Born around 1845, William Brocius, better known as “Curly Bill” Brocius (though both were aliases), may well be Arizona’s most famous – or infamous – outlaw. He was involved in multiple gunfights and related incidents, most famously the accidental shooting of Tombstone town marshal Fred White on October 27, 1880. Brocius may have also been mixed up in the March 18, 1882 assassination of Morgan Earp, younger brother of Wyatt Earp, who is one of the more well-known Wild West figures today.
Whether or not this was the case, what is certain is that Brocius was good with a gun. In fact, a contemporary said he was capable of shooting coins from between people’s fingers and could comfortably take down fleeing jackrabbits. In the end, though, on March 24, 1882, Wyatt Earp killed Brocius during a shootout involving the Earp posse, Brocius and several other cowboys in Iron Springs, Arizona.
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