The outlaws of Cochise County during the 1880s were a reckless breed and the fact that Curly Bill was one of their leaders says something of his toughness. No known photos of him exist but Billy Breakenridge described him as “fully six feet tall, with black curly hair, freckled face, and well built.” Newspapers referred to him as the terror of Cochise Cou


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