sutton-taylor feud Archives

The Bloody Trail of Bill Cox His victims included Texas feudists and NM dignitaries.

by Mark Boardman | May 21, 2021

On September 19, 1876, Bill Cox and several men shot to death Dr. Phillip Brassell and his son George near Yorktown, Texas. The incident was tied to...

Go West, Young Man! The Holliday connection, from Georgia to Texas.

by Mark Boardman | May 19, 2021

Phillip Brassell was a doctor in Fayette County, Georgia in the years after the Civil War. And he was sick--tuberculosis, made worse by the climate....

A Family Affair What are the connections between the Wild Bunch, the Sutton-Taylor Feud, and Pat Garrett?

by Mark Boardman | May 6, 2021

O.C. “Deaf Charlie” Hanks is noted as a rider with the Wild Bunch, notably helping in the Wagner, Montana train robbery in July 1901. He was killed...