Gunfighter Index - K-M

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• William Kellam, aka: Cherokee Bill - A gunman for Oliver Lee in the Lee-Good feud in Tularosa, New Mexico.

• Robert Kenny - A gunman, he shot and killed Julius Lancleve in March 1878 at Palomas, New Mexico.

• Jack Kilmartin - A gunman and civilian Indian scout, he pursued rustlers and outlaws around Fort Sill, Oklahoma and was shot and killed while spying on rustlers.

• "Cowboy Bill" King - A gunman and ranch foreman in Sonorra, New Mexico, he was killed by Burt Alvord in the 1890s.

• Ed King - A gunman and cowboy at the LS ranch in Oldham County, Texas, he was killed in a shoot-out with Len Woodruff, an LX cowboy.

• John Kinney - A gunman for hire and a cattle rustler, he led the John Kinney Gang. He fought in the EI Paso Salt War in 1877 and for Dolan-Murphy faction in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico. He served five years in prison for rustling and died in Arizona in 1919.

• George Kitt - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he rode with the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878.

• John Joseph KIoehr - A gunman and resident of Coffeyville, Kansas Kloehr was credited. with having shot and killed Bob Dalton, Bill Broadwell, Grat Dalton, and Texas Jack, and having wounded Emmet Dalton during the Dalton gang's attempted raid on two Coffeyville banks. Kloehr died of natural causes in 1927.

• Charles Kresling – A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he was indicted for his participation.

• "Dutch Charlie" Kruling - A member of the Seven Rivers Warriors who fought in New Mexico's Lincoln County War. After the war was over, he disappeared from history.  

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• Robert Lacy (18??-1877) - Gambler, scoundrel, and gunfighter, Lacy was lynched in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1877, after having swindled several people in the area.

• Smith Lea - A gunman, he killed Catarino Romero in June 1885 at Lincoln, New Mexico.

• Bob Lee - A gunman, he was a friend of Dick Rogers in Raton, New Mexico, and two attempted to break a friend out of jail in Springer.

• Oliver Milton Lee (1866-1941) – One of the best gunfighters in the Old West, he was the primary agitator in the Lee-Good feud in Tularosa, New Mexico. He had A.J. Fountain killed and was an enemy of Pat Garrett.

• Kitty LeRoy (1850-1878) - A gunfighter and gambler, she was one of the Old West's best women gamblers. In 1876 she ran a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. Her many lovers included Sam Bass and Wild Bill Hickok. Her fifth husband grew jealous and killed her in 1878.

• Nashville Franklin "Buckskin Frank" Leslie (1842-1925?) - A friend to the Earps in Tombstone, Arizona and deadly gunman he killed ten to thirteen men including Mike Killeen and Billy Claibourne in 1881, and claimed he killed Johnny Ringo. He served eight years in Yuma prison for murder in. 1889.By 1922, he had disappeared from any records and his place and time of death are unknown.

• Jim Levy (1842-1882) - Sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Gunfighter," Levy allegedly he lived through 16 gunfights before he was ambushed in Tucson, Arizona by John Murphy.

• Lincoln County Regulators (1878) - Opposing the Dolan-Murphy faction in Lincoln County, New Mexico over the control of the county, the Lincoln County Regulators began as a deputized posse seeking revenge for the death of their boss and friend, John Tunstall.

•  Dick Lloyd - A member of Jesse Evans Gang during New Mexico's Lincoln County War . Afterwards he went to Arizona wehre he was shot and in the early 1880s.

• John "Jack" Long, aka: "Long John"( 18??-??) - Having a reputation as a gunfighter in Texas, Long later went to New Mexico, where he was involved in the Lincoln County War as a member of the Jesse Evans Gang. Afterwards, he went to Arizona and disappeared, as his name was soon lost to history.

• "Big" Steve Long (18??-1868) - Known mostly as a professional gunman, Long also was a lawman and an outlaw. When outlawry became his main objective in 1868, he was lynched by a vigilante mob in Laramie City, Wyoming on October 28th.

• William Preston Longley, aka: Wild Bill, Rattling Bill, Tom Jones, Jim Patterson, Jim Webb, Bill Black, Bill Henry, Bill Jackson (1851-1878) - Texas outlaw Bill Longley was from a respectable family, but his hot temper, his fondness for liquor, and unsettled conditions during reconstruction led him to become one of the most daring gunfighters of his day. He is said to have killed 32 persons before he was captured and hanged on October 11, 1878.

