What can you tell me about Wild Bunch associate Laura Bullion?
Darrell Clements
Memphis, Tennessee
Laura had a hardscrabble life. She had flings with many men and among her trades, worked in Fannie Porter’s bordello in San Antonio. She fell in love with Will Carver of the Wild Bunch but he dumped her for another woman. She then took up with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick, the “Tall Texan.” Ben was one of the train robbers at the Wagner, MT holdup in July 1901.
She and Ben went on a spending spr

True West February 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Women of the Alamo
- Who Was Allowed to Wear Feathered Bonnets and What Did They Signify?
- What History Has Taught Me: Alan Rockman
- What Can You Tell Me About Wild Bunch Associate Laura Bullion?
- Grand Canyon’s Grand Meals
- Western Events for February 2019
- Oregon at 160
- Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch
- Battle of the Plaza
- Hollywood’s Six-gun Fakery
- Were any Arizona Rangers Involved in Gunfights in Mexico?
- A Noose and a Scoop
- The Oatman Party was near Arizona’s Painted Rock Petroglyph Site when they were Massacred in 1851. Could that have been a Factor in the Attack?
- What Were Frontier Dentists Able to Do Medically Besides Pull Teeth and Make Primitive Dentures?