What happened to Old West gunman “Mysterious” Dave Mather?
Johnny “Arizona” Crawley
Salem, Oregon
Well, that is a mystery.
Dave Mather was born in Connecticut in 1851. When he was in his teens, he ran away to sea, but decided he was better on dry land. He made his way to Dodge City, Kansas, in the early 1870s. Over the next decade or so, he ran cattle, hunted buffalo, gambled, pulled off some robberies and played hired gun to powerful interests. He ran with the likes of Wyatt E
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