was named after naval hero Commodore Oliver Perry. He left his Tennesse home at an early age and spent some time in Indiana before following the cattle trails west in his late teens. With his long blond hair, hand-tooled chaps, sombrero, and a long barreled Colt .45 with a double row of ammunition on his gun belt, Perry was a site to be seen, even in the Wild West. In 1882, he rode into Arizona and he became a foreman in Navajo Springs. During this time, he chased and killed several rustlers and his reputation as a fast draw and deadly gunman started. Charles Angelo Siringo was born in Texas and worked as a cowhand from the time he was thirteen. At twenty-two he went out to join the search for 17-year-old killer Billy the Kid but was forced to give up after he lost all his money gambling. Siringo later worked as a grocer in Kansas for two years. Dallas Stoudenmire stood about six-foot-four, had dark brown hair and green eyes. He was born in Macon County, Alabama, in 1845, and after enlisting three times in the Confederate Army (the military kept discharging him because of his age), he came West at war's end. In the vicinity of Columbus, Texas, he built a reputation as a gunman.William Matthew Tilghman was born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on July 4, 1854. His parents moved to Fort Ridgeley, Minnesota, where his father was an army seargent, then on to a farm near the Missouri River, several miles from Atchison, Kansas, when the boy was only two years old.On the outbreak of the Civil War the father joined the Union Army as a quartermaster, and his oldest son, Richard, became a drummer boy. Young Bill, only eight, was left behind to help on the farm. It was quite a job for an eight-year-old boy to plough the fields, reap the crops, and keep food on the table.It was during this period that Bill Tilghman became an expert with rifle, shotgun, knife, and pistol. When his father returned from the war he was blind, and Bill's brother had married and mo...
