Who was William Preston Longley?
Jonathan Smith
Rodenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
“Wild Bill” Longley had a reputation—which he helped build—as one of the deadliest gunfighters. But he was racist, unpredictable, ruthless and quick-tempered. In most cases, the native Texan’s victims were blacks.
Longley bragged he’d killed 32 men. But Rick Miller, author of Bloody Bill Longley, documented only five: “Green Evans (a former slave on his way to visit a relative), Wilson Anderson (
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