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In
this YouTube video, we are diving into the gripping tales of the outlaws who
roamed the untamed frontier. In the lawless expanse of the Wild West, where
justice was often decided by the quickest draw, these outlaws carved their names
into the annals of infamy. Grab your six-shooter and hang on tight as we journey
through the untamed tales of the most notorious figures who dared to defy the
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1.James Wild Bill Hickok

James Butler Hickok was a well-known marksman in the old west. Throughout his career, he
may have killed over a hundred people as a showman, gambler, gunfighter, and peace officer.
On May 27, 1837, in Illinois, William Alonso and Polly Butler Hickok brought Hickok into the
world. Given how strongly opposed to slavery Hickok's father was, it's likely that the
Underground Railroad made a stop at their house. Hickok's notoriety in his birthplace and his
early shooting prowess helped him land a job as a Monticello Township constable in 1858. A
few years later, in 1865, he began working for the commodities company Russell Wattle and
Majors, who ran the Pony Express.

Following multiple altercations, David Tutt was shot and murdered by Hickok from a distance of
75 yards.Hickok was cleared of all charges because he maintained that on August 2, 1876,
while he was in Deadwood, South Dakota, playing five-card draw poker, he acted in
self-defense. The cards that Hickok held in his hands—the aces and eights—became known as
the dead man's hand, John Wesley Hardin. Jack McCall had shot Hickok in the head during
their game because he felt Hickok had insulted him.

2.John Wesley Hardin

After John Wesley Hardin was born in Texas in 1853, his parents, Methodist ministers
James Gibson Gip Hardin and Mary Elizabeth Dixon Hardin, relocated their family to Trinity
County, Texas, in 1859. John Wesley made an attempt to escape and enlist in the
Confederate Army when the Civil War started. When he shot a former slave who was
supposedly attempting to harm him with a stick in November 1868, he was killed for the first
time, at the age of 15. His father had instructed the Union soldiers to hide at the time they
were living in Texas. He killed the three when his whereabouts were established. He had to
leave his home after Union soldiers were ordered to capture him.
Before Frank Polk was apprehended for murder, Hardin rode with the outlaw in Navarro
County. After that, Hardin wandered around, leaving a trail of dead victims in his wake. In
Pisgah, Hardin shot a man in the eye over a bed, and in Leon County, Texas, in 1870, he
killed a black man in Hill County. When Hardin was winning a card game with Benjamin
Bradley, Bradley threatened Hardin with a knife. After an altercation, Hardin left, but Bradley
followed and fired again, hitting Harden in the head and chest. Later that month, Hardin
killed a guy in Limestone County, and two weeks later, he shot a man attempting to rob him
in 1871.

After killing a Texas Marshal named Labon John Hoffman, Hardin escaped from custody
and went on to kill more police officers, including Jim Smalley. Over the course of the next
three years, Hardin killed more people, but the Texas Rangers apprehended him and
sentenced him to 25 years in Texas State Prison in Huntsville. After serving 17 years in jail
for a disagreement with a Selman Junior in April 1895, Hardin was shot in the back of the
head by John Selman Senior, killing him. Hardin studied religion and law, but his health
declined. Hardin was buried at El Paso.

3.John King Fisher

Job and Lucinda Warren Fisher were the parents of John Kingfisher, who was born in Texas
in 1853. He started having problems when he was 16 years old because he was stealing
horses. As a result of his criminal activity, he spent time in and out of prison. In the year
1870, he joined a group of bandits that preyed on Mexican ranchers. After getting into a
fight with the other members of the gang, Fisher killed three of them, took over as leader,
and executed seven Mexican bandits in 1884.

Fisher went to the Turner Hall Opera House in San Antonio with his close friend Ben
Thompson to see a performance. Following the performance, Fisher and Thompson left the
theater and went to the upper level of the Vaudeville variety theater, where they met Joe
Foster, the owner of the theater. There, they were ambushed; Thompson died from a
gunshot wound to the head, and Fisher withdrew his weapons, but he was ultimately
murdered by 13 gunshots. His bones were initially buried on the ranch he owned, but later
moved to the Pioneer Cemetery in Uvalde, Texas.
4.Tom Horn Jr
Thomas Horn Jr. was born on November 21, 1860, in Missouri, to Thomas S. Horn senior
and Marianne Marika Miller Horn. His father mistreated him, which led him to leave home
when he was sixteen years old. During the Apache Wars, the U.S. Cavalry used him as a
scout and translator. He participated in the search for Geronimo and witnessed his
surrender in the 1880s. Horn was well-known for being a tracker and bounty hunter.

After becoming embroiled in a feud between the Miller and Nickel families in Iron Mountain,
Wyoming, Horn was hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency. However, he was forced to
resign after being linked to the murders of 17 men in 1901. A month after the
fourteen-year-old Willie Nickel was found murdered, his father Kells was killed, and most of
his stock was slaughtered. Due to Horn's drunken boasts about the murder of young Willie,
he was arrested and found guilty of murder.

The day before he turned forty-three, in 1903, Thomas Horn was hanged and interred in
Boulder, Colorado's Columbia Cemetery. It is interesting because while some contemporary
historians maintain that Horn was innocent in this specific case, there is no doubt that he
was involved in numerous other murders—historians have theorized that he may have been
involved in as many as 50 homicides.

5.Jim Killer Miller

Jim Killer Miller, one of the most heinous villains of the old west, was an assassin and
gunfighter who was credited with killing at least 14 people, while legend has it that the
number is closer to 50. Mr. James Brown Miller was born on October 25, 1861 in Van
Buren, Arkansas to Jacob and Cynthia Basham Miller, but he was raised in Texas. One of
his most famous stories involves a confrontation with a sheriff named Bud Frazier over
Miller's alleged involvement in the murder of a cattle rancher in 1884. Miller shot John
Thomas Coop, his sister's husband, in the head after an argument. Miller served as a town
Marshal in Picos and married Sally Clements in 1891.

Miller was an upstanding citizen for a brief time and was dedicated to the Methodist Church
following a long-standing battle with Pico's Sheriff George a Fraser. Miller fatally shot Fraser
at a Toyah Texas bar, and numerous members of the prosecution and individuals who had
testified against Miller were mysteriously murdered. Miller was never prosecuted for any of
the homicides in 1900.

Miller began working as a professional assassin, executing over six killings for pay and is
claimed to have gunned down everyone from political officials to legendary Sheriff Pat
Garrett. Miller was captured in jail after the murder of Alan Bobbitt, and an enraged crowd
led him and two other convicts to The Gallows, where they were hanged.

6.Dallas Stoudenmeier

Dallas stoudenmeier, while not as well-known as many of the others, Dallas stoudenmeier
was a feared lawman in his day, and he is notorious for taking part in more gunfights than
most of his more well-known colleagues. Dallas stoudenmeier was born on December 11,
1845 in Bullock County, Alabama to Lewis and Elizabeth stoudenmeier. When he was 15,
he tried to join the Confederacy to fight in the Civil War but was discharged when his true
age was revealed. A few years later, he re-enlisted and served as a private in company 45th
Alabama Infantry Regiment.He was injured multiple times but remained in service until the
conclusion of the war. After transferring to El Paso, Texas, to serve as Sheriff, he had a
reputation for being rough and short-tempered while he was drinking.

In the four dead in five seconds gunfights, he murdered three men before the conclusion of
his third day. This was the start of a bloody binge that would see Stoudenmeier murder six
more men in gunfights over the next year, earning him a reputation as one of Texas' most
fearless cops.

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