Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have
crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their
lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger,
Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun
for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional gambler, and the
victor of numerous gunfights. As a leading member of the Wild
West's sporting element, Ben Thompson spent most of his life moving
in the unsavory underbelly of the West: saloons, dance-houses,
billiard halls, bordellos, and gambling dens. During these travels
many of the Wild West's most famous icons—Wyatt Earp, Doc
Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, John
Ringo, and Buffalo Bill Cody—became acquainted with Ben Thompson.
Some of these men called him a friend; others considered him a
deadly enemy. In life and in death no one ever doubted Ben
Thompson's courage; one Texas newspaperman asserted he was
“perfectly fearless, a perfect lion in nature when aroused.”
This willingness to trust his life to his expertise with a pistol
placed Thompson prominently among the western frontier's most
flamboyant breed of men: gunfighters.
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