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WESTERN ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1859

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                     William H. Bonney
 
(William Henry McCarty, Jr.) 

                          (November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881) 

Bonney became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend,
he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine

men. He himself was shot dead at age twenty-one by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett.


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                         Pat Garrett

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GUNFIGHTER DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1887

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John Henry "Doc" Holliday
(August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887)

Holliday was a gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the Old West who is 
remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in
the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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