TOP 10 DEADLIEST Gunslingers In The History Of OLD WEST
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Learn about the most legendary and deadliest gunfighters in the history of the Wild West in this must-see video.
From iconic pistol duels to the true stories of infamous outlaws like Wild Bill Hickok, this video will take you on a journey through the lawless frontier.
Don't miss out on these fascinating tales of bravery and betrayal - watch until the end to discover the gun-toting heroes and villains of the Old West.
You forgot Arthur Morgan and John Marston.
Morgan was for sure a skilled gunman he was lightning fast with a Colt Pistol, and an exellent horseman...
Facts bro those two were badass
Thanks bro i was looking for this 😂😂
Sam bass story was very close I think they’re must be some relation there or they took inspiration from his story to make the game
You forgot the og red…
Don’t forget Emmet Granger, Flaco Hernandez, and Black Belle. Although personally Arthur Morgan is my favorite. Charles Smith is very underrated in this discussion as well
Black belles is based on the gunslinger belle dude
Billy midnight is a true legend as well!
Shut up, it's not funny
@@Reddeadcrocodile1234belle starr
Most of the people you listed are trash at gunslinging and not deadly, they're plumbers that can't even shoot or not man enough for a duel (except Charles and Arthur)
Who fantasized going back in time and just ride from town to town being immortal, doing what ever pleases you. Well, going back to RDR 2 I guess.
Yeah I pass on that bro, even Arthur gets 🍇 in the game, now imagine me irl 😂
@@SupremeOracle but then u go back with a little something called a 12 gauge pump action
@@HighBluey no matter how many times you shoot him, you can't ever unfuck yourself bro 💯
The Wild West really sucked tbh lol. You probably wouldn’t last long at all. Most of us wouldn’t.
@@HighBluey yes but you can't unpenetrate yourself
You forgot John marston and Arthur Morgan best gun slingers ever.
Not real
@@aldogonzalez137yes they real
@@aldogonzalez137they're very real brother. Redemption is something that's highly underrated nowadays.
@@outlaw._.lazinesthey arnt real gun slingers
word 4 word, bar for bar. make up ur own jokes
Billy the Kid was employed by the rancher who was murdered. The movie Young Guns was based on those events
You are correct the story line was spot on what was not was the Portrayal of Billy, he was not a Charming, good looking young man with exceptional skills with guns, in fact the opposite is true he couldnt shoot a Pistol worth a damn, he was able to ambush to murder men at distance with a rifle, but if he had to actually get into a gun fight he surely would of been killed very quickly.
Several of these people like Wyatt Earp were never know for being particularly good with a gun. Earp knew how to use one but he was only in a couple of shoot outs in his life and was more know for his fist fighting and wrestling skills than his gun use.
This list is ill informed. Doc and Frank Leslie could have killed Wyatt with little effort.
You are correct sir.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaws Cochise County Cowboys I think he was very good with a gun these guys started learning how to use a gun at a very young age like 5 years old there were a lot of talented gun men in those days it was part of their lives your gun was your pillow. in order to survive it is true there were not as many gunfights in those days as they claim. you would have been stupid if you were going around acting a fool you would not have lived very long :)
Earp is also known for knocking drunks out from behind
Very True, most of the Tall Tales we read about are just that, Tall Tales, very few if any of these men had any special skills with pistols, or had any shooting abilities, it takes no skill to ambush a man, shoot him in the back, or attack them from behind, which is what most of them did, Earp was in fact not good with any weapons, at all, Men Like Ben Thompson, and Clay Allison were in fact true Gun Fighter, experts with the Fast Draw and deadly Shots, Billy The Kid and Butch Cassidy preferred to Shoot men at distance, ambushing them , murdering them, they knew they would have no prayer of surviving a gun fight at close range.
You made a mistake! You began the story about Sam Bass with a picture that was actually of Jesse James.
