Deadliest Gunslingers of the Old West
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- One thing the Old West didn’t lack was men who were ready for a gunfight. Men such as these were called gunmen, pistoleers, and shootists; the term gunslinger is only a Hollywood creation. They may not have dressed like Clint Eastwood, with a holster slung low on the hips, but these gunmen made names for themselves nonetheless. Here are 10 of the most well-known.
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Well done, I had enough time to read the commentary before you moved on. That is always a good thing.
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@@p.j.4738 no my captions cover up the words. I am hearing impaired.
I stopped watching it is so boring waiting for scenes to change
Damn i played rdr 2 too much.
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Wild Bill's estimation of killing over a hundred men is widely accepted as exaggeration on his part. As is Billy the Kid's 21 kill count, which is more estimated to be 4 to 6 (most being in self defense).
Meanwhile, people like Hardin and Miller are reported to have had body counts in the low 40's. Hardin even rumored to have killed a man in a hotel for snoring too loudly, and Miller's first kills were his grandparents when he was a child.
As for Wyatt Earp, before the OK Corral and Vendetta Ride, he was most famous for pistol whipping troublemakers rather than shooting them.
The John Wesley Hardin snoring incident was blown out of proportion a guy was snoring and keeping him awake so he fired his gun and it ricocheted to the next room and killed the guy once he found out he did it he said Hickok will never forgive me for this and he ran
The story I read said Hardin was annoyed by the snoring in the next room, and fired a shot through the wall to silence the offender. However, the man fell asleep sitting up and the shot that was to go over the bed, hit the man in the back of the head, killing him.
Years later, Hardin was asked about the men he killed for snoring. His answer was something along the lines of "...people say I've killed 10 men for snoring, it ain't true. I've only killed one."
What made Miller kill his grandparents?
@@susanmccormick6022 No reason, if I recall. Did it just to see if he could.
Billy the Kid was killed on the Pete Maxwell ranch, not in Fort Sumner
Looks like Wyatt Earp only one to grow old lucky man to have survived it all
jenbill1602 In all of the gunfights he was in, he never got shot or even hurt.
Wild Bill Longley. Hung him twice. Ex husband's great great uncle.
I find it hard to believe that wild bill killed one hundred people.
That was unverified. He liked to brag.
Texas seems to be well represented in this group lol
The Texans were extra pissed off on account of not having air conditioning in those days.
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Where's John "Doc" Holliday?
Some say, that the Member or members of The Ike Clanton gang, we're the only people that Doc killed.....??????
If anyone knows that is alive now, It's Carl From In Range t.v.
I thought the same
Holiday was made faster in Hollywood
Only in the movies.no record he killed anybody till Tombstone though he stabbed men in Texas who. Recovered
You should have included Porter Rockwell on this list. As a marshal,
legend holds he killed over 100 outlaws, and verifiable deaths were
counted at around 35, so these numbers would make him much more 'deadly'
than almost all the gunfighters mentioned here.
Indeed, he's also known as the "The Destroying Angel of Mormondom", from what legends have say he's invulnerable to bullets too, but whether the bullets missed him or failed to get through is not certain as the stories of what have happened have been exaggerated to some degree. Many people tried to kill him but all failed. It was age that claimed him.
Agreed. the only man to kill more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Doc Holladay, Tom Horn, and Batt masterson . . . combined. Whats more,,, he was never killed by any man either,, died of health problems.
A man so mean he once shot a guy just for snoring, for Christ's sake.
Wyatt' brothers didn't take kindly towards Doc whose father was a Confederate Officer
Porter Rockwell was a good guy, Federal Marshal who is never mentioned
*You forgot Tacitus Killgore, Aiden o Malley, and Jim Milton.*
Mikasa Ackerman and Deputy Dog
and other people i never heard of
And
Leviticus Cornwall
And the One shot kid
And rip van winkle
The most prolific gunfighter of the old west was Porter Rockwell.. How did he not make the list???
Because he as a mormon [avenging angel ] a paid killer for the Mormon church
What does mormon have to do with it? He killed outlaws and was a marshal.
Anyone who doesn't include Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan on their list of top gunfighters doesn't know what he's talking about. Unlike some of the other back shooters on this list, Curry fought it out face to face with over a dozen posses in his career as a bank and train robber; killing nine lawmen by himself or participating in other shootouts with other members of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang that killed four more deputies or police. He also made a point of calling out and killing a Utah sheriff and his deputy in a showdown after they had killed Logan's friend and mentor "Flat Nose" Curry. Among the many bounty hunters and lawmen Logan evaded or outsmarted during his decade as wanted man was Tom Horn. Although it is likely he was killed after his last train robbery in 1904, there was a lot of disagreement among his hunters that the suspected train robber killed near Rifle Colorado was in fact the Kid. Other witnesses suggest Logan accompanied Butch and Sundance to South America and participated in at least one of their bank robberies in 1908.
Every time I watch one of these compilations they overlook Texas John Slaughter, his reputation alone was enough to scare outlaws out of his jurisdiction. It was said when he went after horse thieves he always brought back the horses.
