10 DEADLIEST Gunslingers In The History Of OLD WEST, here goes channel fans vote.. 

Your list didn't include Wild Bill Hickok and he was a hellva gunslinger!

Annie Oakley was hardly a native of the Old West. She lived in Ohio until she began preforming in Wild West Shows around the turn of the century.

How does being a good shot make Annie Oakley a gunslinger? She was just a sharp shooter. She never killed anybody in a gun battle.

Thank you for sharing. Sam Bass is a legendary lawman in American history. God bless

Several years ago while researching our family history one relative created a book with related stories and one ancestor it turned out that he was a horseback Rodin train robber. Though I don’t condone criminal activity it still is fascinating

When my dad who was born in 1927 was a kid growing up on a small rural property outside of Little Falls Minnesota he and his brothers befriended an old man that was a neighbor who they said was in his 80's or 90's at the time (mid to late 1930's) and the old guy would have one of them drive his old touring car while he rode in the back seat. This old guy would have his old 6 shooter and holster on and would stand up in the back of the moving touring car as it drove along and do a quick draw and shoot crows out of the air. The old guy would only say that he had spent time out west before the turn of the century and was known by a different name but would never say what that name was. He died before 1940 without anyone knowing who he really was or if what he had said was true or if it was just a tall tale he told kids, but from what my dad and his brothers all said and agreed on was that they truly Believe the old guy had actually been a gunslinger who wanted to live his last years in peace and didn't want his past known to anyone or which side of the law he had been on. But they all agreed that they felt he had been on the wrong side of the law and probably had old wanted posters for him out west. Nobody will ever know who that old guy was and my dad and uncles who had known him are all gone now so they can't even be shown pictures of various old gunslingers who just disappeared to see if any of them resembled a younger version of the old guy. It would be interesting to know who he was and what his past was.

Actually, the deadliest was John Wesley Hardin; even Longley complained about Hardin killing more than he had and not getting a death sentence.

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I Have 12 "Kills" From Iraq & Afganistan, So Does That Make Me A "Gunslinger" ???

I believe you are wrong about the name Sitting Bull gave her. It was I believe "Little Sure Shot" which also makes a lot more sense.

Excellent video…👍🏻 Thank you this history lesson!!

The pic of Holliday is actually Morgan Earp and the second is a french guy who passed by Tombstone

GREAT VIDEO , AS A MAN WHO CARRIED A GUN SINCE I WAS 3 OR 4, HUNG MY GUNS ONTHE BED POST, PLAEDMY GUNS UNDER THE PILLOW, JUST LIKE AUDIE MURPHY ! NOW AS I LIVE STILL A GUN BEARING COWBOY, WILL TILL I DIE & THEIR WERE MANY HORSES ! NOW JUST THE OTHER DAY AS I STOOD IN FRONT OF MIRROR IN BATHROM, MY DAUGHTER SARAH WALKING BY DOOR SAW ME DRW MY GOLDEN REVOLVER. DAD SHE EXCLAIMED YOU RE FASTER THAN I EVER SEEN. GOD AIN'T DAUGHTERS GREAT, I HAVE 3 !

Hard to imagine a list like this without John Wesley Hardin. You mentioned his name but he was not on the list

You left out 2 of the top 3. no1 James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok no2 John Peter Ringo no3 John Wesley Hardin.

Bass was not forced to join the Confederate Army. His owner told him that if he would fight for the Confederacy he would get his freedom.

I could see Doc putting a end to Jonny over the argument they had. I can definitely say Doc wasn't scared. Being faced with death already.

Apparently, Doc Holiday was stunnungly fast and exremely accurate but didnt kill until th OK Coralll and the following revenge ride. He, apparently fired the shot that killed Ringo as Earp missed.

A couple of things ----1)I notice you you do not have the Deacon Miller here. 2) under Bat Masterson you run a photo of Sundance and Etta Place .3)Tom Horn is missing 4)there is evidence that Butch and Sundance died in the late 1930s or 1940s.

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Annie Oakley?? Uh, no. Bad Tom should be on this list and it’s just crazy that Billy the Kid isn’t!

According to Time Life book on documented old west killers . Forget the tales and legends , The most cold blooded , murdering psycho with the most eyewitness`s was Billy The Kid .

John Ringo's father most likely committed suicide based on the description of his death. Since mental illness and suicide are known to run in families, the theory that John did likewise certainly makes sense. Doc Holiday was in Colorado at the time.

"Big Nose Kate" also had a fling with Sheriff Behan. She apparently got around...

Whot abut Billy the kid🤠

Plus, he's a sure shot, he doesn't walk around killing folks

Doc was not a formidable gunslinger. He was a diminutive/sickly man who was known to strike first at any sign of trouble. I say this not to disparage the man, as I am a big fan of the fellow Georgian, but to keep the account true.

