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Slaughter

by | Sep 12, 2009 | Inside History

Texas John Slaughter vs The Jack Taylor Gang
June 7, 1888 Daybreak finds Cochise County Sheriff Texas John Slaughter, his deputy Burt Alvord, Tesana Lucerio and an unnamed hispanic posse member sneaking up on a camp of suspected train robbers in the Whetstone Mountains west of Tombstone, Arizona. As the posse crawls into position some 50 yards from a makeshift corral where the outlaws are bedded down, the sheriff yells, â€


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