10 DEADLIEST Gunslingers In The History Of OLD WEST, here goes channel fans vote..
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Annie Oakley was hardly a native of the Old West. She lived in Ohio until she began preforming in Wild West Shows around the turn of the century.
Glad I found this channel. Holliday is my personal favorite. Hands down. That being said, the baddest dude n the Old West is none other than John Wesley Hardin. Absolute zero contest. 💯
He was ranked number two in the day behind Bill longley. They met one time and John Wesley told Bill longley I came simply to pay my respects.
I like holiday too even though the movie got it wrong on Johnny Ringo. Murder buckskin Frank Wesley is in all probability the killer of Ringo. It can be proven that doc Holliday was 700 miles away at the time and Wyatt Earp was 600 mi away. In the wild west there was absolutely no way to get 700 mi in 2 days. Any way it can be proven that Johnny Ringo was shot when he was drunk and passed out. Billy Breckenridge came upon Johnny Ringo on the trail who was so drunk he was practically helpless. He tried to get Ringo to go with him but Ringo was drunk and stubborn. About a mile further down the trail he came upon buckskin Frank Leslie who admitted he was looking for Ringo. Because Billy Breckenridge knew that Ringo had backed buckskin Leslie down after they started drinking as friends. In other words they had words and Frank Leslie was a known killer. A few years later he murdered his live-in girlfriend. He got very friendly with the prison guard and told him admitted I came upon Johnny Ringo sleeping and passed out so I shot him. I took some of his hair as a souvenir. Now that 100% matches the crime scene. It was not all that uncommon to take hair from a known badass. They took a lot of John Wesley Hardin here, they took some of Bill longley's the most dangerous man in Texas at the time. They took some of wild Bill hickok's and Harvey Logan and I am sure there were others. It was quite coming to take a lock of hair in those days. Buckskin Frank Leslie despite being a crack shot and a fast gunman would have in no way attempted to have a gunfight with Johnny Ringo. When Johnny Ringo left the bar he was facing buckskin Leslie the entire time and he said if you want to pull your gun bullet I'm not going to give you my back. Lesley told him I have no intention of pulling we were drinking as friends. No one knows what started the fight. Ringo was known to be very aggressive especially with his own kind. Throughout all the laughs and backslapping they look for a change in the man's mood every time he set down to drink with them. Now that included doc Holliday.
Dylan's song is a terrific tribute!
Hmmmmm Really...
I don't know, Harden was just as likely to shoot you in the back, or while you are sleeping.
Time stamps
0:25 Doc Holiday
4:07 Johnny Ringo
6:52 Bass Reeves
10:06 Buckskin Frank
14:03 Porter Rockwell
17:30 Annie Oakley
20:12 Bill Longley
23:30 Bat Masterson
25:53 The Sundance Kid
28:34 Jesse James
Annie Oakley's presence and Billy the Kid's absence on this list are both puzzling. Annie was a sharpshooter and quite famous, that much is true, but she did not kill anyone as far as we know, so her being called one of the DEADLIEST GUNSLINGERS is very strange indeed.
Agree
John Wesley Hardin was probably the deadliest killer in the West
How about John Wesley Harden
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Your list didn't include Wild Bill Hickok and he was a hellva gunslinger!
How does being a good shot make Annie Oakley a gunslinger? She was just a sharp shooter. She never killed anybody in a gun battle.
Makes nice change
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Cause is because she knew how to 'SLING' not only 6 shooters but rifles and shotguns...😮 You just don't get it. You should have asked why they didn't advertise she a gal gunslinger. Most are makes. Hope you figure out your dillema she was a fantastic gunslinging b I t c h ! Lol
You need kill no one be labeled a gunslinger
It all depends the way you look at it !
She definitely was a "gunslinger" she could sling all kinds of guns and was an expert with them. As for the word "deadly" ? Well I don't know if I would put her in that category. 🤷
Annie Oakley is a fascinating study, but she was no "deadly gunslinger," as the tittle suggests. Lot's of people can shoot at a stationary target that'll never shoot back at them (and they know that), and that makes all the difference in the world. No shade on Annie, but I think in this case at least, Annie was just a diversity hire to garner viewership.