Wrong photos were often used. Annie Oakley ? Really?

John Wesley Hardin was the fastest gun. Jesse James had a very slow draw and even worse accuracy. Emptied his gun at the tellers in one robbery and missed with every shot.

There's still Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hickok.. and Wyatt Earp..

There seems to be some debate if Annie Oakley belongs on this list..Ill try to clear it up..The term gunslinger has been used interchangably between exhibition shooters and gunfighters since old West times..But the term gunfighter has not.Annie Oakley was deffinately not a gunfighter.Im sure she was quite capable of being one if needed and im sure living during the times she lived in it may have potentialy been a skill she had to employ at times..But either way she wasnt known as a gunfighter and gunfighter is the key word here.

Jesse James is a true American hero, and he still is. A true Rebel, and American who saw the Union for what is was. Jesse and Frank never went to Northfield Minnesota. Jesse had an argument with one of the Younger brothers, so neither Jesse or Frank went on that raid. It’s in Cole Youngers book. Jesse James is a true hero, who was a Rebel to the end. GOD BLESS JESSE JAMES

I didn't know half em!

You know the truth of the Old West has never been told. It seems to be a place where might and fear, and the strongest ruled. That when things got too bad you just moved. Well, we've run out of places to move to. Now what? We have yet to learn how to provide for the common good, and not to controlled and ruled over by people with too much money and power. About now I'm wondering where Scotty is, and or a portal to escape this place, and somewhat feel that I've lived too long. And history is only a vague recall of what really happened. Hollywood's depiction of anything is just that. Hollywood's depiction based on little of the truth. The wild West was just that, living, and trying to survive. Life at its most basic.

Definitely.😊

That list is not even close to truth. 1. Wild Bill. - Double draw 2. Doc Holliday - Double draw 3. Johny Ringo - Single draw How you even think to put Doc in 10 place ? Wild Bil and Doc Holliday was double draw slingers, which mean they draw 2 pistols at same time with same speed. Ringo was fast only with right hand, and not even close to how quick Bill and Doc was.

They have said that that famous picture of doc Holliday and man with black hair and a black bushy mustache is not the real doc Holliday. He lookee sickly

Where the hell is Hickok?

you aren't suggesting that the vengeance ride lasted 20 years are you, and who isn't related to both of them?

Annie Oakley FFFFS, where's Mr McCarty!😶

What no billy the kid, aka William Bonnie

Litle Anie "SURE-SHOT", not "Short-shot".

Billy the kid!!

No Wild Bill????

Bob Dalton

Annie Oakley was a performer, not by any means a gunslinger. Now, if she threw down in the streets after too much whiskey, I may have missed it. I stopped viewing shortly after that. You can do better. Random dudes with guns seems a more fitting title.

Gee, I wish people who write the captions for these films would learn to spell. Guerillas are not "gorillas." Etc. etc.

the baddest gunslingers are the ones youll never know about

Exaggerated. Small time thugs blown out of proportion

You Should speak with a lower frequency voice......Poor C.....t ! ! !

You missed Arthur Morgan

Hey, research it. There was never a documented gun duel. Hollywood...

Too bad Longley got caught, could of got a few more

Jesse James robbed thru out the Midwest .It was when his gang went up and tried to rob a Bank in Norrthfield ,Minnesota. that his gang got shot to pieces .

Quite misleading.

Electric car for work. Old grand marquis for road trips. ( get the bench seats)

Biehn. Michael Biehn, not Bean.

How does an illiterate study Shakespeare ?

None of them did more then the Lone Ranger! This is some bull 💩!!!!

"Wild Bill" Longley was a staunch Democrat.

He hunted his own son down? Thats supposed to be inspiring or something lol!

Buckskin Frank Leslie killed John Ringo ,Billy Claybourne, saw him do it. Leslie also killed Claybourne.

Awesome

Where's: Wild Bill Hickok / Tom Horn / John Wesley Hardin / Jim Miller / Frank Hamer / J. "King" Fisher / Ben Thompson ???

You missed james butler "wild bill" hickok.

Glad I found this channel. Holliday is my personal favorite. Hands down. That being said, the baddest dude n the Old West is none other than John Wesley Hardin. Absolute zero contest. 💯

Jeff KIdder Arizona ranger. Not many practiced a fast draw and expended thousands of rounds of ammo like Kidder did. Rumored by rangers to be capable to draw and fire while being covered by guns. Bat Masterson was smart. He avoided many gun fights by holding shooting contests to demonstrate how accurate he could shoot. The gun used by Ringo in the TV series actually existed. It was an upgraded version of a cap-and-ball french pistol which fired a shotgun shell from the center of the barrel. Ringo was not known to own one. Clay Allison? Reputed to be the first fast gun. Commodore Perry Owen? Only man known to have taken down four men in a gunfight.

