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• Jack Hays Taylor - A gunfighter and brother to Phillip Taylor, Jack killed a cavalry soldier and became a fugitive in the Sutton-Taylor feud of South Texas. Later, he was ambushed and killed by a Sutton posse on August 23, 1869.

• Jim Taylor (18??-1875) - A gunman, Jim Taylor led the Taylor faction in the Taylor-Sutton feud after his father, Pitkin Taylor’s death in 1873. He gunned down several men and was killed in December, 1875.

• Phillip Taylor, aka: Doboy (18??-1871) - A gunman, Taylor participated in the Sutton-Taylor feud, and was gunned down in November, 1871 near Kerrville, Texas.

• Pitkin Taylor (18??-1873) - A gunman, Pitkin led the Taylors in the Taylor-Sutton feud which began in 1867. He was shot outside his home by the Suttons in October 1872, but lingered on until his death in March, 1873.

• William Taylor - The son of Pitkin Taylor, William participated in the Taylor-Sutton feud, killing numerous men along with his brother, Jim.  Later, he rode his relative, John Wesley Hardin, was captured, and sent to prison in 1877.

• Kyle Terry - A Texas gunman, Terry killed Henry Williams in February,  1886 in Houston, Texas, shotgunned Ned Gibson on Jan. 21, 1888, at Wharton. Volney Gibson shot and killed Terry on Jan. 21, 1890, in Galveston.

• Edwin Tewksbury (18??-1904) - A gunman in the Pleasant Valley War between feuding factions, the Grahams and Tewsburys of Arizona, Edwin helped kill John Graham on August 17, 1887.  A jury found Tewksbury guilty in his absence and Sheriff Mulvenon set out to arrest the man, but he had fled into the hills. Amazingly, he later became constable of Globe County, then deputy sheriff of Gila County. He died of natural causes in Globe, Arizona in 1904

• James “Jim” Tewksbury (18??-1889) - A gunman in the Pleasant Valley War between feuding factions, the Grahams and Tewsburys of Arizona, he killed several members of the Graham faction. He died of consumption  in 1889.

• Benjamin "Ben" Thompson, aka: Shotgun Ben (1842-1884) - A gunman and lawman in Texas, Thompson served as city marshal of Austin, Texas, where it is said he killed thirty-two men. He and his friend King Fisher were both killed in San Antonio in March, 1884.

• William “Texas Billy” Thompson (1845-1888) - Brother to more famous gunman Ben Thompson, Billy was described as “mean, vicious, vindictive and totally unpredictable.”

• John Y. Thorton - A member of the John Kinney Gang during New Mexico's Lincoln County War. He died of natural causes in Roswell, New Mexico on August, 16, 1919.

• Frank Thurmond - A gunman, Thurmond shot and killed Dan Baxter in August, 1881 in Deming, New Mexico.

• Thomas Tate Tobin (1823–1904) - Frontiersman, mountain man and gunman, Tobin was shot and wounded by Kit Carson's son, William. Though Tobin survived, he never really recovered. He died in 1904.

• Tom Tucker - A gunman in the Pleasant Valley War in Arizona, Tucker later joined Oliver Lee in his feud in Tularosa, New Mexico.

• Ben Turner - A gunman employed by the Horrell brothers in the Horrell-Higgins feud in the 1870s. He was gunned down by angry citizens in December 1873.

• Marion F. Turner - A gunfighter in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico and Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff. He was indicted with John Jones for the murder of Alexander McSween on July 19, 1878 but was later given amnesty and was thought to have moved to California.

• Davis "Dave" Tutt (1839-1865) - Gaining his gunfighting experience in the Tutt-Everett Feud of Arkansas, it would do him no good, when he came up against Wild Bill Hickok. Tutt was shot and killed by Hickok on July 21, 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.

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• Frank Valley - A Texas gunman and cowboy on the LS ranch in Tascosa, Texas, Valley was killed by Len Woodruff in 1886.

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