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• Wiley G. Haines (1860-1928) - Undersheriff, County P, Oklahoma Territory; U.S. Deputy Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Chief, Osage Indian Police.

• "Jesse Lee "Red" Hall (1849-1911) - Texas Ranger and soldier in the Spanish American War.

• Dee Harkey (1866-1948) - Cowboy, lawman, rancher, and gunfighter in Texas and New Mexico.

• James Harris - A gunman and former lawman, he was killed while dueling Bob Majors at Santa Cruz, California in the 1880s.

• Caleb "Loss" Lawson Hart (1862-1934)  - U.S. Deputy Marshal who killed Bill Dalton near Elk, Oklahoma.

• John Coffee "Jack" Hays (1817-1883) - A captain of the Texas Rangers, Hays fought in the Indian and the Mexican-American wars.

• Jack Helm (??-1873) - Confederate soldier, cowboy, gunfighter and lawman, who served as the captain of the Texas State Police Force during reconstruction and fought in the Sutton-Taylor Feud. He was killed by Jim Taylor and John Wesley Hardin in July, 1873.

• James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876) -  Marshal in Abilene and Hays City, Kansas. Better known as a gunfighter. Killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876.

• James Hicks - See Tom Horn

• Fred R. Higgins - U.S. Deputy Marshal in Arizona and Chaves County, New Mexico Sheriff.

• George W. Hindman (18??-1878)  - A deputy under Sheriff William Brady in Lincoln County, New Mexico, Hindman rode in the posse that killed John Tunstall February 18, 1878, instigating the Lincoln County War. In turn, Hindman was killed by Billy the Kid and John Middleton on April 1, 1878.

• Edward O. Hogue (1847-1877) -  Ellsworth and Dodge City, Kansas lawman.

• John Henry "Doc" Holliday (1851-1887) - Deputized by Virgil Earp in Tombstone, Arizona to help in stopping the crimes of the Clanton Gang, which culminated with a gunfight at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October, 1881. He died in a of tuberculosis in Colorado in 1887.

• Cassius "Cash" M. Hollister (1845-1884) - While serving as a Sumner County, Kansas, Deputy Sheriff, Hollister was killed by a man named Bob Cross.

• William "Hunky Dory" Holmes (18??-1889) - A  lawman, served as a deputy sheriff under Sheriff Glen Reynolds of Gila County, Arizona. He was murdered by the Apache Kid and his men, while transporting the outlaw to the Yuma Prison.

• Tom Horn, aka: James Hicks (1860-1903) - Horn joined the Pinkerton Agency in 1890 and was extremely effective, tracking down dozens of outlaws. Later, he was working as a cattle detective in Wyoming and became embroiled in the Johnson County War. It was at this time that he began to offer out his services as a hired gunslinger.  When hired in 1903 to kill a sheepherder in Wyoming, he killed the man's 14-year old son instead.  This time, Horn didn't get away with it -- he was arrested and hanged on November 20, 1903.  

• Joe Horner - See Frank M. Canton

• Neil Howie (1834-1874) - Montana lawman and vigilante.

• Thomas J. Hueston (18??-1893) - U.S. Deputy Marshal in Oklahoma Territory, Hueston was killed in the line of duty in the Ingalls, Oklahoma gun battle with the Doolin-Dalton Gang.

• John Reynolds Hughes (1855-1946) - Hughes joined the Texas Rangers in 1887 and was made captain in 1893. He arrested and killed numerous outlaws during his career. He committed suicide in 1946, at the age of eighty-nine.

• James B. Hume (1827-1904) - Marshal, Placerville, California; Undersheriff, El Dorado County, California; Sheriff, El Dorado County, California; Chief Detective, Wells, Fargo & Company.

• Alexander Cameron Hunt (1825-1894) - U.S. Marshal and politician in Colorado.

• J. Frank Hunt - (18??-1880) - Caldwell, Kansas deputy marshal, he was shot to death by an unidentified man on October 11, 1880.

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