Calling Ringo "lesser known" is down right inaccurate. Even disrespectful. All the same, I truly enjoyed this video. Well made. Well narrated. Thank You for your efforts.💯

I guess whomever put this video together had no interest in getting it historically correct.

John Wesley Hardin was #1

Annie Oakley was a shootist, not a shooter, definitely not an outlaw. You should have added the baddest of them all, John Wesley Hardin, he knew left over 40 men, one for snoring to loud!!

Time stamps 0:25 Doc Holiday 4:07 Johnny Ringo 6:52 Bass Reeves 10:06 Buckskin Frank 14:03 Porter Rockwell 17:30 Annie Oakley 20:12 Bill Longley 23:30 Bat Masterson 25:53 The Sundance Kid 28:34 Jesse James Annie Oakley's presence and Billy the Kid's absence on this list are both puzzling. Annie was a sharpshooter and quite famous, that much is true, but she did not kill anyone as far as we know, so her being called one of the DEADLIEST GUNSLINGERS is very strange indeed.

Like other comments have mentioned, the lack of John Wesley Hardin on this list means the video cannot be taken seriously, not to mention that Annie Oakley was not a "deadly gunslinger", and her nickname was "Little Sureshot", not "Little Shortshort" or whatever the caption read. Some of the anachronistic unrelated photos are ridiculous, leaving viewers confused as to what is real and what is not real, whether a photo shown is the subject or someone else, even though the naive narrator begs us to "trust me". Makers of this video need to do more research to avoid mis-informing viewers.

Somehow John Wesley Hardin and wild Bill Hickock are missing? Hmmm🤔

How does Annie Oakley fit the subject matter "DEADLIEST Gunslingers"..? She was neither. Besides that, great video. Thanks

What...no William H. Bonney nor James Butler Hickok? Are you kidding me?😆 I guess your list is simply, an opinion not documented.

Penniless at death can only mean you lived your life with gusto. Spend it all, especially if you earned it. My father asked me, the oldest child and only child alive, if i wanted that marvelous house i grew up in, to be left to me at his death. I said no. Sell it and get tour money. You've educated me, and I'll be able to pay my own way. And he did! And so did I. God bless the child who's got his own.

Public sentiment in former Confederate states had not turned against the James brothers. After Jesse's murder Frank turned himself in. Frank was prosecuted but juries wouldn't convict him.

No Wild Bill Hickok or John Wesley Hardin or King Fisher or Jim "killer" Miller ? Wow !

I'm glad Bass Reeves is finally getting his due...

I’m pretty good with historical facts, not all of these are true. This seems more like opinions rather than accurate information. I may as well be added to this list too.

RIP TO THE REAL LONE RANGER BASS REEVES. THE BEST LAWMAN EVER.😊

6:41 That Dell comic cover has Ringo holding a very strange revolver. Note that you see three cartridge holes on the inner side of the cylinder - leaving room for at least five or maybe even six more cartridges! I never heard of an 8 or 9 shot pistol - not back when favorite cartridges started at about .32 to .45 cal. guess it might have been a 9-shot .22, but not with that large gun barrel.

Interesting video and great narration, but I do have some issues. These deadliest or best gunslingers videos are often subjective and sometimes just comparisons. Since there are gunfighters, who reportedly killed more men in less time in personal combats, these brief documentaries are usually popularity contests. As questioned, Annie Oakley wasn't a gunslinger or gunfighter and she certainly wasn't deadly because she wasn't known to have killed anyone. While most of the so-called gunslingers in this example killed people in more than one encounter, several (Holliday, Ringo, Reeves, Leslie, Sundance Kid, etc.) were apparently not as prolific as often claimed as some of their killings are uncorroborated by additional sources. I don't think most Wild West fans would even consider Jesse James a gunslinger because after the Civil War, he seems to have fought few people as equals. James is mostly known as a bank and train robber, who shot and killed unarmed civilians with his gang. Personal Munchausenism, newspapers, dime novels and early films elevated many Wild West killers to the stereotyped gunslinger of Hollywood, but that does mean that the tropey gun notches were factually deserved.

Correction.....Doc Holidays mother passed away from TB when Doc was 15 years old and not that he was diagnosed with TB at 15.... I don't think Doc knew till years later that he'd contracted it from his mother....I believe there was another sibling of Docs that also passed away from TB.

Guys this list is bunk without John Wesley Hardin. Hardin is that sixgun killer all movies try to make the others. Infamous. He also learned and passed the BAR while in prison becoming a good lawyer once released. And, he died the shooters death. Educate yourselves brothers, John Wesley Hardin is the gunslinger.

