The story goes that Buckskin Frank Leslie used to stand his wife May against a wall and shoot bullets in an outline around her body—something that writer Walter Noble Burns called “The Silhouette Girl” in his book Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest. It sounds pretty crazy, even for a noted marksman like Leslie.  But the fact of the matter is, there’s no evidence that the couple—wh


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