The Complete List of Old West Lawmen - Last Name Begins with "H-I"

Old West Lawmen - H-I

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

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. More ...

James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

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James Hicks - See Tom Horn

Tom Hill - Serving as a deputy marshal in Lincoln County, New Mexico Hill was a member of the posse that killed John Tunstall on February 18, 1878, instigating the Lincoln County War.

George 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.

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 (18??-1884) - While serving as a Sumner County, Kansas Deputy Sheriff, Hollister went to arrest a man named Bob Cross, who was wanted for abducting the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, Joshua Hannum. On October, 18, 1884, Hollister arrived at Cross' home and attempted to the talk the man out of a house. When Cross refused to surrender, Hollister threatened to set his house on fire, at which time Cross fired through the door, killing Hollister.

W.A. "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 (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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Afterwards, Horn returned to his murdering ways and when he was hired to kill a sheepherder, he killed his 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

John R. Hughes, Lawman John Reynolds Hughes (1855–1946) - Hughes was born on February 11, 1855, in Henry County, near Cambridge, Illinois. His family would later move to Kansas. At the age of 14, he left home to work on a neighboring cattle ranch before heading south to Indian Territory , where he lived among the Choctaw and Osage Indians for four years. By 1874, he was living in the Comanche Nation in the Fort Sill area and became friends with Quanah Parker. After six years in Indian Territory and a brief stint as a trail driver on the Chisholm Trail, Hughes bought a farm near Liberty Hill, Texas , and entered the horse business. In 1886, he set out to find a band of horse thieves who had been operating in the area and tracked them to New Mexico, returning both the thieves and the horses to Texas . This gained him the attention of the Texas Rangers, which he joined in 1887. Hughes was a lawman before joining the Texas Rangers, Company D, in 1887. He was made captain in 1893 and during his career arrested and killed numerous outlaws. He committed suicide in 1946, at the age of eighty-nine.

James Hume James B. Hume (1827-1904) - Hailing from Delaware County, New York, Hume left his home in 1850 to seek his fortune in the California goldfields. He began his career as a lawman in Hangtown (now Placerville,) California in 1862 when he was appointed City Marshal. In 1864 he was appointed Under sheriff of El Dorado County, a position he held for five years. In 1869 he was elected Sheriff after having won the election in 1868. In 1873 James B. Hume became the Chief Special Officer of Wells, Fargo & Company and to protect the gold the stages carried, he had it casted in balls so heavy the robbers couldn't move them. His reputation as a relentless pursuer of lawbreakers was soon bolstered by his arrest of the famous stage robber, Black Bart.

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