They overlook him probably because they have no evidence of him doing such things
Porter Rockwell same,,, and at least 35 kills are documented and 80+ undocumented.
8:28 Sam Bass is such a bad@ss that robbing the Union Pacific gold train for $60,000 made him and his gang decide to rob the Union Pacific gold train for $60,000. 🤣😂 entertaining oopsie.
Oh I forgot to add one of the toughest names from the Jose Wales.
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And what about Bass Reeves? [1838-1910]. Arrested more than 3,000 felons, Shot and killed 14 people in self-defense.
Including his own son what a badass
Not sure which son you’re referring to, ...but...Once, he had to arrest his own son ‘Bennie’ Reeves, who was charged with the murder of his wife. Deputy Marshal Reeves was disturbed and shaken by the incident, but allegedly demanded the responsibility of bringing His own Son to justice. Bennie was eventually tracked and captured, tried, and convicted. He served his time in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas before being released, and reportedly lived the rest of his life as a responsible and model citizen. Being a former slave who was never allowed to attain literacy, he escaped his captor & sought refuge amongst Native American peoples until Emancipation. Having learned several tribal languages he remained illiterate. This is amazing, because Bass memorized all of the information read to him on each Warrant before successfully making every Arrest. Not once did he bring in the wrong man.
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Thank you!!
There were serial killers in the 1800's, but they called them gunslingers
Some only killer enforcing the law or self defense. Serial killers also get some kind of pleasure.
There were actual serials in the 1800s. HH Holmes.....
They seem to shoot others easily when getting into arguments(disagreements).
If I would have done that I would also killed more than 100 men .
If not being killed myself before that.
There's definitely a pattern with these killers.
We now also call them soldiers
@@AngelxVillian
That's what Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano said.
If I would have been in Vietnam I would have gotten a medal for it.
Hahaha.
Sick life.
People should quit fighting wars.
The problem is, those guys reaching position of power are too often not really good guys...
Most of this is pure Hollywood and Ned Buntline myth.
How many people still clicked and watched even though they have watched 1,000s of hrs of documentaries on these men? There are alot that get overlooked though.
I didn't realize the true scope of what Tom Horn had done and been a part of until a few yrs ago when I really began researching him. I always love hearing more about things that happened in the past especially people like this, even if I have heard it before.
what about Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen ? The guy who had a gunfight with Marty Mcfly!
Regarding Jim Miller, he was hanged in Ada, OK with three others, not two. Ada use to sell postcards with the picture of the four hanging in a livery stable. You can also find a book by Weldon Hope, “Four Men Hanging,” which gives an account of the story. Also, Dust Bowl Productions produced a brilliant documentary of the incident.
My husband’s great grandfather was Jessie Jolly West. One of the other men hanged with Jim Miller.
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Thank you for the information.
John Holiday , according to Wyatt Earp , and other witnesses said the good doctor was an expert with a Colt , also historically William Bonny was said to be lightening fast and a deadly with revolver, Billy was not an evil man and I don't think Holiday was either.
Right On! Only God knows & reads the heart ~ "He Lives".... =-) C ya. CJ-4-JC always.
@@carolelizabethjohnson1295 Very well said.
George Horner:Two favs of mine.Along with Jim Younger.All he wanted to do was raise horses & Bob's dream was to own a farm.Cole said if it hadn't been for the war,he might have been somebody."But as it is,I am what I am"They & their families went thru hell,as did many along the border.All wars suck & roll on the day human beings realise it & come of age.
there is one lawman who you forgot to include in your list but I dont blame you because he was not taught to us in schools because I feel he was black...I was raised on the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and all the white cowboys ..Hopalong Cassidy had black cowboys in his movies but in the back ground only....its time we bring the real heroes like Bass Reeves to the forefront and tell his story
no let black history deal with it...
@@edwilson4852stfu, coward. Nobody asked for a worthless piece of ship's opinion, so shut up until someone does. Got it?
He was an amazing man.
I appreciate you taking time out of your life to make this video.
Music , photos , reading I dont mind. Anything about the old west.
I enjoyed it
Wheres arthur morgan!?
Right? I thought John Wesley Hardin looked a little bit like Arthur when he was young. 🤔
That was the first thing crossed my mind, thank you!!! Btw Leeeennyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
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These so-called "gunfighters" were not called gunfighters but pistoleers, gunmen and shootists. The terms gunfighters and gunslingers were unknown in the 19th century, though Bat Masterson used the term as a writer for an NYC newspaper.
No Doc Holiday are you nuts? Fasted gun In the West and you clearly choked.
Didnt he kill johny ringo
He wasn't no daisy at all.
@@NiclasLoof actually I agree with you.... it was wyatt that told the story of doc holiday and I dont think he had a reason to lie....and in a gunfight it is called a 10 past draw....most Hollywood films are full of shit.
Doc Holliday killed more people as a dentist than as a gunfighter. Thus the reason he had to "stop practicing dentistry"
@@cowbyupnow1 He had to stop dentistry because he contracted the Consumption. The Big TB. He was a Lunger.
