John Selman

Children from El Paso in the late Nineteenth Century remembered John Selman as the kindly town constable who would hand out candy as he walked down the street. Citizens of Lincoln County, New Mexico fifteen years earlier remembered John as the leader of the "Selman Scouts", a band of killers who made the depredations of Billy the Kid and his friends look like an evening concert of the Vienna's Boy Choir. Of course, western history buffs know John as the man who shot John Wesley Hardin.

For a wee bit more about one of the Old West's most deadly but certainly lesser known gunmen, click here.