Editing Gunslinger (section)

==Famous Gunfighters==

* '''Wyatt & Virgil Earp''' - Virgil Earp was a deputy US Marshal who formed a posse with his brother Wyatt (a gambler) and Doc Holiday (a dentist) to confront a group of cattle thieves in Tombstone.  Although charged with murder they were ultimately exonerated. 
* '''John Henry "Doc" Holliday''' - a Dentist-turned-gambler and gunfighter, Doc was close friends with the Earps as noted above. Doc was known to be fearless and a skilled marksman; having contracted tuberculosis, he was much more daring in fights, in part because without his gun skills he'd be too weak to fistfight. Being the scariest man in the room worked in his favor, as in reality he only ever killed three men.
* '''James "Wild Bill" Hickok''' - Wrestled a bear and won.  Killed a guy over a debt then paid the widow in remorse.  Killed a gambler in a duel, was [[What|charged with murder but became a deputy marshal]] in Kansas a couple weeks later.  Served as a lawman in various capacities in Kansas, racking up kills for 4 years until he was fired.  Pissed off a gambler in Deadwood who shot him the next day.
* '''Jesse James''' - Fought as a Confederate guerrilla in the war, then spent ten years robbing stagecoaches in the midwest.  Recruited a new guy into his gang who shot him for the reward. And yes, the dub names of [[Pokémon|those two Team Rocket goons]] were derived from him.
* '''Henry McCarty (Billy the Kid)''' - Cattle thief who participated in the Lincoln County War.  Caught and sentenced to death, but escaped from jail killing two deputies in the process.  The sheriff who caught him the first time tracked him down again and shot him.
* '''Robert Parker (Butch Cassidy) & Harry Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid)''' - The principal members of a group of train robbers who hit several payroll deliveries until Union Pacific hired the Pinkerton Agency to hunt them down.  Escaped to South America where they tried to rob a payroll courier, which ended in a shootout with a Bolivian cavalry regiment.
* [[Officio Assassinorum|'''The Pinkerton Agency''']]: A detective agency and private military contractor that was basically the 19th century version of the FBI and Secret Service except for-hire and with even more dubious ethics.  If you piss off a bank or railroad or president badly enough, odds are good they'll hire the Pinkertons to find some way to shoot you in self defense. Fun fact: these guys are still around in the present day as a security firm, though their old strikebreaking days continue to haunt them as [[Wizards_of_the_Coast#The_April_2023_Incident_AKA_How_to_Turn_a_Children.27s_Card_Game_into_the_fucking_Italian_Mafia|Wizards of the Coast infamously demonstrated]].
* '''William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill)''' - one of the first cowboys to help form the popular conception of the gunslinger; he was a skilled hunter and scout, and later used his marksman skills in his traveling show "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" where he brought together other skilled frontiersmen to wow audiences, bringing the West into the popular consciousness of the rest of the world.
* '''Bass Reeves''' - First black US Marshall, with an exemplary record of arresting 3,000 fugitives. He was a very skilled marksman and could speak several Native American languages, making him the best man for the job anytime an outlaw disappeared into the Indian Territory. He's said to be the inspiration behind the Lone Ranger.