John Wesley Hardin was the top of the heap; others like Billy the Kid pale in comparison. He did not rob or steal. He married, had children, studied law in prison, wrote his own autobiography, and some how killed @30 people. He was shot in the back because Selman was too cowed to meet him face to face. Bob Dylan's album, John Wesley Harding, pays distorted respects.
He is in the Concordia Cemetery in El Paso TX.
No,, the top of the heap didnt even make this silly unresearched list. Porter Rockwell. 35 documented and confirmed outlaws killed and another 80+ unconfirmed. Nuff said.
5:50 he was with Edgar Ross and Andrew Milton😱😱!!!!
Why my recommend lot of wild west lmao just because i seeing rdr2
I think the official story I read about Wild Bill H- getting shot. He had been Sherriff in another town not too far away & in that capacity killed a gunslinger.The dead man's brother got Wild Bill's name, -found out where he hung out & that was it.
Sam Bass is credited with killing one man. Hardly considered one of the deadliest gunslingers.
As a distant relative, I was raised to believe John Wesley Hardin was known to have killed 44, with others rumored, but not verified. It has been told that JWH by the age of 16yo could empty 2-6 shooters into a 12" tree while riding a fast horse at full gallop toward the tree. As to killing the man for snoring, it was said that JWH yelled more than one warning, through the wall to stop snoring. Truth is known that most Hardin's in my branch are loud snorers. I'm lucky to live in a different time. Now all I'm fearful of is my wife being fed up with my snoring. LOL
clay allison was a great uncle,and like many men of that time he was a hard man and liked his liqouri i have been told since childhood from the 1940's to present,he actually died from a punctured lung after his wagon rolled over him.anyway,dead is still dead.
They didn't come across bass Reeves. The baddest cowboy in the west. And it's been cosign.
John Alexander, Bass Reeves wasn’t considered a gunslinger, he was was a lawman most of his life and dedicated his whole life to upholding the law.
he was a U.S. Marshall not a gunfighter although he killed men in his job.
Right...otherwise you might have to count Bat Masterson as well. Of course Hickock was a lawmen as well.
I don't know how you miss guys like Johnny Ringo and doc Holliday
that is depicted on the other one, to go see. Doc was way cool.
And actually the actor in the movie playing the part of Ringo, is really an excellent actor , he is a really good guy.
In the movie Tombstone. Ringo is really an excellent actor. I think they all were superior actors. Made a excellent movie!
i think is an iconic movie, with such perfection,. Tombstone. That movie deserves many trophies.
Well in real life, Johnny wasn't that special contrary to what they show in the movie but doc was a pretty good gunslinger
Wild Bill did not kill 100 men. He killed six. And possibly a seventh. That's it. Isn't that enough?
They forgot Porter Rockwell!!!
Jesse/Frank James: How did we miss those guys? Anyone else out there folks we can throw in?
yeh how about doc holliday
Thats why Bob Ford shot him in the back.Deadly with a gun.
@@villiersman951 Doc is overrated as a shootist.
@@divine6732 yeh maybe but i wouldnt want to face him
Jesse James and frank James did most of there robbing and thieving in the south after the civil war not in the west cause they would often go to a save state we’re they couldn’t be charged with crimes.but they did most there stuff in the south against the north, not in the west
You forgot the deadliest of them all: "Destroying Angel" Orrin Porter Rockwell. Killed more outlaws than Earp, Doc, Horn, Masterson combined.
@carpe diem I should considering the dude is not very well known, plus he killed that many cowboys with one freaking working eye and a left leg 2 inches shorter than the right leg.
And pretty much every gunslinger who came to Utah just to challenge the guy got killed.
@@linhthaiduong7273
Did they really do that in the old West? I thought that and low slung gun holsters was a creation of Hollywood.
@@dough6759 Hollywood exaggerated the concept of one on one gun fight. In real life, it was much more unpredictable, spontaneous, chaotic and at times brutal. For example, the death of Wild Bill Hickok in deadwood, south dakota. He was just playing poker and some fool came and shot him while he held two pairs of black eights and aces, which became known as "dead man hand"....Remember that during that time, outside of the 13 colonies, it was more like jungle law and they pretty much live day to day...that's why they called it the wild west.
+1 Agreed.
I read an article that said John Wesley Hardin once killed a man for snoring. I would assume that sociopaths aren't just a recent phenomenon, nor the glorifying of criminals since there is a small town in north Texas, with the name "Tom Horn". There are also several large "Hardin" streets here in the Dallas, TX area. My wife told me about a school in El Paso, named "Hardin".
