Zwing Hunt—yes, that was probably his real name—ran with the Cochise County Cow-boys during their heyday. It turned out to be his undoing.
In March 1882, he and a pal tried to rob a mining office in Charleston (photo). Things went bad; a mining engineer was killed and the outlaws fled. A sheriff’s posse caught up with them, and Hunt was wounded and captured. He soon escaped jail, helped
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