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

March 2014
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- Forrest Fenn, 2014 True Westerner Award Winner!
- Old Tucson’s 75th
- Autry’s Pathway to the Past
- Winchester Warrior
- American Gardens of Eden
- The Best Historical Roadside Markers You Have to See
- Following the Old Spanish Trail
- 10 Face-to-Face, Stand-Up Gunfights
- Jack London’s Alaska
- So who really killed Billy the Kid?
- What were authentic ranch houses like?
- Who were the most dangerous gunmen in the Old West?
- I enjoyed reading the November article on Soiled Doves, but nothing was mentioned about contraception. What did they do to prevent pregnancy?
- Dave Stamey
- March 2014 Events
- Tombstone, Arizona
- You Butter Believe It!
- March Madness
- The Last Bonanza Farm
- Beginning of the End
- Rough Drafts 3/14
- Ann Kirschner’s Favorite Reads
- Shadow on the Mesa
- Montana Divided and United
- A Ranch Woman’s Life
- The Real and Imagined West
- The Bronzed West
- An American Tale: Wild Mustangs and the Spirit of a Nation
- Universal’s 40th Discs