Carl Schnackel I still can’t get over Bob Dylan’s song about John Wesley Hardin and what a great decent chap he was who was always helping people etc. Talk about glorifying murdering psychopaths and misleading people. I grew up thinking Hardin was a great lovable Robin Hood sort of bloke as that song was always being played in our house when I was young. I got quite a shock when I looked into the true facts about him when I was older. Funnily enough with Billy the Kid the exact opposite is true if you look really deeply into the real known facts about him. He had a terribly unfortunate life and there has been a mass of lies told about him and unfair allegations about the 7 or 8 killings he was known to have taken part in. People do not realise that there was a totally corrupt , mafia style , rich, privileged and paid for , sinister law agency that was out to get him for daring to change sides and go up against them when he (Billy ) knew that they were corrupt. Incidentally Pat Garret worked for them and knew that the original charges against the Kid were trumped up and not watertight. He knew it when he shot him in the back and then lied at the inquest saying that Billy was holding a gun and then later changed his Mind saying that it was a knife. Neither of which was found anywhere near the body . Of course all this was overlooked at the time because the authorities were bought and paid off by an evil bunch of mega rich landowners who didn’t want things to change. Hollywood has a lot to answer for in how it has twisted and warped the truth over the years to suit its own needs.
I live in Hardin Mt.
It wasn't all about speed like the Westerns always made it out to be. Wyatt Earp always said the man who took his time aiming always came out on top. (His favorite weapon was the butt of his pistol that he used to 'buffalo' drunk and disorderly cowboys over the head with.) John Wesley Hardin was probably the one with the highest body count. Clay Allison was a crazy SOB-once he went to a dentist to get a troublesome tooth pulled. The poor dentist pulled out the wrong one so Allison pinned him to the chair and commenced to pulling out teeth without any painkillers.
Miller was murderer too he was a bastard
Buffaloing was actually rapping somebody behind the ear with the barrel of the gun. Slamming the butt of the gun over the head was lethal and considered a very serious party foul, to say the least. Bufalloing was still an effective way of getting the point across tho. 👌🏻. Also you’re absolutely right about the quick draw. I think Wyatt said something like “The quick draw was for showmen and fools.”
Wild Bill Longley should be on here❗
Nobody ever mentions "Deadeye Jake" in these types of footages....Is it because he was mostly concidered as a bandit and not really a gunfighter ???...
It's my understanding that Deadeye Jake was the best in the west when it came to sharpshooting with a fast draw but yet I never hear his name (Benjamin Grey) pop up in these settings.
And the Tom Horn guy sounds like he was just a murderer.
There is a book you might consider buying named, "Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns". It's a very informative book because it's made up entirely of newspaper articles of the time, and no present day interpretations. I'm a history nut, and it's the best book I've found on this subject.
Like how when people talk about old west lawmen, alotta times they leave out Bass Reeves who was probably one of the most badass men anywhere at the time. Survived a murder charge himself, took his own son in for murder. Held down Jim Webb, a multi murderer in his own right, by his throat while gunning down Webb's partner. 30 years as a lawman in the Indian territories and yet died in his bed at 71, that alone outta tell you something
@@johnbrennan8611 Seems I've heard that name before in a portrayal on an episode of either "Gunsmoke" or "The Riffleman"
@@Fa_Qx2 There are some who believe Bass is the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Many of their details are almost identical. Bass was known to have raised and rode a white horse. Since he always rode in Indian Territory, he had to have a Native American posse-man with him at all time, which is we're Tanto came from. And while they couldn't have a black hero in a pre-civil rights western, a lot of black western historians consider the black mask to be an ode to Bass Reeves and fact he was the best black lawman of the west. The big names people remember as lawmen, The Earps, Bat Masterson, Hickok, all these men spent less than a decade in law enforcement. Bass Reeves did it for over 30 years. Even after the southerns came back to power after reconstruction & said there can't be any black federal marshals, he became a town police man. It was said no crime was ever committed while Bass was on shift lol. They'd wait till he went home LMAO.
Excellent video. I remember the old folks talking about the renegades. Down in southern, Arizona. What a fascinating history we have.
" Fancinating history ??? "
Same period we were fighting the Turks with rifls to mainland Greece. That was realy amazing. And we are ready to assansin them again soon.
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Wyatt Earp was barely a "gunslinger"! After he dropped his gun, while sitting at a table, he rarely carried a gun after that incident!
My 2nd great grandfather on my dad's side was killed by James Barnett Gibson "Gip" Hardin, John W Hardins' brother. My grandfather was a deputy sheriff in Junction, Texas. He was killed March 28, 1898. Gip was a school teacher there and was having supper at a local hotel. He was upset about a trial that was going on and was making his feelings known loudly and scaring the customers. My grandfather ushered Mr. Hardin, also his best friend, from the hotel and while proceeding out the doors Mr. Hardin shot him. My grandfather never drew his weapon.
Right after the shooting, the crowd wanted to hang Gip immediately. Both my grandmother and Mr. Hardin's wife were pregnant at the time. My grandmother pleaded not to kill Mr. Hardin because she didn't want another family without a father. What an amazing woman! In the end, he was tried and convicted. He received 35 years, but later, for some reason, he was giving a lighter sentenced and released. He would go on to live until 1918, where he died in a railyard accident in Philadelphia.
You ever heard of Henry Berry Lowery? He was a Lumbee Indian and a wanted man with 10,000 dollar bounty while Jesse James bounty was only $5000 dollars. He had a "war " with the local Confederate militia that lasted 10 years and was never caught. Very few people have heard of this man.
By today's standard,many of them were plain ordinary serial killers....