Jeff KIdder Arizona ranger. Not many practiced a fast draw and expended thousands of rounds of ammo like Kidder did. Rumored by rangers to be capable to draw and fire while being covered by guns. Bat Masterson was smart. He avoided many gun fights by holding shooting contests to demonstrate how accurate he could shoot. The gun used by Ringo in the TV series actually existed. It was an upgraded version of a cap-and-ball french pistol which fired a shotgun shell from the center of the barrel. Ringo was not known to own one. Clay Allison? Reputed to be the first fast gun. Commodore Perry Owen? Only man known to have taken down four men in a gunfight.
Perry Owen only man to take down 4 People in a gun fight? Not having it, Clint Eastwood took 5 down after getting a shave at the barbers! 🤷
Calling Ringo "lesser known" is down right inaccurate. Even disrespectful. All the same, I truly enjoyed this video. Well made. Well narrated. Thank You for your efforts.💯
There was a TV show dedicated to Johnny Ringo in the 50's. It had a cool Calypso theme song which I think was written and performed by the star of the show.
When my dad who was born in 1927 was a kid growing up on a small rural property outside of Little Falls Minnesota he and his brothers befriended an old man that was a neighbor who they said was in his 80's or 90's at the time (mid to late 1930's) and the old guy would have one of them drive his old touring car while he rode in the back seat. This old guy would have his old 6 shooter and holster on and would stand up in the back of the moving touring car as it drove along and do a quick draw and shoot crows out of the air. The old guy would only say that he had spent time out west before the turn of the century and was known by a different name but would never say what that name was. He died before 1940 without anyone knowing who he really was or if what he had said was true or if it was just a tall tale he told kids, but from what my dad and his brothers all said and agreed on was that they truly Believe the old guy had actually been a gunslinger who wanted to live his last years in peace and didn't want his past known to anyone or which side of the law he had been on. But they all agreed that they felt he had been on the wrong side of the law and probably had old wanted posters for him out west. Nobody will ever know who that old guy was and my dad and uncles who had known him are all gone now so they can't even be shown pictures of various old gunslingers who just disappeared to see if any of them resembled a younger version of the old guy. It would be interesting to know who he was and what his past was.
Great story! He must've been quite a brilliant shot -- crows from the sky? Wow!
Wow, cool story.
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Where's: Wild Bill Hickok / Tom Horn / John Wesley Hardin / Jim Miller / Frank Hamer / J. "King" Fisher / Ben Thompson ???
Make a video!
Tom Horn , finely portrayed by Steve McQueen.....in his last film.
John Wesley Hardin got killed by Silas Grieves 😅
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John Wesley Hardin Was
Killed By John Selman Sr,
While He Was Rolling Dice
At The Bar, In The Acme Saloon
In El Paso, Texas...
I could see Doc putting a end to Jonny over the argument they had. I can definitely say Doc wasn't scared. Being faced with death already.
John Wesley Hardin was #1
Several years ago while researching our family history one relative created a book with related stories and one ancestor it turned out that he was a horseback Rodin train robber. Though I don’t condone criminal activity it still is fascinating
My ancestor was the one that designed the Titanic and the Olympic his name was Thomas Andrews !
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Annie Oakley was a shootist, not a shooter, definitely not an outlaw. You should have added the baddest of them all, John Wesley Hardin, he knew left over 40 men, one for snoring to loud!!
Thank you for sharing.
Sam Bass is a legendary lawman in American history.
God bless
When was Sam Bass a lawman? Serious question.
Sam Bass was an outlaw. Don't think he was ever a lawman. Bass Reeves was the lawman in this video.
The reason Bass Reeves went and arrested his son was because he was the only one who would bring him in alive.
Actually, the deadliest was John Wesley Hardin; even Longley complained about Hardin killing more than he had and not getting a death sentence.
yeah John Wesley Hardin , whom Dylan wrote a song about, allegedly killed 44 men , and threatened to kill another bloke , but the father of next victim heard the threat and just shot Hardin dead , familiarity breeds contempt ,cheers
Correction.....Doc Holidays mother passed away from TB when Doc was 15 years old and not that he was diagnosed with TB at 15.... I don't think Doc knew till years later that he'd contracted it from his mother....I believe there was another sibling of Docs that also passed away from TB.
How does Annie Oakley fit the subject matter "DEADLIEST Gunslingers"..? She was neither. Besides that, great video. Thanks
You missed james butler "wild bill" hickok.
