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This 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
Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848.Most of her family members called her May. Her father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, hogs and horses, though he was considered to be the "black sheep" of a well-to-do Virginia family which had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. [2]
Pearl Hart (born Pearl Taylor; 1871 – December 30, 1955) was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. Many details of Hart's life are uncertain, with available reports being varied and often ...
Gunfighters repelling a Native American attack. Gunfighters, also called gunslingers (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ n s l ɪ ŋ ər /) 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.
Name Portrait Life Years active Comments Ref. John Hicks Adams: No image available: 1830–1878 1864–1878 Sheriff, Santa Clara County, California, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Arizona Territory
Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio.
Pages in category "Gunslingers of the American Old West" The following 143 pages are in this category, out of 143 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lillian Frances Smith (August 4, 1871 [nb 1] – February 3, 1930) [4] was an American trick shooter and trick rider who joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1886, at the age of fourteen. [5] She was billed as "the champion California huntress," [ 6 ] and was a direct rival to Annie Oakley in the show.