Originally Posted by thomasinaz

If you ever get to Tombstone, the old Cochise County courthouse is now a museum. They have a display of some of John Slaughter's guns and other equipment he used whe he was the Sheriff of that county. Also there is a court document from when he was charged with some type of lower level firearms crime, I can't remember if it was for carrying a gun in town or what. It shows he paid a fine for his misdeed. A good book on his life is "The Southwest of John Horton Slaughter", by Allen Erwin. I bought a copy at theTombstone library while there on one of my annual rides several years ago. He was a complete western pioneer in every sense; cattleman, rancher, Sheriff, gunfighter, and a dedicated family man.