Yes he was a straight up killer
They Also Missed, "Killer" Jim Miller, Who Killed Pat Garrett...
They Also Missed John Wesley
Hardin, He Was The Worst Of
The Worst...
@@geraldotto3145 Hickok was one of the good guys in tough times,worked for the underground railroad and generally tried to do the right thing.
Most historians consider wild bill the deadliest even though he only killed about 6 men
I was born and raised, more than 75 years ago, in West Texas. Live there now. Read about Adobe Walls all my life. First heard about it in school in Texas History class. Seen it in movies. etc. Billy Dixon became famous there for killing an Indian over a mile away with his Sharps buffalo rifle. This video is the first time I ever heard that Bat Masterson was there. The things that can discovered only on the Internet is amazing, don't you think ? I swear it's almost like magic when new facts appears about old stories.
6:41 That Dell comic cover has Ringo holding a very strange revolver. Note that you see three cartridge holes on the inner side of the cylinder - leaving room for at least five or maybe even six more cartridges! I never heard of an 8 or 9 shot pistol - not back when favorite cartridges started at about .32 to .45 cal. guess it might have been a 9-shot .22, but not with that large gun barrel.
There was a 12 shot.36 caliber pistol
YEs, they made large barreled .22lr's. And several 7,8,and 9 shot pistols over the years.
Back in the day when most guns were handmade, lots of folks made just about every kind of weird gun that could be thought up.
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Like other comments have mentioned, the lack of John Wesley Hardin on this list means the video cannot be taken seriously, not to mention that Annie Oakley was not a "deadly gunslinger", and her nickname was "Little Sureshot", not "Little Shortshort" or whatever the caption read. Some of the anachronistic unrelated photos are ridiculous, leaving viewers confused as to what is real and what is not real, whether a photo shown is the subject or someone else, even though the naive narrator begs us to "trust me". Makers of this video need to do more research to avoid mis-informing viewers.
The Internet is rife with misinformation. It's like an old fashion library where the fiction and nonfiction books were all piled together.
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My father asked me, the oldest child and only child alive, if i wanted that marvelous house i grew up in, to be left to me at his death. I said no. Sell it and get tour money. You've educated me, and I'll be able to pay my own way. And he did! And so did I.
God bless the child who's got his own.
Somehow John Wesley Hardin and wild Bill Hickock are missing? Hmmm🤔
Ive seen a bunch of comments about skipping Hickok. But there's no way this overlooked Hardin.
No Wild Bill Hickok or John Wesley Hardin or King Fisher or Jim "killer" Miller ? Wow !
It's Holliday, with two "L"s. Also, the gunfight was not AT the O.K. Corral, the shootout actually took place in a narrow lot on the side of C. S. Fly's photography studio on Fremont Street, six doors west of the O.K. Corral's rear entrance. 3 men, Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury were killed, Billy Claiborne and Ike Clanton ran away. Wyatt was unharmed, Doc, Virgil, and Morgan were wounded. A couple of good books to check out are "1876: The Year of The Gun" by Steve Wiegand and "The Summer of 1876" by Chris Wimer. Between them, they cover Both Bills (Wild and Hickok), Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse. Good reads!
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Doc Holiday wasn't really a gun slinger. He was just lucky.
Public sentiment in former Confederate states had not turned against the James brothers. After Jesse's murder
Frank turned himself in. Frank was prosecuted but juries wouldn't convict him.
Funny thing is about Frank turning himself in he turned himself in and said I'll do it under one condition and they asked what that was he said you let me bury my brother and they said what if I refuse and the legend has it that he said I'll kill you well I guess they believed him now there are many Outlaw deaths that are questionable that maybe they were killed at all white people said the one that I would dispute the most would be Jesse James I think the whole thing was staged so Jesse can keep on living in obscurity however if it is true that he was killed by the Fords I don't really blame them because it is known that Jesse wanted to quit the outlaw I brought to hit home his current gang members individually add Jesse would take him out on a ride to show him off the land and well they would never come back alive
Interesting video and great narration, but I do have some issues. These deadliest or best gunslingers videos are often subjective and sometimes just comparisons. Since there are gunfighters, who reportedly killed more men in less time in personal combats, these brief documentaries are usually popularity contests. As questioned, Annie Oakley wasn't a gunslinger or gunfighter and she certainly wasn't deadly because she wasn't known to have killed anyone. While most of the so-called gunslingers in this example killed people in more than one encounter, several (Holliday, Ringo, Reeves, Leslie, Sundance Kid, etc.) were apparently not as prolific as often claimed as some of their killings are uncorroborated by additional sources. I don't think most Wild West fans would even consider Jesse James a gunslinger because after the Civil War, he seems to have fought few people as equals. James is mostly known as a bank and train robber, who shot and killed unarmed civilians with his gang. Personal Munchausenism, newspapers, dime novels and early films elevated many Wild West killers to the stereotyped gunslinger of Hollywood, but that does mean that the tropey gun notches were factually deserved.
