Some believe John Miller was hired to assassinate Pat Garrett. How many men did John Miller kill during his career and how did he finally die? Gerald Schaefer Abeerdeen, Washington You must mean the hired assassin, sometime lawman, Jim Miller, aka “Killing Jim Miller.”He was a bad one. It’s said his first victims were an old couple who he murdered in his home when he was only eight years old. After adding several more notches to his gun, he got religion and became a devout Methodist, earni

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus