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Bookmark or Share- List of Old West gunfighters - WikipediaThis is a list of Old West gunfighters, referring to outlaws or lawmen, of the American frontier who gained fame or notoriety during the American Wild West or Old West. Some listed were never gunfighters. The term gunslinger is a modern, 20th-century invention, often used in cinema or other media to refer to men in the American Old West who had ...
- Wyatt Earp Wasn't the Fastest Gunslinger in the West and That Didn't ...Wyatt Earp was a lawman, a gambler, a lover of prostitutes, a buffalo hunter, a saloon keeper, a miner, a boxing referee, maybe a bordello keeper and, most famously, a gunslinger of international renown. But the absolute, without-a-doubt, hands-down, fastest gun in the West? Probably not.
- Gunfighter - WikipediaGunfighters, also called gunslingers ( / ˈɡʌnslɪŋər /) or in the late 19th and early 20th century gunmen, were individuals in the American Old West who gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and participated in shootouts.
- Wild Bill Hickok - Gunfighter of the Wild West - ThoughtCoIn 1867, according to a story told by James WIlliam Buel in Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout (1880), Hickok was involved in a gunfight with four men in Jefferson County, Nebraska. He killed three of them and wounded the fourth, while only receiving a wound to his own shoulder.
- Gunfighters of the Old West – Legends of AmericaThe terms “gunfighter” or “gunslinger,” as they are most often called today, are actually more modern words utilized in films and literature of the 20th Century. During the days of the “real” Wild West, men who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun were more commonly called gunmen, pistoleers, shootists, or bad men.
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