Thanks great to see and read a bit of the wild west, nice you could read and look at the photos with time to spare, take note other 3 seconds to read vids 👍
my great great grandfather was a great fast gunslinger when zootopia was a town in the wild west
I would have included Doc Holliday on the list and Kid Curry who rode with Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and The Wild Bunch.
Kid Curry?...was he the inspiration for the farter in Blazing Saddles?
My relative was Sheriff of Cheyanne when Horn was hung. He told me that the photo of Horn in his cell making a rope, was the rope he was hung with. He was given the choice of a store bought rope (which would stretch), or making his own. Horn chose to make his own.
His grand daughter not "he" told me.
Yhea what happen too Doc Holiday
If you learn to spell, people MIGHT subscribe in greater numbers.
Example: There's a GREAT difference between 'Calvary' (location of the death of the Christ), and the 'cavalry', a mounted/ armoured military unit.
Still and all, not a bad little entry...enjoyed it.
No not another spelling freak giving lessons outta school
@@edwinthompson6510 I didn't ask, Zippy. It's taken me nearly 60 years to learn the nuances of this language, and without that learning, I'd NEVER have excelled...
NEVER have gotten thru' school, thru' the Military, university (with two degrees), never have gotten my bylines in print for major stories for investigations, worked for BOTH CBS, ABC,
or several OTHER organizations.
Not having been born TO this language, I was ALWAYS glad to be corrected, and made to understand even the smallest mistakes.
But, maybe, YOU are one
of the lucky ones, born of not only privilege, but of incomparable knowledge, who had no need for simple correction, and are of sufficient learning to have made it thru' life, having made NO mistakes.
I, on the other hand, am nearly seventy (70), and STILL make mistakes, STILL need correction, and make NO claims to intellectual infallibility.
I can but bow to one of greater learning, one of greater omniscience, near God-like awareness, from whom I hope to learn ALL I need to know, before I shuffle off the Mortal Coil.
I can but bow before the greater Intellect...make obeisance to one superior to my humble, humbled self. I accept your correction and sarcasm, with ALL humility, and beg forgiveness for EVER speaking out of turn.
I truly beg the pardon of Your Grace. I implore Your Eminence...grant such a one as I the honour of accepting my heart felt apology.
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@@edwinthompson6510 : Good job...GREAT job. Wasn't trying to berate the guy, but exchanging a satirical response for unwarranted criticism. YOU are to be commended. When I foul up (and even now, in spite of everything, I do), I WANT to be corrected, to avoid that mistake in the future. If I've been offensive, I apologize.
I still think Doc Holiday was the greatest gunslinger. Just say when.
I'm your huckleberry.
William Butler Hickok (Wild Bill) was an army scout during the Civil War mostly in Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri, so he was very familiar with the town of Springfield. It was like a second home to him. He spent time in several Kansas cowtowns as town marshal and eventually traveled back to Springfield, Missouri, where he was a familiar figure and was quite well liked by most everyone since he was a friendly cuss. He went into the saloon on the north side of the square in Springfield where he began gambling since there was little else to do. Then during a hand of poker Bill found himself a bit overextended money-wise, and so he used his pocket watch (he'd been given by his father, so the story goes) as collateral to Dave Tutt. Bill being temporarily short of money, made Dave Tutt promise to sell it back to him as soon as he could come up with the money, but he also warned Tutt he was not to wear it at anytime. But Dave Tutt wore it anyway brazenly open across his vest and in his vest pocket. Well, when Bill saw Tutt wearing it from across the square in Springfield, he shouted at him to take the watch off. Tutt refused and drew his pistol on Bill, shot and missed. Bill drew his pistol and shot Tutt dead from across the Springfield square, a distance of about 75 yards. That was a helluva pistol shot, and there's a small bronze marker in the concrete sidewalk marking the place where Bill stood as he shot Dave Tutt whose position is also market by a like kind of bronze marker. I lived in Springfield for about 40 years, and I stood at the place Bill stood. And I'm amazed at the shot Bill made. I don't know anyone who could draw and shoot and hit a person from 75 yards or even 50 yards. Shooting is one thing, but drawing fast and shooting and hitting a man at that distance, as I said, is amazing.
He did get his pocket watch back and was promptly arrested by a town policeman. He stood trial on a charge of murder. But since Bill was known by so many people in Springfield and was well liked, the jury found him innocent of murder. Some of the local people were outraged at the jury's verdict, but most weren't. He was such a nice guy and so well-liked.
Later, Bill went to Deadwood in Dakota Territory where things were pretty wild, and of course, he got into a game of poker, but of all things he never did, he sat at a table with his back to the door while playing the game with some locals. Meanwhile, unknown to Bill, Dave Tutt's cousin had taken great exception to Bill having killed his cousin Dave, and he followed Bill to Deadwood. He walked into the saloon and shot Bill in the back like a dirty coward. Folks say Bill was holding a full house of aces and eights, but that may be just folklore. Since then, aces and eights in a full house has been known as a deadman's hand. So they say.
The name is James Butler Hickok, not William.
wasn't it two aces and two eights?
James Butler Hickok
@@mikev4621 I think it was two pair.
