Jack Helm (??-1873) - Texas cowboy, Confederate soldier, gunfighter, and lawman, Helm was said to have once killed a black man for whistling a Yankee song during the Civil War. At wars end, he worked for cattle baron, Abel Head “Shanghai” Pierce, but became a captain in the Texas State Police in 1869, tasked with aiding the Union forces in Reconstruction. In this capacity, he soon got caught up in the Sutton-Taylor Feud in DeWitt County and began attacking members of the Taylor Faction. In the summer of 1869, Helm and his men carried on a reign of terror in Bee, San Patricio, Wilson, DeWitt, and Goliad counties to such a degree that the Galveston News reported that they had killed 21 persons in two months, but handed over just 10 men to civil authorities. Helm continued to ambush and kill until a public outcry caused him to be discharged from the State Police in December, 1870. However, he continued to serve as the Sheriff of DeWitt County, killing more members of the Taylor Faction. Helm later moved to Albuquerque, Texas, but was tracked down by Jim Taylor and John Wesley Hardin and killed in July, 1873.

Fred R. Higgins - Commissioned as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in Arizona in the 1890's, Higgens, along with seven other posse men set out after the Black Jack Christian Gang, who had attempted to rob the International Bank of Nogales, Arizona on August 6, 1896. When the lawmen came upon their hideout in the San Simon Valley, a gunfight erupted and splinters were showered into Higgins face. However, the lawman persevered, returned the fire, and killed outlaw Bob Hays. However, Black Jack Christian and two other outlaws escaped. Still on their tail the following April, they tracked the fugitives to a cave near Clifton, Arizona and yet another gunfight erupted. Christian was killed, but two others were able to flee. After the turn of the century, Higgins became the sheriff of Chaves County, New Mexico.

George W. Hindman (18??-1878)  - Originally from Texas, where he worked as a cowboy, Hindman made his way to New Mexico in 1875. There, he hired on at a ranch owned by Robert Casey in Lincoln County. A few years later, he took a position as a deputy under Sheriff William Brady, just before the onset of the notorious Lincoln County War . On February 18, 1878, he rode in the posse that killed John Tunstall, which ignited the bloody feud. Some six weeks later, on April 1, 1878, while Sheriff Brady and Hindman wer walking down Lincoln's main street, they were ambushed by Billy the Kid and some of his cohorts. Both lawmen were killed.

Edward O. Hogue (1847-1877) - Born in France in 1847, Hogue immigrated to the United States and in 1872, he became a policeman in Ellsworth, Kansas and later served as city marshal. When the police force was terminated over the Whitney-Thompson affair, Hogue was left to make arrests on his own. However, in 1873, he lost the election for sheriff. Two years later he was working as a deputy sheriff at Dodge City, Kansas. After wards he made his way to Wyoming, where he died at the age of 30.

Cassius "Cash" M. Hollister (1845-1884) - Born near Cleveland, Ohio, Hollistermade his way to Kansas in 1877 and was elected mayor of Caldwell, Kansas on October 28, 1879, a position he held until April, 1880. He was appointed a  U.S. Deputy Marshal in 1883 and just a few months later was involved in the Hunnewell Gunfight, in which one man was killed and another seriously wounded. On November 21`, 1883, he and Ben Wheeler killed a man named Chet Van Meter who was resisting arrest. He resigned as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in September, 1884, but continued to serve as a deputy sheriff of Sumner county, Kansas. On October 18, 1884, he went to arrest a man named Bob Cross, who was wanted for abducting the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, Joshua Hannum. When Hollister arrived at Cross' home and attempted to talk the man out of a house,  Cross refused to surrender. Hollister threatened to set his house on fire, at which time Cross fired through the door, killing Hollister.

Tom Horn, aka: James Hicks (1861-1903) - Born in Memphis, Missouri on November 21, 1861, Horn's father was a strict disciplinarian and Tom ran away at the age of 14, heading west. By the time he was 15 he was an army scout and involved in many campaigns for more than a decade, including Geronimo's surrender in 1886. He then wandered through the gold fields and became a ranch hand. In 1890, he joined the Pinkerton Agency and using his gun with lethal effectiveness tracked down dozens of outlaws and killed 17 men. In 1894, he had made his way to Wyoming as was working as a cattle detective for the beef barons, who were engulfed in what is known as the Johnson County War. It was at this time that he began to offer out his services as a hired gunslinger. For each cattle rustler he shot, he charged $500-$600 and quickly proved to be a methodical man hunter and ruthless killer. Changing tracks in 1898, he joined the cavalry in support of the Spanish-American War, where he was in charge of Teddy Roosevelt's pack trains.

Tom Horn fashions his own noose before being

hanged in 1903.

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