Texas Rangers
John R. Abernathy – Wolf Catcher & Lawman
Adoeette, aka: Big Tree Kiowa Warrior
Clay Allison – New Mexico Bad Boy
William Davis “Dave” Allison – Lifetime Lawman
David L. Anderson, aka Billy Wilson – Outlaw & Lawman
Hugh Anderson – Texas Cowboy Gunfighter
John Barclay Armstrong – Texas Lawman
Ira Aten – Texas Ranger and Cowboy
Cullen Montgomery Baker – A Very Bad Man
Bud Ballew – Gunfighter & Lawman of Oklahoma
Sam Bass Gang
Seaborn Barnes – Member of the Sam Bass Gang
Bennie “Blanche” Barrow – Member of the Barrow Gang
Roy Bean – The Law West of the Pecos
William Becknell – Father of the Santa Fe Trail
Bonnie & Clyde – Stars of the Public Enemy Era
James Bowie – Dying at the Alamo
Elijah S. Briant – School Teacher Turned Lawman
Jack L. Bridges – Kansas Lawman
Henry Newton Brown – Outlaw Marshal of Kansas
Charles “Charlie” Bryant – Trigger Finger Outlaw
Frank Canton – Cowboy, Outlaw, and Lawman
William Carr – Heroic Deputy or Outlaw?
Nate Champion – Killed in the Johnson County War
Jesse Chisholm – Blazing a Trail
John Chisum – Cattle Baron on the Pecos
Mannie Clements, Jr. – Lawman and Cattleman
Emmanuel Clements, Jr.
Emmanuel “Mannen” Clements, Sr.- A Bad Texas Hombre
Phil Coe – Gunfighter and Gambler
The Comanche Indians – Horsemen of the Plains
Cynthia Ann Parker – White Woman in Comanche World
Comancheros of the Llano Estacado
Scott Cooley – Texas Ranger Turned Killer
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado – Spanish Conquistador
Timothy Isaiah Courtright -Texas Lawman and Outlaw
Everett Creekmore – Lawman Turned Outlaw
David “Davy” Crockett – Frontier Hero
Davy Crockett – Gunfighter & Outlaw
Timothy Courtright – Lawman and Outlaw
William R. Cruger – Southern Lawman
Lottie Deno – Queen of the Paste Board Flappers
William “Billy” Dixon – Texas Plains Pioneer
Fred Dodge – Undercover Detective
Andres Dorantes de Carranza – Spanish Explorer
Bill Earhart – Feuding in the Southwest
James Walker Fannin
James Walker Fannin – Fighting in the Texas Revolution
John King Fisher – Texas Gunman, Outlaw, Lawman
Bud Frazer and the Frazer-Miller Feud
Buck Garrett – Gunfighter and Lawman
Pat Garrett – An Unlucky Lawman
John H. Good – Gunfighting Rancher
Charles Goodnight – Blazing the Cattle Trails
Frank Hamer – Stopping Bonnie & Clyde
Raymond Hamilton – Hanging With the Barrow Gang
John Wesley Hardin & The Shootist Archetype
John Coffee Hays – Soldier and Texas Ranger
Pink Higgens – Texas Gunfighter
Doc Holliday – Deadly Doctor of the West
The Lawless Horrell Boys of Lampasas
Benjamin Horrell – Texas Gunfighter
Samuel Houston – Texas President
Bose Ikard – Black Cowboy in Texas
John B. Jones – Commanding the Texas Rangers
Bill Jordan – Gunfighter Legend
John B. Jones – Commanding the Texas Rangers
George “Machine Gun” Kelly – Prohibition Era Outlaw
Matthew Kimes – Leader of the Kimes Gang
Jean Lafitte – A “Hero” Pirate
John M. Larn – Vigilante, Outlaw, Lawman
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Sieur de La Salle – French Explorer
The Lee Gang – Murder and Thievery on the Texas Border
Joseph “Joe” S. LeFors – Fighting Battles with the Wild Bunch
Kitty Leroy – Lady Gambler & Gunfighter
Buckskin Frank Leslie – Another Tombstone Rowdy
William Sidney “Cap” Light – Texas Marshal & Soapy Smith Man
Ben Lilly: Bears, Blades & Contradictions
Wild Bill Longley – A Dangerous Man in Dangerous Times
Harry Love – Leading the California Rangers
“Cock-Eyed” Frank Loving – Dueling Gunfighter
Oliver Loving – Pioneer Cowboy
“Rowdy Joe” Lowe – Saloon Gunfighter
James “Tex” Lucas – Bank Robber & Car Thief
Bat Masterson – King of the Gun Players
William J. McGrew – A Tragic Affair in Montgomery
George McJunkin – Black Cowboy & Amateur Archaeologist
Sherman McMasters – Outlaw or Lawman?
Henry Methvin – Barrow Gang Member
James Miller – Hired Killer of the Old West
Jeff Davis Milton – Long-Term Lawman
Audie Murphy – America’s Greatest Hero
Thomas “Big Foot” O’Folliard- Jesse James Cohort
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro – Cowboy Performer
Bass Outlaw – Lawman, Gunfighter, & Texas Ranger
Bass (Baz) Outlaw – Excerpt from the book Whiskey River Ranger
Martin Parmer – Woodsman Turned Texas Hero
Ferd Patterson – Living and Dying by the Gun
Junius “June” Peak – Soldier & Texas Ranger
Captain Alonso Alvarez de Pineda – Spanish Explorer
Harry Longabaugh “Sundance Kid” and Etta Place
Etta Place – Hanging With the Sundance Kid
Fannie Porter – San Antonio’s Famous Madam
William “Bill” Pickett – Texas Bull-Dogger
Pecos Bill – A Legend of the American West
John William Poe – Hunting Billy the Kid
Bass Reeves – Black Hero Marshal
Barney Riggs – Infamous West Texas Gunfighter
Johnny Ringo – Tombstone Rowdy
Ben Robertson – Lawman Turned Outlaw
A.J. Royal – One Bad Pecos County Sheriff
George Scarborough – Sheriff & U.S. Deputy Marshal
Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock- Cowboy Gunfighter
John Selman – Wicked Lawman and Vicious Outlaw
Luke Short – A Dandy Gunfighter
Charles Siringo – Cowboy Detective
Sally Skull – The Scariest Siren in Texas
Texas John Slaughter – Taming Arizona
Six Shooter Bill Smith – Little Known Desperado
Pete Spence – Escaping the Wrath of the Earps
Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice
“Texas John” Slaughter – Lawman
Dallas Stoudenmire – Taming El Paso
William E. “Billy” Sutton – Rancher, Lawman, and Gunfighter
Creed Taylor – Soldier and Ranger
John “Jack” Hays Taylor- Fighting in the Sutton-Taylor Feud
The Texas Rangers – Order Out of Chaos
Heck Thomas – Tough Law in Indian Territory
Ben Thompson – Lawman and Gunman
Ben Thompson and Other Noted Gunmen by Bat Masterson
Texas Billy Thompson – Constant Trouble
William Travis – Texas Hero Who Died at the Alamo
Joseph “Joe” W. Ventioner – U.S. Deputy Marshal
“Texas Jack” Vermillion – Old West Gunfighter
Bigfoot Wallace
“Bigfoot” Wallace – A Texas Folk Hero
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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