FOLKS WE NEVER WAGE WAR ON WOMEN! LEAVE ANNIE OAKLY ALONE ! SO MY BEST FRIEND HOPALONG CASSITY SAY'S WE DON'T WAGE WAR ON WOMEN !

There were far deadly gunslingers than all the ones listed here. Some were not even gunslingers like Annie and Sundance. The Sundance kid was an outlaw but he wasn't a killer and neither was Butch. Butch killed 1 man but he wasn't a notorious gunslinger. This was a waist of my time

Annie was a Sharpshooter who never killed any one .She however after World War ! state she wished she had missed and hit Kaiser Wilhelm when she shot a lit Cigarette out of his mouth.Can you imagine how deadly Annie would have been if she became a Professional Killer ? .If I remember she once shot and hit over 4,000 glass balls thrown in the air consecutively

I would argue with a mormon going to heaven. Modern day cult. Not buffalo they are bison

Johnny Ringo? Didn't even get the last name right..Ringgold as i recall. Also semi disowned by his family

It's Holliday, with two "L"s. Also, the gunfight was not AT the O.K. Corral, the shootout actually took place in a narrow lot on the side of C. S. Fly's photography studio on Fremont Street, six doors west of the O.K. Corral's rear entrance. 3 men, Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury were killed, Billy Claiborne and Ike Clanton ran away. Wyatt was unharmed, Doc, Virgil, and Morgan were wounded. A couple of good books to check out are "1876: The Year of The Gun" by Steve Wiegand and "The Summer of 1876" by Chris Wimer. Between them, they cover Both Bills (Wild and Hickok), Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse. Good reads! \

too many inaccuracies. And too many missing killers. And Annie Oakly should not be in the list at all.

Annie Oakley was not a Gunslinger. Belle Starr should be here instead.

You people need to fo your homework on history,many get facts wrong

This sounds AI

I’m stunned you don’t mention wild bill Hickok. You use the term gunfighter, but the only person to ever have had a documented old west type gunfight in the street was Bill Hickok. He was in fact a legend in his own time. Known and feared throughout the west as a fearless lawman, and a deadly shot. The gunfight took place when Hickok was gambling and lost his fathers watch to another gambler. He told him he’d get the money to buy the watch back, but warned him not to be seen wearing the watch in public. Apparently the guy wasn’t very bright because that’s exactly what he did. Hickok saw him and stepped into the street and told him to remove the watch or pull his gun. According to eyewitnesses and newspaper reports he let the guy draw first and drew his weapon and shot him through the heart. It was ruled self defense because the other guy drew first. It is the one, and only movie style gunfight recorded in the old west. Further, as the Marshall of Abilene, Kansas he got into a night time shoot out and killed three cowboys who were firing guns in violation of the town ordinance requiring all guns be checked In to the town marshal till the owner left town. When he told them to drop their guns they opened fire on him. Sadly, his deputy Mike Williams came running up to help Hickok but approached from behind him. Hickok spun and fired killing Williams thinking him to be another cowboy about to shoot him in the back. The Abilene paper wrote that Hickok ordered every one off the streets and wept over the body of his dead deputy. Again he was cleared due to the shooting being a unintentional accident. He then resigned as Marshall of Abilene and went to deadwood, South Dakota where he would be shot in the back of the head while playing poker. He always sat with his back to the wall but the man in that chair refused to change places with him thus leaving him exposed. When he died he was holding a full house of three eights and two aces. Known ever since as the deadman’s hand. His legend as a lawman and gunman was so great that he was known in newspapers as far as New York City. No other man in the old west was more renowned with a gun, or more feared than Bill Hickok. He killed at least ten men that are recorded and probably a few no one knew about. The difference with Hickok was that he never killed men except in self defense. Of all the men you mentioned the only one, with the exception of Bass Reeves, actually lived up to his reputation. You also left off clay Allison, and John Wesley Hardin. Both of which were more dangerous than any men on your list, especially Wes Hardin.

What, no Billy the kid?

i dont understand why you dont show any pictures of the DOC HOLIDAY from the 1956 the LIFE OF WYATT EARP not that wack one from the movie with Val kemer SMH

I was born and raised, more than 75 years ago, in West Texas. Live there now. Read about Adobe Walls all my life. First heard about it in school in Texas History class. Seen it in movies. etc. Billy Dixon became famous there for killing an Indian over a mile away with his Sharps buffalo rifle. This video is the first time I ever heard that Bat Masterson was there. The things that can discovered only on the Internet is amazing, don't you think ? I swear it's almost like magic when new facts appears about old stories.