Yes, and then no mention of Jesse James. One of the most notorious of them all. 😤😤
@@bigdeal6852one of jesse james hideouts is like a 15 minute ride through the woods from my house
@@r6yoda200 I'm about an hour away !
Don’t worry about it we also get a woodie harrelson hickock in like minute 2
@@r6yoda200Jesse James is my seventh cousin and I found his signature in a cave he hid in
Hickock was not a outlaw but recognized by all as the best pistolero in old west. He constantly practiced his shooting.A class act and Union scout who would go behind the lines disguised as a rebel. A decent man.Definetly Not a outlaw. Shooting and killing Tutt after Tutt fired First with One shot at 75 yards with a cap and ball pistol Could not be equaled by anyone today trying same thing with same weapon. Try it some Time.
That's debatable mccanles for example no one would bring their 12 yr old son to a gunfight.
It's all made up bull shit
"but recognized by all as the best pistolero in old west." not exactly. He and Ben Thompson had an ongoing issue with each other and taunted each other mutliple times but it never went beyond that because neither of them or anyone else was sure who would win if they went after each other. Bat Masterson who did know both of them said Thompson was the better gun hand.
He was known for making a miraculous shot revealed to be hardly miraculous given the type of gun ammunition and gun used. Give someone 10 balls at 75 yards one is bound to hit. Not very miraculous
I stood in a spot one of said actual spots on that SpringfieldMo Square Wild Bill fired.
As a local Missourian it is really offensive that you didn't put Jesse James on this list. Dude was an outlaw legend.
about the best gunslingers not outlaws lol
Jesse and Billy are famous world wide. I'm a historian in Brazil and Jesse W. James is my research focus. Not only an controversial figure, outlaw, local hero, gunslinger - he was a perpetrator of the "Wild West" myth around the world - a true Legend.
His brother Frank was great too. It's just Jesse never quit the outlaw life and Frank did. This is also the reason why Jesse is more popular. Also Jesse was shot in the back off his head by a coward Robert Ford. There is even a movie about that.@@fabiodiascerruti3464
@@fabiodiascerruti3464he was a nobody in the gunslinging world
@@Monkey.D.Uno.still led a prominent gang so it’s weird how he isn’t mentioned at least once
17:00 2 legends! Arthur Morgan and John Marston
Not having doc holiday in this list is crazy
That’s what I’m saying. Honestly he’s my favorite
Doc Holliday wasn’t really among one the deadliest gunslingers. More like one of the most dangerous. He had nothing to lose. Otherwise that AI generated list puts people on there who didn’t even have 10 kills.
I've noticed they put the picture of Sam Bass wrong. That's the picture of Jesse James.
You're right. There were also lot of other pictures shown representing people that they were talking about but the pictures were inaccurate
They showed 2 of Billy the kid but as far as I know only one photo has been authenticated.The one where he’s holding the Croquet stick.
Billy The Kid killed his first man when he was 12. It was the town bully and was constantly harassing Billy who was small statured. The bully was sitting on Billy's chest and Billy pulled the bully's gun and shot him. He was confined to the back room of the jail but escaped through the hole for a stove pipe..He ran until he was taken in by John Tunsrall..
You forgot Arthur Morgan.
To miss Doc Holliday is a mistake ,he was a fearless with gun or knife !
yes. but not like the rest of this guys. at that time alot of people were good with a gun or knife but you never hear of them. you only really heard of doc because of wyatt. there are others stories about doc. but most because of wyatts stories
Frank Leslie and Doc should have been on the list
Doc was a dentist, not a gunslinger. Tombstone is full of shit
Doc was a fast draw but a piss poor shot more than a couple feet away. I could easily beat him in a duel at 15 yds
@@Camopar87wyaat said in a later interview that doc was the best with a pistol he ever saw and he saw hickock in action
Harding's grave is here in El Paso, he had a law office in a building that burned down some of the brass recovered had his name engraved in the plates.
