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What do you know about Pete Spence, a member of the “Cowboys” of Tombstone?

by | Nov 1, 2007 | Inside History

What do you know about Pete Spence, a member of the “Cowboys” of Tombstone? Bob Wood Hugo, Minnesota Pete Spence was born Elliot Larkin Ferguson in 1850 in Louisiana. In 1875, he joined a company of Texas Rangers and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He eventually showed up in Arizona using the name Peter Spencer and became associated with the “Cowboys” in Cochise County. In the aftermath of the feud between the Cowboys and the law and order crowd, led by Virgil and Wyatt Earp, Spen


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