@@alan30189 that's what I said ( I think) - two aces and two eights
You forget one man, and that man got a plan.
You forgot about Bass Reeves.
He was the inspiration for the TV series, the Lone Ranger.
One of the greatest and most feared lawmen of the Old West.
To this day, Mr. Reeves is looked on and remembered as the inspiration for all federal Marshalls. All the men he killed , which amount to more than any of these, were in fair fights no shooting in the back nor sniping from hidden cover.
@@mfrsmphjd52
He doesn't get the credit due, in making the west a safe and great place for Americans to live.
RESPECT!
Hsj Ndj yes he is The ONLY lawman who lived with Indians used disguises brought most criminals to justice and won more gunfights than any other us deputy Marshall nobody else fits get your facts straight bozo
I was thinking the same thing. Bass Reeves is a legend and an inspiration to lawmen even today. My personal favorite is Bill Tilghman. I don't think he had many gunfights though. His reputation was such that many criminals turned themselves in when they heard he was looking for them. He briefly retired but came out of retirement at the persobal request of the OK governor to be the chief of police of Cromwell (i think) OK, a wild oil boom town. He was still witking at age 70 when he was murdered by a corrupt Prohibition agent in the 20's (1926 i think). The 1999 movie "You Know My Name" depicts his life, with Sam Elliott portraying Tilghman.
@@troy9477
Wow, never heard of him.
I just looked him up. Interesting fella. It's a shame how his life ended.
It's something how the good guys get got and the bad guys keep going on.
Or so they think. One day they'll reap what they've sown!
And as far as Bass Reaves being the inspiration for the Lone Ranger...
Of course the creator is going to deny he was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger!
Do you think the show would have done as well, if people knew the inspiration for the show
( one of the most loved, fictional western hero character ever) was a black African American man!
Come on, let's be real. The show would have been cancelled before it ever saw the light of day. Lol
That's said, people are free (keyword free) to believe what they want.
By the way, it wasn't a African-American man who told me that Bass Reaves was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger, but a white (Caucasian) elderly firearms enthusiast!
I was shocked when I overheard the man talking about it in the firearms department.
I actually stopped and asked him about the subject and he began to enlighten me.
Upon further study on my part, I can say, I believe it to be true.
Regardless, God bless.
Stay safe and healthy.
Peace
Sounds like you bought into the old mythologies about some of these guys.
I think you may be wrong about John Wesley Hardin being born in Texas. He was born in Hardin County Tennessee. I knew his great uncle (who's name was Gibson Hardin, called "Gip") until his death just a few years ago.
ALways good to hear from someone with the real facts.
LOL Im a very distant relation to Hardin on my stepfathers side and Selman on my mothers side. THats kind of a bitter irony there :\
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@@jonathanmills1976 Thanks I miss reported the connection. Gip was his G nephew. I get miss up when I try to identify relations when they go back more than one generation or so! Bye the way, Gip passed away only a couple of years age in his early 90's here in Savannah, Hardin Co, Tn.
"Wild Bill" is still my number one
Fun Fact : My grandson is named after Wyatt Earp
My x husbands mother. Her Grandmother was sister of Mary Tod Lincoln. This is Americas past.
Arthur Morgan, born in 1863 to Beatrice and Lyle Morgan. His mother died when he was very young, and his father was a petty criminal and outlaw. Lyle was arrested for Larceny in 1874, eventually being killed with his son witnessing his death.
Around 4 years later, Arthur Morgan met Hosea Mathews and Dutch van der Linde, becoming one of the first members of the Van der Linde gang (also referred to as Dutch’s Boys). From Mathews and Van der Linde, he learned how to read, write, hunt, fish and most importantly: shoot a gun.
In 1887, Morgan committed his first major crime, robbing a bank with Hosea Mathews and Dutch van der Linde. They made off with $5000, sharing it with the poor.
Between this robbery in 1887 and 1899, the gang carried out roughly 37 bank robberies across the country.
At some point in Arthur’s life, he had a son with a waitress. Every few months, he would return to the town to check up on them, until one day he discovered them to both be dead. This made the outlaw have a hardened personality, strengthening his belief he belonged with the gang.
Eventually, after a boat job went poorly in Blackwater, the gang fled north. During the incident, 3 members of the gang were killed. From the north, they continued to flee East.
One day, in the “eighth wonder of the civilised world”, Saint Denis, Arthur Morgan was diagnosed with tuberculosis. It is believed he was infected when collecting a debt from a man named Thomas Downes earlier that year.
As his health deteriorated, so did his relationship with Dutch Van der Linde. He was losing faith in his long time friend, after the death of Hosea Mathews in a failed bank robbery. This lead to the Van der Linde gang dissolving in 1899, the same day Arthur Morgan passed from a combination of being beaten and suffering from his illness.
Arthur Morgan, 1863-1899.
looool
Not much of a Deadly Gunslinger from what you wrote.
vtownboxingfan He killed hundreds... He was known as Dutch’s right hand man after Hosea being shot by someone in the Pinkerton Detective Agency, during a heist.
Water Bottle yeah, and within his last few hours he must have killed 50-100 Pinkertons, I’ve lost track lol
That's the video game red dead redemption.
