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—who were married in the mid 1880s—tried any such trick. It likely was a concoction of Burns’ creative mind.
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Teacher and historian Douglas Brode has published studies such as Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race…
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.