Curly Bill Brocius: The Outlaw who Shot a Town Marshal and Walk Free

Curly Bill Brocius shot Tombstone's town marshal at point-blank range. Then a court let him walk. October 1880. A drunken spree, a dark vacant lot, and a marshal who reached for a gun without drawing his own. What happened in that lot set Tombstone on a road to two years of bloodshed. This is the untold story of Curly Bill Brocius, the rustler with no settled name, and of the sheriffs, speculators, and politicians who divided the law in Cochise County between them. Sources and further reading: 1. Steve Gatto, Curly Bill: Tombstone's Most Famous Outlaw (2003) 2. Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (1997) 3. William M. Breakenridge, Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite (1928) 4. Jeff Guinn, The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How It Changed the American West (2011) 5. Paula Mitchell Marks, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight (1989) 6. Paul Lee Johnson, The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary (2012) 7. Timothy W. Fattig, Wyatt Earp: The Biography (2002) 8. Jack Burrows, John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was (1987) 9. Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931), read with care, as historians dispute much of it 10. Tombstone Epitaph and Tombstone Nugget newspaper archives, 1880 to 1882, available through the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection and the Arizona Memory Project This video is made for educational and informational purposes. Our goal is to widen your knowledge of the American frontier and give you real, well-researched history beyond the legend. Every script on this channel is written by a human. Our visuals and storyboards are brainstormed and developed internally by our team.