You can argue all day about which Old West town was the roughest, toughest and wildest of them all.
Tombstone? Maybe.
Dodge City? Entirely possible.
Deadwood? Could be.
But historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell made a strong case for Las Vegas, New Mexico. No other town, he wrote, harbored a more disreputable bunch of desperadoes and outlaws than the little burg tucked up in the northeastern region of New Mexico.
HISTORIC EVENT
Hyman G. Neill (better known as Hoodoo Brown
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