Who were the most dangerous gunmen in the Old West? Kerry Creech Lake City, Florida I don’t doubt some deadly and dangerous gunfighters have been lost to history, but here are six men you wouldn’t want to mess with: 1. John Wesley Hardin killed his first man at age 15, and may have killed as many as 50. The “terror from Texas” usually ranks as the number one bad man on every historian’s list. 2. Killin’ Jim Miller, a lawman-turned-assassin who ambushed most of his victim


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