Martin Mrose is best known for being a romantic rival of John Wesley Hardin—and of being killed in El Paso in 1895. But a decade earlier, Mrose had a run-in with another man of infamy.
Mrose was foreman of a Colorado ranch in the summer of 1885. He and some of the boys went to a bar owned and operated by the man who killed Jesse James, Bob Ford. Mrose apparently wasn’t too impressed; he took a run at Ford, who skedaddled as quick as he could.
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Mark Boardman is the features editor for True West Magazine as well as the editor of The Tombstone Epitaph. He also serves as pastor for Poplar Grove United Methodist Church in Indiana.
