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King Fisher - The Short Life and Elusive Legend of a Texas Desperado (Hardcover)
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King Fisher - The Short Life and Elusive Legend of a Texas Desperado (Hardcover)
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America's Wild West created an untold number of notorious
characters, and in southwestern Texas, John King Fisher (1855-
1884) was foremost among them. To friends and foes alike, he
insisted he be called "King." He found a home in the tough
sun-beaten Nueces Strip, a lawless land between the Nueces River
and the Rio Grande. There he gathered a gang of rustlers around him
at his ranch on Pendencia Creek. For a decade King and his gang
raided both sides of the Rio Grande, shooting down any who opposed
them. Newspapers claimed King killed potential witnesses-he was
never convicted of cattle or horse stealing, or murder. King's
reign ended when he was arrested by Texas Ranger Captain Leander
McNelly. In no uncertain terms he advised Fisher to change his
ways, so King became deputy sheriff of Uvalde County. But his
hard-won respectability would not last. On a spring night in 1884,
King made the mistake of accompanying the truly notorious gambler
and gunfighter Ben Thompson on a tour of San Antonio, where several
years prior Thompson shot down Jack Harris at the latter's saloon
and theater, the Vaudeville. Recklessly, King Fisher accompanied
Thompson back to the theater, where assassins were waiting. When
the smoke cleared, Fisher was stretched out beside Thompson, dead
from thirteen gunshot wounds.
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