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Shoot the Chief

by | Mar 30, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Harry Love
Harry Love is best known for tracking down California outlaw Joaquin Murrieta. But he had other adventures.  After a stint in the army, in the late 1840s, he was a dispatch rider, carrying letters, newspapers and more across the Southwest. He and a companion were in northern Mexico in September 1848 when they were attacked by Comanches. Things looked dire until Love shot and killed the Indian leader; the


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