One valuable thing about all of this is these are only the famous one's. With it being an Era of a lot of stuff not being recorded I'm sure there are some that were much better and more feared. Just wasn't recorded like these or not known nearly as much. Doc holiday should be on this list by the way. Gambler and dentist not so much gunslinger, but he was very good and heavily feared.
Doc Holiday was an interesting man for sure, high IQ, a Dentist, he spoke Latin, Spanish, and French, He could recite large amounts of Bible Passages, from Memory, and he was Absolutely Deadly with Pistols, he carried 2 sometimes 3 pistols on his person at all times, Wyatt Earp said once, I would hate to ever go up against Doc...He did not like Any of the Clanton's at all they called Doc a " Fancy Pants City Boy " He in return called the Clanton's Ignorant Apes, this is what started the tension between them, Holiday usually tried to avoid a gun fight but would hold nothing back if he was forced into one, He once said that problem with those fools at The Ok Corral was nothing....
I think you’re forgetting Red Harlo
What about Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen??
Sorry but he got taken out by Marty....er I mean Eastwood... Clint Eastwood
Pack macerson was a bad ass
Most of these gun slingers have had movies made about them, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, The James gang, etc..... But never one about John Wesley Hardin
He has a song though
That was the comment I made, I'd love to see that movie.
There was a movie about Hardin. The actor was rock Hudson based however loosely on his autobiography which he wrote while in prison supposedly. I too would like to see a newer movie about him.
@@rocketman7887yep that’s right. I sat through the whole thing.
Harden was put in the movie mavrick with mel gibson) was good to see them put him in.
George Fraser was an interesting character after beating a Fame gunman in t wo gun fights he ran when Miller was shot directly in the chest and still got back to his feet what he didn't know was Miller was wearing a Steel vest similar to the rumor about Wyatt Earp also never being shot because he had to steel vest. So contrary to his friends claims of a steel vs the heat would be oppressive as you can see Jim Miller got by with it in a very hot place as well. Why was Jesse James picture showed when it was Sam bass' turn who was not a gunfighter he was a stagecoach and other robber.
If you mention wyatt earp why does everybody forget about bass reaves its said he made 3000 arrests in his time . More than all the lawmen put together and the victor of 27 gunfights . Lets not forget who the lone ranger was based on
Agree. But I don't know if they would consider him a Gunfighter /Outlaw. But I would definitely put him in a very recognizable class.
@@bigdeal6852 Not outlaw.lawman but definitely gunfighter after 27 kills . Its also worth mentioning that it is said bass reaves always let the other one draw first because he always wanted to take them alive
Bass Reeves' obituary made it very clear that he killed 14 men. Do you have any source for "27 gunfights?"
@@user-eh9rs4vb2o try the documentary Thereal lone ranger
For my money, Hardin is the most dangerous man on this list. I'd love to see a modern western made of his life.
Yes Indeed he was for sure bad news, men were terrified of him, Most Sheriff's and Deputies wanted nothing to with him, and would go out of their way to avoid him...
Where was Doc Holliday? Just wondering.
Moldering in the grave
The only kills Doc ever got credit for was O.K. Coral and after where was deputised
It’s speculated that Holliday killed Johnny Ringo, but it’s disputed
@@jon7968 Doc Holliday was credited with more kills than just the OK Corral Fight. Charles White in Fort Griffith Texas, Mike Gordon in Las Vegas New Mexico, Milt Joyce Tombstone AZ . He didn't kill Joyce but shot a revolver out of Joyce's hand putting a bullet through Joyce's hand doing it. And then shot a man named Parker who worked for Joyce as a bartender . Some Reported that Parker pulled out a Shot gun from behind the bar trying to aid Joyce and Holliday shot him behind the bar. Some Reports say Holliday shot him in the toe. But both men were shot and disarmed in the shootout but lived. Then The 3 accredited kills during the Ok Corral and vendetta ride With Earp . The 2 Mclaurys at the Ok Corral are said to be killed by Holliday and later Frank Stillwell in Tucson at the rail yard. Johnny Ringos death has been claimed to have been at the hands of Holliday. And it's been claimed to have been a suicide. But it's highly unlikely it was a suicide considering Johnny Ringos reputation and the fact that he and Holliday were going to gunfight a day or two earlier but others intervened stopping it . And then Ringo was found shot in the forehead above the left eye. And Ringo was right handed on top of not being known for suicidal thoughts. Bat Masterson along with Wyatt Earp and others who knew Holliday claimed he was a slight and frail temperate man but also the deadliest man with a pistol or knife they had ever known or seen use either. He had to leave both Georgia and later Dodge City Kansas after killing men in both over gambling disputes during his earliest known fights. Both with pistols and one with a knife.