Excellent video. What is also interesting is how some of the gun fighters packed their pistols. It often was not in a holster. Amongst the most beautiful holsters though was that of Geronimo, said to have been taken from one of his Mexican victims.
Mysterious Dave Mather, Dave Rudabaugh, Bat Masterson, Buckskin Frank Leslie, Bill Tilghman, list goes on.
@Spoiler yes sir
Wyatt earp was a horse thief and on the run from the law and was an outlaw before he ever became a lawman
Well.... he had plenty of experience to be a lawman!
Hey what about DOC HOLIDAY?
A true educated Southern Gentleman and a not bad dentist! Anyone who insulted him went to their just reward.
If Jerry Miculek had lived back then, he would have been the KING OF THE HILL!
Am I the only one who noticed he put the exact same sentence in Sam bass 8:24
Being a psychopath has never been a crime...Clay Allison saw active service as a scout for general Forrest for most of the Civil War -- drove cattle for Goodnight & Loving ....and continued to earn a honest living as a cowboy and rancher -- always supporting his family
until his unfortunate death by accident....
Thank you for showing the captions long enough to read and study the photo... many fail at this.
There's a pause button!
@@armyvet8279 Yes, that's good for reading, but you can't see the pictures that good (especially when you watch on a cell phone or tablet).
@@thalia7104 But you can tap the video off to the side from the arrows after pausing and the paused video will brighten back up on a tablet. But I'm not sure if it'll work on a phone though, because I haven't tried it yet.
Can make the words a little larger was hard to read....
It’s my understanding that Earp lived for a bit in Silverton Colorado. I always liked Wyatt Earp.
Didn't Wyatt Earp die in chino California?
@@jamesarmijo1898 I read that Wyaat Earp died in Los Angeles California and buried in Como, California
Thank you sir
@@jamesarmijo1898 You are most welcome. :)
"Deadliest"? Wyatt Earp only actually killed Maybe 3 Men by himself & possibly only 2......Frank Stilwell & Curly Bill Brocius, with one in Dodge City Earlier (Possibly). He had a hand in the death of 2 at the OK Corral, along with the other shooters & the ones killed in "The Vendetta Ride" were attributed to him, but nobody really knows for sure. There could be more, but I'm referring to "Verified Kills" Not Wild West Legends & Myths....Wyatt is like Doc Holliday who is credited with many killings, but actually only killed one...Maybe 2 Men in his life & y'all can forget about the "Rumored" murder of a Black Fellow in Georgia over his presence in the local "Swimming Hole". That's just Bullshit
Where is DOC HOLLIDAY & JESSE JAMES OR BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUN DANCE KID
I was curious about Doc being excluded also but as for Butch Cassidy it seems that I've read that he was very proud that he had never killed a man in the commission of his robberies.
Yeah...And why they didn't mention "Buckshot Roberts" is beyond me...Maybe cause he wasn't really an outlaw
What about Ben Thompson?
in all the gunbattles he was in, Wyatt Erp was never touched by a bullet....OnWard....
Porter rockwell same.
Think everyone knows it wasnt like the movies
But i wonder who were the guys that used a gun to defend themselves and who just shot in cold blood
I would venture most were cowards that killed, in cold blood, their defenseless opposition.
@@ronniec8038 nah everyone was packing then I bet most were arguments that gotta outta hand or disputes
@@phootphetishphilip5551 Everyone is packing today to. But if we didn't have the laws and police that we have now it would probably be worse than it was back then.
@@ernestwalden3894 not like then people up here in the north never even held a gun before except criminals
@@ernestwalden3894 these guys were better with much crappier guns too they had to reload faster and more often
So basically a bunch of assholes who didnt gave a shit of taking a life. Heros i assume....
Interesting that so many of these fellas wanted to or did join the Confederacy. Even those born/raised in Illinois or Iowa. Just a curious note.
The Confederacy had many good things about it, but slavery wasn't one of them. Apart from that, one thing that might have caused people to move south was that it was an agrarian economy, so they could farm there for much less cost than they could in the North where every state charged a tariff for import and export sales between the states.
The people who originally settled in the South were the same group of people who fought the English Civil War and our Revolutionary War. Many historians refer to these wars (which includes the Civil War) as 'The Cousins Wars'.
When the so-called civil war broke out, the South didn't need to draft men for soldiers as the Northern states did, because the southerners had a way of life they wanted to preserve and were willing to fight for it. Confederate soldiers were volunteers. They weren't fighting for the wealthy plantation owners, they were fighting for themselves and for the rights of each state to govern in its own best interest. Secession wasn't unConstitutional, so it seemed to be the natural thing to do. Later, after the Northern politicians got involved, it was decided that secession wasn't okay. And Lincoln got all bound up in the thing and thought he had to save the Union.
Very few farmers in the South owned slaves. They were very expensive, so only the very rich landowners had slaves. The Confederate States of America had a Constitution that was almost exactly like the US Constitution. There's not much to improve upon so they basically just copied it. There were quite a few admirers who went south to fight for the Confederacy, but when the war ended with Lee's surrender, these poor guys couldn't go back to their homes if the local people knew they'd fought for the South. As you might imagine, it was very unpopular with people in the North; they were very narrow minded about it. So many of them moved West.