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Annie is one of the few whose prowess with a firearm was corroborated before crowds of spectators. Something I read had a quote from her saying, as a girl, she had to get proficient, and quick. Bullets were expensive and town was a-ways off.
@@debracaples9431 I think most would agree, but Annie wasn't deadly. She was friendly, so she lived to shoot peacefully target practice another day. I can personally attest that someone shooting back, drastically affects your accuracy. 🤠
Excellent video…👍🏻
Thank you this history lesson!!
Good stuff bud.
You need a longer list to include a lot of people who didn't make this list but should be known by people who don't know our history very well. Like most Americans under 20
Mace Bowman & Clay Allison were two shootists that should be on this list.
I’m pretty good with historical facts, not all of these are true. This seems more like opinions rather than accurate information. I may as well be added to this list too.
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You left out 2 of the top 3. no1 James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok no2 John Peter Ringo no3 John Wesley Hardin.
I guess whomever put this video together had no interest in getting it historically correct.
Obviously. Not a guess.
Wow, what a great video! Well narrated, storyboarded and video edited. Thank you for this entertaining and educational video.
Subtitles are very bad. Annoyingly bad.
Possible entertaining to some, I'm not so sure about educational.
Johnny Ringo? Didn't even get the last name right..Ringgold as i recall. Also semi disowned by his family
Guys this list is bunk without John Wesley Hardin. Hardin is that sixgun killer all movies try to make the others. Infamous. He also learned and passed the BAR while in prison becoming a good lawyer once released. And, he died the shooters death. Educate yourselves brothers, John Wesley Hardin is the gunslinger.
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I’m stunned you don’t mention wild bill Hickok. You use the term gunfighter, but the only person to ever have had a documented old west type gunfight in the street was Bill Hickok. He was in fact a legend in his own time. Known and feared throughout the west as a fearless lawman, and a deadly shot. The gunfight took place when Hickok was gambling and lost his fathers watch to another gambler. He told him he’d get the money to buy the watch back, but warned him not to be seen wearing the watch in public. Apparently the guy wasn’t very bright because that’s exactly what he did. Hickok saw him and stepped into the street and told him to remove the watch or pull his gun. According to eyewitnesses and newspaper reports he let the guy draw first and drew his weapon and shot him through the heart. It was ruled self defense because the other guy drew first. It is the one, and only movie style gunfight recorded in the old west. Further, as the Marshall of Abilene, Kansas he got into a night time shoot out and killed three cowboys who were firing guns in violation of the town ordinance requiring all guns be checked In to the town marshal till the owner left town. When he told them to drop their guns they opened fire on him. Sadly, his deputy Mike Williams came running up to help Hickok but approached from behind him. Hickok spun and fired killing Williams thinking him to be another cowboy about to shoot him in the back. The Abilene paper wrote that Hickok ordered every one off the streets and wept over the body of his dead deputy. Again he was cleared due to the shooting being a unintentional accident. He then resigned as Marshall of Abilene and went to deadwood, South Dakota where he would be shot in the back of the head while playing poker. He always sat with his back to the wall but the man in that chair refused to change places with him thus leaving him exposed. When he died he was holding a full house of three eights and two aces. Known ever since as the deadman’s hand. His legend as a lawman and gunman was so great that he was known in newspapers as far as New York City. No other man in the old west was more renowned with a gun, or more feared than Bill Hickok. He killed at least ten men that are recorded and probably a few no one knew about. The difference with Hickok was that he never killed men except in self defense. Of all the men you mentioned the only one, with the exception of Bass Reeves, actually lived up to his reputation. You also left off clay Allison, and John Wesley Hardin. Both of which were more dangerous than any men on your list, especially Wes Hardin.
