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A few of our favorite names


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A compilation of the colorful names that appear on Ghost Cowboy.

El Renegado, the Yaqui Indian chief who never liked a man he didn’t saw.

California Dan met an inglorious end at the hands of Yaqui Indians who sawed off his feet, “just above the ankles.”

Flopping Bill led a group of 60 cowboys hunting horse thieves north of the Missouri River.

Kep Queen was tracked and shot by a posse in Indian Territory. Queen spent the time between the shooting and his death in praying and cursing.

Rattlesnake Bill and his partner rode into Cottonwood on the Fourth of July. The two had big plans for cleaning out the town. When all was done, both desperados had yielded up the ghost.

 

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