Doc Holliday wasn't actually a rare skill with a gun like portrayed in Tombstone. He just didn't care if he died which made him dangerous.
dont forget arthur morgan and john marston
I’m actually related to John Wesley Hardin and he actually shot someone through a wall in a hotel because the guy in the other room was snoring and Hardin could not sleep.
That first picture of who you claim as Sam bass is not Sam bass but Jesse james
Orin Porter Rockwell...
Porter Rockwell scoffs at these low body counts...
I live in round and never knew the history behind sam bass and AW grimes. I drive on those roads frequently
Porter Rockwell :)
What are those movies in the beginning of the video , I recognized 3:10 to yuma. The one at 30 seconds? And 38 seconds
12:59 “I wouldn’t want to send a man to hell on a empty stomach” coldest line of all time 🥶
No Doc holiday wat????
I’m actually related to Wyatt Earp I can’t remember how but something about his mother or grandmother being my great great grandmother, something something like that, but I was waiting for him to be on the list😅
im related to jesse james but i cant full remember how just know what side of the family he was related to
@sheeplehunter505 no, I am one how related to us from our grandmothers side something about his moms last name
Not gonna mention The Sundance Kid?
How the hell is Wild Bill #10?
Clay Allison is the greatest gunslinger of the wild west. There a lot of myth regarding the wild west (Truth and legend), Billy the Kid is example of that.
well now. yes there is alot of Hollywood around billy. but dont get it twisted. he was deadly with his gun. he stood up for what he believed in. only killed like 4 to 6 men. but those who knew him all said the kid was deadly. for example look at what happened to Bob Olinger. shot with his own shotgun. both chambers dead before he hit the ground. billy is the most famous wild west outlaw because of his reputation of shooting, escaping jail, and the Lincoln county war. and the newspapers made him larger then life.
Clay Allison was a loudmouth.
His friend Mace Bowman was a faster draw.
Yes he was for sure a true gunfighter, his skill level was close to Doc Holiday's Allison scared the hell out of people and most all Law Enforcement, Sheriff's and Deputies avoided him at all cost's.
Don knotts
Related to Hardin on my mothers side. Heard stories about him since I was little. His descendants are still in Texas to this day. I honestly only watched the video to make sure he was in it. :D
I watched to see if they would mention the Dalton Gang as my husband is related to them through his mothers side as well as Billy the Kid... Long distant cousins.
I live near pollard Alabama where he once lived when he was in hiding
When wild Bill Hickok was shot by Jack McCall it was calamity Jane who was wild Bill's drinking buddy who captured McCall. A lot of people have wondered if wild Bill and calamity Jane slept together it seems highly unlikely as back in those days while bill was considered a nice-looking man. He had his pick of women in calamity Jane was somewhat manly. There was no down however that they were friends and drinking buddies.
Clay Allison was pretty much out of control Whow.
I am a real deal professional poker dealer. I deal poker for a living here at one of our casinos in Detroit and I love learning origins of the terminology I hear and use on a daily basis. I have yet to find someone that could tell me WHY /A/8/ is called the dead man's hand including myself but now I know. That's so cool lol thanks for the info dude! Gonna pass on the info and hopefully it'll merit a dollar or two tip haha
Hickok had a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's. So far as I know, no one knows what the fifth card was. Also, I don't know if he had the winning hand.