Dead man's hand isn't a full house. It's two black aces and two black eights, with an unknown fifth card. Many people say the fifth card is the queen of hearts, while others say it was a five, nine or jack of diamonds.
Bass was not forced to join the Confederate Army. His owner told him that if he would fight for the Confederacy he would get his freedom.
I Have 12 "Kills" From Iraq &
Afganistan, So Does That
Make Me A "Gunslinger" ???
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RIP TO THE REAL LONE RANGER BASS REEVES. THE BEST LAWMAN EVER.😊
" Hurry Sundown "
Tattooed to me Sundown.
It's a great video, but where is Wild Bill Hickok. I saw his picture, but no mention that I recall.
"Big Nose Kate" also had a fling with Sheriff Behan. She apparently got around...
Annie & her husband seems to have had the best life of all of them.
Wild Bill Hickock was the deadliest gun slinger who ever lived. John Wesley Hardin was a great gun slinger as well.
I'm glad Bass Reeves is finally getting his due...
Doc holiday was from griffin Georgia and got his degree from Penn state in dentistry
Yes, I know who Johnny Ringo was. I was in Johnny Ringo's bar almost everyday in Tombstone.
What about Mysterious Dave Mather, one of my relatives, along with Johnny Ringo!
Annie was a Sharpshooter who never killed any one .She however after World War ! state she wished she had missed and hit Kaiser Wilhelm when she shot a lit Cigarette out of his mouth.Can you imagine how deadly Annie would have been if she became a Professional Killer ? .If I remember she once shot and hit over 4,000 glass balls thrown in the air consecutively
@ 0:42 is NOT Doc Holliday but Tombstone entrepreneur John Escapule. His descendants still live there.
Definitely.😊
Annie Oakley?? Uh, no.
Bad Tom should be on this list and it’s just crazy that Billy the Kid isn’t!
I believe you are wrong about the name Sitting Bull gave her. It was I believe "Little Sure Shot" which also makes a lot more sense.
Apparently, Doc Holiday was stunnungly fast and exremely accurate but didnt kill until th OK Coralll and the following revenge ride. He, apparently fired the shot that killed Ringo as Earp missed.
John Wesly Hardin is at the top of any real list. Clay Allison has to rank higher than most of these.
According to Time Life book on documented old west killers . Forget the tales and legends , The most cold blooded , murdering psycho with the most eyewitness`s was Billy The Kid .
A couple of things ----1)I notice you you do not have the Deacon Miller here. 2) under Bat Masterson you run a photo of Sundance and Etta Place .3)Tom Horn is missing 4)there is evidence that Butch and Sundance died in the late 1930s or 1940s.
I have never heard of some of these guys
What about John Wesley Hardin?
John Ringo's father most likely committed suicide based on the description of his death. Since mental illness and suicide are known to run in families, the theory that John did likewise certainly makes sense. Doc Holiday was in Colorado at the time.
There's still Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hickok.. and Wyatt Earp..
I didn't know half em!
Wrong photos were often used. Annie Oakley ? Really?
Plus, he's a sure shot, he doesn't walk around killing folks
What...no William H. Bonney nor James Butler Hickok? Are you kidding me?😆
I guess your list is simply, an opinion not documented.
too many inaccuracies. And too many missing killers. And Annie Oakly should not be in the list at all.
There is another channel not related to the wild west which heavily uses this background music, can't remember which one.
In the west, a man became a gunfighter because he got into difficulties and managed to survive....then he got known as a dangerous man....usually he then practised more with a gun because his survival depended on it....
Finally, no one wanted the reputation of being a gunfighter because, unfortunately, it meant that you were a target, and usually, it allowed people to shoot you in any way they could, and they never faced any penalty for killing a known gunfighter....
Where is the case of one of the men they didn't talk about on this list killing Jim Miller he killed and became an outlaw because he was good at it and he was a psychopath and Pure Evil
Wyatt Earp and all his friends were not even in the state when Ringo died.
Whot abut Billy the kid🤠
I would argue with a mormon going to heaven. Modern day cult. Not buffalo they are bison
Yes, but most people call them buffalo, even back in the 19th century.
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John Wesley Hardin was the fastest gun. Jesse James had a very slow draw and even worse accuracy. Emptied his gun at the tellers in one robbery and missed with every shot.