• “Cock-Eyed” Frank Loving (1860?-1882) - Still in his teens, Loving was involved in the Richardson-Loving gunfight at the Long Branch Saloon, in Dodge City, Kansas in 1879. He was later involved in the Trindad, Colorado Saloon gunfight in 1882, where he was shot dead.

• Joseph "Rowdy Joe" Lowe (1845-1899) - Running a saloon in Delano, Kansas, Lowe shot and killed Edward "Red" Beard on October 27, 1873. Later, he moved to Texas, where it was said that Lowe sometimes joined up with the Sam Bass Gang. He was killed in Denver, Colorado on February 11, 1899 by ex-policeman, E.A. Kimmel.

• Aban Lucero - A gunman, he shot and killed a man in Galisteo, New Mexico, on February 9, 1891.

• Martiniano Lujan - A gunman, he shot and killed Martias Mirival on February 21, 1890, near Lincoln, New Mexico.

• Melchior Luna - A gunman, he shot Manuel Sanchez on February 20, 1883, in Belen, New Mexico.

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• Frank MacNab - The second leader of the Lincoln County Regulators, who fought for the McSween faction of the Lincoln County War . He was killed by a posse made up of the combined forces of the Jessie Evans Gang and Seven Rivers Warriors at the Fritz Ranch, New Mexico on April 29, 1878.

• John Mace - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he was indicted in 1878 for his participation. He was killed by a posse in 1880.

• Robert Majors - A gunman, he shot and killed former Texas Ranger James Harris in a shoot-out at Santa Cruz, California in the early 1880s.

• Henry Mamby - A gunman, he shot and killed D.B. Griffin on May II, 1884 in Vermijo, New Mexico.

• Mitchel “Mitch” E. Maney, aka: Mike Manning - A gunman, he shot and killed Juan Patron in Puerto de Luna, New Mexico on April 12, 1884.

• A.E. Manning - A merchant and gunman in Northfield, Minnesota, he shot Cole Younger and Bill Chadwell on September 7, 1876 when the James-Younger Gang were attempting to rob the bank.

• James Manning - A gunman, he was one of the brothers in an EI Paso feud with Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire. In 1882, James shot Stoudenmire in the head and was acquitted of murder.

• Jim Mansker - A gunman, he was killed at Miles City, Montana in 1894 during a gunfight.

• Charles Marshall - A member of the Seven Rivers Warriors who fought in New Mexico's Lincoln County War. He was killed in Lincoln, New Mexico on April 30, 1878, probably by members of the Regulators.

• Bob Martin - A member of Jesse Evans Gang during New Mexico's Lincoln County War . Nothing known of life following the conflict.

• Charles Martin - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he was indicted in 1878 for his participation.

• Atanacio Martinez - Fought with the Regulators in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico. He claimed he shot and killed Morris J. Bernstein in Lincoln County, a shooting credited to Billy the Kid. Afterwards he disappeared.

• Barney Mason - A gunman, lawman, and Sheriff Garrett's deputy, he killed John Farris in self-defense at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 1880.

• James "Jim" P. Masterson (1855–1895) - Brother to Bat Masterson, James was a lawman in Dodge City and Ingalls, Kansas. He later served as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory. He fought the Doolin Gang and was part of the posse that forced Arkansas Tom Jones to surrender.

• Robert Masterson, aka: Smiling Bob - Another brother of Bat Masterson, Robert was marshal in Trinidad, Colorado in 1882. He reportedly killed twenty-one men.

• William Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson (1856?-1921) - Ford County Kansas Deputy Sheriff and Sheriff, Trinidad, Colorado Marshal, Dodge City Peace Commissioner, U.S. Deputy Marshal In New York. Later a reporter for a newspaper. Died of natural causes in 1921.

• Jacob B. Matthews - A gunman, he served in the Tennessee Cavalry in the Civil War, and was a hired gunman employed as deputy sheriff by L.G. Murphy during the Lincoln County War of New Mexico. He died in 1904.

• Oscar Mathias - A gunman, he shot John Coddington on September 30, 1882, at Three Rivers, New Mexico.

• Clarence L. "Gunplay" Maxwell, aka: James Bliss, Thomas Bliss, William Seaman (1860?-1909) - Actually born James Otis Bliss, this outlaw/gunfighter is best known as "Gunplay" Maxwell. A bank and stagecoach robber, gunfighter, and miner, Maxwell was killed in Price City, Utah by Deputy Sheriff Edward Johnstone in August, 1909.

