Who was Arizona Territory’s most notorious outlaw?
Edwin Smith
Phoenix, Arizona
That’s a tough one.
Some of the most famous, including John Ringo, were more myth than real. “Curly Bill” Brocius’s reputation, like Ringo’s, is overinflated—but he was the well-known leader of the Cow-boy faction in Cochise County.
Other notorious outlaws in their day included Augustine Chacon, a cold-blooded killer who came along a few years after the O.K. Corral gunfight, and Bill Smith, whose 1
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