Ringo was NOT killed by Holiday, Earp or any of that gang. He committed suicide after receiving a letter disowning him by his most beloved sister in California. He said as much to Frank Leslie, who was his poker buddy, and began drinking profusely. He would go out and ride by himself, something his friends warned him about. His closest friends were the ones who claimed he was on a suicidal drinking bender. He most likely lost the handle on his horse while camping for the night, having dirty & worn shirt strips tied to his feet when found dead (his boots were found tied to his mount later on). Probably very thirsty, without a mount and already inconsolably despondent, he ended his life with one shot to the temple. His face was blackened at the close proximity of the blast. Coincidentaly, Ringo & his father died from their own guns, though his father William's death was accidental.
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We have visited the grave sight of Johhny Ringo on our channel.
There were far deadly gunslingers than all the ones listed here. Some were not even gunslingers like Annie and Sundance. The Sundance kid was an outlaw but he wasn't a killer and neither was Butch. Butch killed 1 man but he wasn't a notorious gunslinger. This was a waist of my time
Doc was not a formidable gunslinger. He was a diminutive/sickly man who was known to strike first at any sign of trouble. I say this not to disparage the man, as I am a big fan of the fellow Georgian, but to keep the account true.
the baddest gunslingers are the ones youll never know about
Maybe you messed up a little..but real nice video if i watched it
0.42 NOT Doc Holiday.
FIRST of all, the term "gunslinger" did not exist anywhere on the frontier or in the Old West. Never....ever. The first reference to "gunslinger" did not appear in the American press until 1921. This is a no-brainer for any actual researcher.
I enjoyed the video but it's loaded with errors and photographs that have nothing to do with the commentary. By the way, Annie Oakley was not nicknamed Little Shoreshot. She was called Little Sureshot and she was not a gunslinger and this video is supposed to be about gunslingers. Just another error. Doc Holiday did not shoot "many" people. The best estimate is that he killed only two men and he never shot at opponent's arms. That claim is ridiculous.
What, no Billy the kid?
Billy The Kid's true name was not William Bonney but Henry McCarty.
What no billy the kid, aka William Bonnie
Annie Oakley was not a Gunslinger. Belle Starr should be here instead.
They didn't list John Westly Hardin he killed over 40 men and he was a deadly shot. Most all the men he shot were killed because he put one right in the heart. He actually killed a man for snoring in another hotel room firing through the wall. He was murdered years later after spending many years in prison where he got his law degree. His body count was higher but he said he didn't count the N word and Mexicans. That was his quote and he actually did have face to face gun fights against single men in the middle of the town not dry gulching like many so called gunmen. They called him the Black Heart of Texas. He was a bad ass that men didn't want to go against had a fast draw and a ability far better than the rest to hit a small target. Wild Bill Hickok could shoot like that until his eyes went bad and they both died by someone shooting them in the back of the head while in a saloon. Both the shooters had lost relatives to the men revenge is a dish better eaten cold.
I think the two legends met at one point, or so Hardin claimed. Hardin then claims Hickock had the fear in him just from Hardins name. If I remember Hickock comes to disarm him, settles for "just behave young man". Hardin then tucks his own manhood into his sock and has a peaceful night.
Yes John Wesley Hardin should be on this list another interesting fact about him he had a cousin named Sally and she was married to another guy who should be on this list maybe even number one killing Jim Miller I'm 54 years old and probably until I was in my 40s I never knew who he was but then I read about him add song episode of gunslingers and let me tell you he was Pure Evil and if you believe his boasting before they hung him he killed 51 men so that means Sally with two people in real life with cousin and her husband who together kill the reported over 100 men ironically hardened studied law and what are the people he was going to take it a client with none other than Jim Miller
Missed a lot of the real dangerous men
There seems to be some debate if Annie Oakley belongs on this list..Ill try to clear it up..The term gunslinger has been used interchangably between exhibition shooters and gunfighters since old West times..But the term gunfighter has not.Annie Oakley was deffinately not a gunfighter.Im sure she was quite capable of being one if needed and im sure living during the times she lived in it may have potentialy been a skill she had to employ at times..But either way she wasnt known as a gunfighter and gunfighter is the key word here.
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Annie Oakley????
John Holiday , William Bonnie
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