Aces and 8s was Wild Bill's hand as he played his last card game. Right before he was shot in the back of his head. For no reason. Was not conviction in the location because it was Indian territory but when he left that area he was bragging about the killing so they arrested him and conviction was to hang. And they definitely hung him. When they asked him to say his last words he said I am here to die not to give a speech!!!
It was made up story,it didn't appear in history untill 1926 the dead man's hand
You forgot about Wild Bill.
People forget there are accounts of gunfights being so close, clothes catch on fire I’ve also been to the town where Hickok was born, not to far from the Illinois river or even on it. Explains how he went south then west
Sam bass ended up in Denton county Tx and was a stable cleaner here in Denton Texas.. and we have the gun that killed him in the Denton Texas courthouse museum..and there's rumor out in Sanger Tx ( where there was outlaw hide outs ) and still in Denton county Tx..but the rumor is before he got shot Sam bass hid some spoils from his last robbery in the outlaw hideouts in Sanger..it's estimated at over a million+ and many people have tried to find it but no success yet
I’m surprised that Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo and Annie Oakley weren’t in this video
And Frank Leslie
Ringo wasn't shit. Frank Leslie or Doc could have shot them down at will.
Ringo was as ruthless as they come, he hated most everyone, and especially men he considered Fancy Dudes, he would pick, start fights hoping someone would draw on him he had few takers...
in the belle star story, the man robbing the bar (?) has two right hands. Image at 17:49
So Cool!!
17:05 the one random pic of John and Arthur💀
Where is Doc Holliday? Easily the deadliest gunslinger of all time. I call shenanigans.
Even Doc knew that Frank Leslie was better. Wyatt knew too.
For real, Holiday was in fact was a very bright , smart man, he also was very dangerous, as the Clanton's found out.
He wasn't captured he had a remarkable 6 since I'm talkin about Billy the kid. He and his gang surrendered when they smelled the bacon and eggs cooking as they were very hungry. And it should be mentioned that Billy the kid's death is also disputed as his sixth sense wouldn't allow him to roam around when strangers were there especially white strangers. He was in the company of a lot of Mexican friends who he seemed to prefer as well as poor white people what he did not like was the Richer white. Both deputy stated on their deathbed that they agreed it was the kid because Pat Garrett told them to. They said the man he shot was actually a half-breed and he had a full beard and the kid was not able to grow a beard only a mustache.
Yes I agree The man shot that night was not Billy.....
The title slide for Sam Bass is a picture of Jesse James
How could you forget rip van winkle and fenton Callahan
It's a great video my only complaint is why can't he pronounce his name of the city in Texas that starts with a P
Doc obviously was in tombstone. Arizona and New Mexico territories.
I Was Waiting For The One is "Arthur Morgan" Lmao😂
Where is my boy Arthur morgan
I think Johnny Ringo should be included,
Ringo was scum who just had a cool name.
Rango should have been mentioned but his reputation was Dirt.
I thought Porter Rockwell was gonna make it on there.
17:06 I noticed you snuck in a photo of Arthur Morgan and John Marston.
Miller is the most interesting person i’ve heard about
Agreed
That saloon in toyah must’ve fallen to the elements a long time ago, there isn’t nothing in toyah anymore, drive through toyah probably 4 times a week
Ah yes time to get some outfit ideas 💡
What about the fastest gun south of the border Landon rickets or the Dangerous Dutch vanderlin who was at one point the most wanted criminal in the United States Or maybe frank heck the youngest and fastest gun west of the grizzlies who started his killings at 6 years old man was born to be a killer and we can’t forget his famous stand off against sheriff Cole were he filled him with led within 2 seconds
This was so oh ho ho hum that I'm now going to paint my letterbox, and then watch it dry.
😂😂😂👏
Hickhock was way ahead of them all. A heart shot at 70" that dropped an opponent dead. Shot in the back by some low life, coward weasel.