Wait a Minute...... WHERE THE F**KING HELL IS JIM ,,BOY" CALLOWAY?!
This was very informative. A great video!
Except for Billy wasn't killed by Garrett..
Wyatt Earp operated soloons and shooting galleries in the red light district of San Diego California AKA the Stingaree during the city's railroad fueled economic boom during the turn of the century.
Earp is the only one here who didn't die by the violence he he lived.
I am distantly related to John King Fisher on my dad's side. He was a first cousin of one of my dad's great grandparents. I think he has a letter from family members that discuss John King Fisher before his death. He wasn't exactly a family favorite from my understanding.
I'm distantly related to John Wesley Hardin. And I'm a chronic snorer.
I really loved this video! 💜
no one has claimed Hitchcock killed over 100, in fact he probably killed less than 10 or 15.
I've read everything I can get my hands on about Hickock and have never heard an utterance of he being responsible for that many men's demise. Though I'm sure he killed a lot of men in the war they have never been tallied by anyone that I can recall. No doubt though that he was likely the deadliest and most accurate shot of his time. The only thing that I was ever disappointed in about Bill besides the way he died was learning that he had fought on the side of the Union. LOL!
I was somewhat astonished at that number also. I always heard a number around 8 to 10 men.
@@jaelge -Union had a far better retirement plan ;
There were four recorded killings by Hickock, one being his own deputy, two suppose killings of 7th Cavalry Troopers, all the rest being hear say and Tall Tales.
He also killed Dave Tutt over his watch and killed members of the McCanles gang in a shootout
@@vondariusharrington2087 Yes the Dave Tutt killing recorded, the McCanles shooting is shadowed in mystery, 12 year old Monroa McCanles the only witness was never allowed to tesify, only Hoarse Wellman, his wife and Hickock knew the truth of the shooting.
@Elliott Feaster Dave Tutt was a recorded kill, McCanles affair, is scetchy, the trooper killings reported in the new papper but no military records of the killings are mentioned, here i think we can give Hickock the benifit of a dought.
Kurt Russell had a mean Earp mustache in Tombstone.
Epic
Ian Hinirichsen
A Stud-Muffin
Kept it waxed
Yeah, they were all known for growing their own mustaches for the movie. Val Kilmer even lost 30 lbs for the part of Doc Holliday.
@@darlenebyard3821 -He sure piled it, and about 50 more, for his part in Comanche Moon. Even the horse fought like a wild mustang, to keep him afoot. ;
A couple things, the fight did not take place in the OK coral i have been there, it was opposite. And they really don't know if Billy the Kid was shot dead or not.
Yes I agree, there were two Billy, so the other had went in the room where Pat Garrett was and was shot, Pat knew it was not Billy the Kid, he know what Billy the kid look like, so the story became mystery after that. No one knows!
Don't forget Yosemite Sam !
Great horny toads that burns my biscuits
I thought there was only one photo of billy the kid, I guess the other one is just another that looks like him
We all have our own stories. My ancestors go back both sides to the thirteen original colonies. Different way of life and surviving in those days.
Wyatt was nobodys hero probably would have been hung in Arkansas if not for his daddy an his money but he did have the good sense not to face Clay Allison i think that's when he would have felt the burn
Wyatt Earp said that Bat Masterson was the surest gunman he ever knew. He also said that he knew that Bat had " only" killed 4 men, all in gunfights, and was not the killer that legend said he was. Earp said he was a good and fair man that usually only had to look at a man to stop any trouble that was coming. ( I actually have Masterson on video, as the time keeper to the Corbett/Fitzsimmons fight in 1897. Ne was the timekeeper.)
Masterson himself said that the deadliest gunman of all, hands down, was Ben Thompson. Like clockwork, he NEVER missed.
Bat may not have killed anybody even sgt king. He did kill commanches
Yo where's Arthur frickin Morgan?
He can wipe out every gunslingers with his dead eye ability XD
Didn't realize how many of them were the sons of minsters. Very telling.
It is easy to be a saint in paradise. The confusion after the civil war made correct judgements never clear. What is right or wrong becomes very subjective. Even now, as then, families and love ones are divided over politics, where destruction, injury and death, is acceptable for those who oppose you . What is right or wrong becomes very subjective. We are not that far away from a similar state of mind as those in the days of the wild west.
Shouldn't Doc Holiday be on this list? He supposedly killed around 80 men.
Lol,,, he was a dentist,,, not a gunfighter.
@@scottsmith4145 Actually, he was probably one of the most deadly people in the old west. His illness kept him from working as a dentist most of the time. He started gambling to make a living and soon learned it could be a dangerous profession. He learned how to use knives and guns to protect himself, and he became very proficient. Many believe that, as his disease progressed and became more painful, he would deliberately goad people he didn't like into fights. The theory is that he was hoping he would lose, but he never did.
Thumbs down because I had to read, I was expecting a narrator lol