• Peter Menard Maxwell - A cowboy and gunman, he was a friend of Billy the Kid in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Pat Garrett shot and killed the Kid in Maxwell's bedroom in July 1881. Maxwell died on June 21, 1898.

• D. Boone May – A gunman and stage guard in Deadwood, South Dakota and Cheyenne, Wyoming, he killed several stage robbers in the 1870s.

• Andy McCloskey - A gunman and buffalo hunter, he dueled with another man at Camp Supply, Texas in 1872. Both men were killed.

• Sam McCloskey - A gunman, he was injured in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico.

• William McCloskey - Fought with the Regulators in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico. He was shot in the head and killed by fellow Regulator, Frank MacNab, for being a suspected Dolan-Murphy man on March 9, 1878.

• Jimmy McDaniels - A member of Jesse Evans Gang during New Mexico's Lincoln County War . He died of old age around 1950.

• Ed McGrand – A gunman, he received a life sentence in 1876 for killing a man in Nebraska.

• James McIntire (1846-1902) - A Texas gunman and lawman from 1860, he was a Texas Ranger, city marshal of Las Vegas, New Mexico, deputy sheriff, cowboy, hunter, gambler, and outlaw with a $1,000 reward on his head for the deaths of two men near Silver City, New Mexico.

• Chas McIntyre - A gunman, he was jailed in 1874 at Belmont, Nebraska for drawing his pistol and was later lynched.

• Neal McKeague - A gunman and gambler, he was killed at Church's Ferry, Dakota Territory in 1890 by a barkeeper.

• Thomas L. McKinney - A New Mexico gunman who was also a lawman, accompanied Pat Garrett to the shoot-out with Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881.

• Sherman W. McMasters (1853-??)- McMasters was an outlaw turned lawman who would become one of the six men involved in the Earp Vendetta Ride. It is unknown when or how he died.

• William Meade - A gunman, he shot J.E. "Dobe" Johnson on February 24, 1884 in Hillsboro, New Mexico.

• Colonel Thomas Means - A gunman, he was lynched on January 1, 1867 for attempting to murder his father-in-law in Taos, New Mexico.

• Augustus “Gus”  Menczer (1856-1882) - A gunman and saloon owner, he killed several men after a shoot-out with his business partner in Raton, New Mexico in 1882. A mob lynched him on June 28, 1882.

• Felipe Mes - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he rode with the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878.

• John Middleton (1854?-1882?) - Middleton fought with the Regulators in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico . He survived but what he did afterwards is uncertain.

• John "Happy Jack" Morco - A gunman and lawman in Ellsworth, Kansas . He he killed in a gunfight there with Policeman J. C. Brown.

• Frank McNab - (18??-1878) - A member of the Regulators in the Lincoln County War, McNab, was killed in April, 1878 by Seven Rivers cowboys.

• James B. Miller, aka: Killin' Jim, Killer Miller, Jim the Killer, Deacon Miller (1866-1909) - Killing his first man when he just 18, Miller became a hired gun in the 1880s, a "career" he would continue for the next two decades. He served as an occasional lawman in Pecos, Texas.  He killed Sheriff Bud Frazer and was suspected of forty other killings including Pat Garrett and A.A. Bobbitt. On April 19, 1909, he was hanged by vigilantes in Ada, Oklahoma.

• Captain John Miller – A gunman, he killed 32 men in his life before he was killed in 1888 by John Ables, a tenant on his farm in Jonesboro, Indian Territory, who claimed Miller attacked him.

• S.C. Miller - A gunman, he shot John Saun in November 1885 in San Marcial, New Mexico.

• Alexander H. Mills - A gunman who fought in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he rode with the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878.

• Ramon Montoya - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he rode with the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878.

• James "Jim" Moon (18??-1881) - Frontier gambler, saloon owner, and gunfighter in Kansas and Colorado, Moon was killed in a shootout in front of his Ocean Oyster Saloon in Denver on June 16, 1881.

• Lester Moore - A gunman who was killed in Tombstone, Arizona.

• Thomas Moore - A gunman in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico, he rode with the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878.

• Joe Morgan - A gunman and lawman, he fought Deputy Sheriff Ben Williams in Las Cruces, New Mexico on September 15, 1895, with Albert Fall. He was later a deputy sheriff and Oliver Lee supporter.

• William "Buck" Morton - A member of Jesse Evans Gang and a Dolan/Murphy employee during New Mexico's Lincoln County War . He was killed by the Regulators on March 9, 1878 in Agua Negra Canyon, New Mexico.

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