Dan Bogan aka candy dan 💪💪💪
You forgot Arthur Morgan and John marston
John Wesley Hardin was born in BONHAM TX by the way💯
No Doc Holiday?
Frank "Buckskin" Leslie and Doc dont get a mention? Living in Tombstone will tell you otherwise. Wyatt himself said that Frank was the only man who was a better shot than Doc. Do your research. Including Wyatt Earp is a joke.
interesting how half of these ppl were law enforcement at one time
Tom Horn was made to make the rope that he was hanged with.
What i want to know is did any pf these outlaws come in contact or know of each other's
I love how people say this hardly ever happened, yet only a very very very ......................................................... small part of history is actually recorded. Even with all the tech of today only a very small part of history is recorded.
If you cover Doc Holiday, this video would’ve been in the millions already. Haha
As with most treatises on western gunfighters this grossly overestimates the number of folks killed by gunfighters. Jim Miller has the most confirmed kills. Less than 30.(This is from memory. I can't find my Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters. It is not definitive, but, makes a good attempt at documenting known kills.) Even some of Miller's are questionable. Garrett was shot from ambush. Miller was presumed to be the killer. Of course, one shot from ambush does not sound exactly like a gunfight to me.
Id love to try my luck with a lot of the old gunfighters but I really don't think I could take Wild Bill
You ain’t takin any of em💀
Erm, Doc. Holliday? Surely he has to be on this list?
I live in southern Illinois
All these dangerous gunslinger graves are tourists site today even Billy the kid.
People completely over looking both Texas red, and the Arizona ranger.
What about dave mather cullen baker or maybe commodore perry owens ?
This was fantastic
No it wasn't.
Harden was a serial killer and Texas only gave him 25 years. It was a different place back then.
Kinda surprised doc holiday wasnt listed.
@6:26. Pinkertons!!
where is tacitus kilgore or rip van winkle?
I can’t believe you forgot Doc holliday
To not have Doc Holliday, or Jesse James on here is crazy
Jesse James really cant be considered a gun fighter, he was a criminal, bank and train robber with his brother, James got into few if any gun fights, ...
Doc holiday????you missed.
An now i feel like slinging,.no honestly sometimes I feel real down an this is da way out
Bat Masterson?
Horn done many things to be executed from but the most ironic thing is he did not kill Willie Nickells the crime that he was actually hung for. A housekeeper for the other family said their son is the one that killed Nickells son. She told her employer she would keep quiet as long as they did not convicted Tom Horn of this. When they did convicted horn she was fired and she went to the proper authorities saying Tom Horn was innocent but they didn't listen to her. Just like Bill longley and just like John Wesley Hardin himself there is no reason to believe that horn was anything but railroaded to The gallows. Bill longley for example actually said I never killed anyone in this cold-ass blood as you are killing me you shit face sons of b****** . Naturally the newspaper couldn't print that so they said that what he said was he deserve this fate he did not say that. And then harden got 25 years for shooting a man that had already shot him in the back. That seems a bit extreme extreme to me all these men were railroaded to The gallows or prison.
Wild bill Hickok is my ancestor my cousin did a genealogy test and found out that the rumors about wild bill and calamity Jane having children is true they are both my ancestors so yeah it's on my mom's side
Happy birthday wild bill
Simon gunanoot was pretty badass too
can someone tell me the name of the movie at 18:53 please thanks
This video does not accurately portray Bill The Kid, Billy was a Murderer, who Ambushed Men, that he knew he would have no prayer of surviving a gun battle with, he back shot several men, and was terrified of getting into a fair fight with anyone, he for sure would of been gunned down easily, he rarely used a pistol as this would require him to get close to his victims, preferring a rifle to make longer shots as to avoid any close contact, he was a coward, that dressed like a woman to avoid being stopped by Deputies, at even the slightest sign of trouble he was always the first to run. He had a very low IQ and was suffered from multiple Physical Problems, and was a hopeless Alcoholic...