Pink Higgins

Like most Texas cattlemen, John Pinckney Calhoun Higgins, was mighty handy with a gun and was not a man to trifle with. He’s not exactly a household name among gunfighters but killed more men than most of the famous shootists. In various shoot outs on both sides of the Mexican border he gunned down more than a dozen men. These were hard men and it took men with the bark still on to survive. To quote Louis L’Amour, men so tough “they wore out their clothes from the inside first.” Pink Hig