You have to understand one aspect of this as these were real men, going about their day-to-day lives. All men carried guns 🔫 in the Old West, and naturally some were better than others. They didn't go around trying to seek out one another for a gunfight. Most of their altercations happened on the spur of the moment.

How can you call someone a gunslinger who kills with a rifle from long distance. That person ain't no gunslinger. He's a bushwhacking dry gulcher.

No mention of the Lincoln County War? THAT is the main reason Billy the Kid was imprisoned by Garrett. Murdering Sheriff Brady. SMH

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"Fast is fine but accuracy is final." --Wyatt Earp

The face-to-face gunslinger shootout actually very rarely took place in the Old West. Most of the people were shot in the back. The gunfighter face-to-face shootout is a mostly Hollywood concoction. And another Hollyweird (as I call Hollywood Westerns) thing: gunfighters most certainly would not have fired their guns from the hip, you couldn't hit a barn door doing that! They would have had to draw and sight quickly along the barrel. I find it annoying as hell that whenever there's a Hollywood western depicting the gunfighters, for example Doc Holliday, he always got someone killed with every shot. Nonsense. It is well-known that Holliday could draw and fire fast, but sometimes he completely missed his target. Well, no doubt that wouldn't have interested audiences as much as a deadeye shootist. No doubt gunfighters like Clay Allison, John Wesley Hardin, Wild Bill Hickok and Tom Horn were indeed dangerous men with firearms, but sometimes it's greatly exaggerated by the Hollywood myth.

I would love to see all these guys in a duel tournament to see who wins .

Bass reeves was the original "lone ranger". A lawman and American hero. Orrin Porter Rocwell was a lawman in utah. He killed 450 "badguys" , whites , hispanics and native americans. Rockwell was fast wirh a gun and had multiple guns on him to where he could shoot over twenty times before needing to reload. He was fearless, and He was a "supernatural tracker" .In about 100 shootouts he was never wounded , he died of a heart attack while putting his boots on to catch some desperado...I would be be suprised if he isnt in Hell . Killing that many people without a "mistake" is hard to imagine. Rockwell and Bass Reeves are the two Heros out of the 12 listed .

A very good poem!

Doc Holliday didnt die with his boots on.

Aren't you forgetting some fellers like: Arthur Morgan and John Marston?

I find it comical that they keep saying they weren’t fast guns when all over the internet today there are all kinds of civilians military police that practice getting their guns out in a gun fight so in the 1800 they probably could do the same thing

Doc died with his boot OFF not ON, which is why he laughed, as he thought he would die in a gunfight or ambushed.

To video creator. Video is ok but music in background is very annoying. I just don't know how you didn't see that???

Why is dude on the left telling the other man what he wants for Christmas?

12 greatest back shooter in the west😮.

Official pick of old west quick hand gun with deadly acricy would have to be the Kid. Billy the Kid.

10 paces in the street? Nobody said that. Gunfights were usually 3’-4’ apart, one man loses it & shoots the other. The closest you get to a pace down is one man said to the other ‘I’m gonna get my gun’ & when he returned one of them died.

Does that mean they all have Twins? there's only six in the picture?

whats the soundtrack

Wow, some of these fellers you don't want to TICK OFF! John P.

Sorry, a lot of video material that makes no sense with the story the narrator is telling.

You skipped from Millers time at Maccolik Ranch to his time as a Texas Ranger.

Ringo killed himself, and Wyatt was proven to be 500 miles away and Doc Holiday was in a hotel, dying from tuberculosis, and they have been accused of killing Ringo also. No, Ringo killed himself he was drunk and probably quite depressed and that is why he just ended it all. He had tied his boots on his horse and the horse ran or wandered off, that is why he didn't have his boots on and it would have been quite hard to walk on the rough ground. I have read a lot of history and listen to a lot of history videos.

I done herd sum tails fer sir

You used the wrong photo for Doc Holliday.

most brutal and deadly? Clay Allison (1840-1887)

I do not believe Pat Garrett killed Billy, I believe he actually helped him escape that is why he left town. The Governor will not let no one exhume the body that is supposedly buried at Billy's gravesite. Its all about the tourist attraction there.

You forgot Mad Dog Tannen!

Doc reminds me of Arthur

acers and eights, any western historian should know that that it was only a myth and no one recalled what cards Bill actually had. Aces and Eights was a movie thing that started some time in the early time of silent movies.

The "DEAD MAN'S HAND" Aces and eights, was a very early movie thing. It was never proven what cards Wild Bill actually had when he was shot

The guys that got hanged with Miller weren’t his crew. It were two contractors and their middlemen.

They left out the Texas outlaw Sam Bass also

Your horn slinger didn't die in 2019 as stated in the video

Who told you that Arthur Morgan is the best gunslinger on this earth

Hmm...not sure that using visual content that has v little to do with the characters in question is a smart move...

He doesn't want to do it.😮 that is so stupid even for Harden😅😅😅.

Jesse James 💯💪✔️

It was mentioned in this video that HARDIN killed Comanche deputy... Wrong... The deputy was from neighboring county, BROWN COUNTY, BROWNWOOD TEXAS, my home town. When the deputy tried to arrest HARDIN in a saloon in Comanche, JWH, shot him dead. That deputy is interned in GREENLEAF CEMETERY in BROWNWOOD, on HWY 377 SOUTH, HE was Brown counties first deputy sheriff

I saw valentine and tumbleweed from rdr2

A lot of people of think Hardin got off easy and he did get away with some things that he probably should have been hung for. But look at it this way he got 25 years for shooting someone that had already shot him in the back

He was never “persecuted “ for it? I think you meant prosecuted.

1:19 Hes was never PERSECUTED for it....?......BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

A lot of innacurate information here, HISTORY records " Billy The Kid" as a sadist and not a helpful boy at all, who took pleasure when he killed, Wild Bill..or James Hickock, they ommit he was a lawman who tamed many a town and erased the baddies, The story in this doc of Hickock and Machandles is also tainted as there were 3 against one with te Machandles instigating the fight, Hickock is a much maligned figure , who in context of his times and place was a good man.

I really wanted to watch this video! But the amount of commercials that were in it was utterly disgusting four separate commercials within 3 minutes of the video.... Unfortunately I won't be following this gentleman

Why show scenes from movies not connected to video subject. Very distracting

Ben Thompson was ambushed

Jim’s grandparents weren’t even in the state at the time 🙄

Ee-vont Texas lol yeah we just pronounce it Eve-ant

Billy The Kid rode with The Regulars not the rustlers

The first two mistakes that Pat Garrett made the men had capital offenses anyway so he wouldn't get in any trouble for killing them. I think the third mistake he made in which he always claimed it was Billy the man wasn't wanted for anything. And this is pure speculation but I believe he made a deal with Billy and said I will let you go free and as long as there's no mention of me shooting an innocent man and we're going to bury him under your name. There is some evidence that he split the proceeds of that book ,in which Billy the kid was made to be out a saint almost, with the real Billy the kid.

Clay Allison and Mason Bowman were as deadly as anyone you listed.

Tom Horn, Jnr... Tom Horn JAYNAR??? Try Junior!

SO!!! Jim Miller was NOT in the old West. By your title he should have been in Kaintuck or maybe Michigan

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid must be on the next list.

The vast majority of the people that won the gunfight was not the fastest but the one that took his time well enough to aim Bradley and some others had beat John Wesley on the draw but they were not as accurate as he was so they died.

#13 little Joe bonanza

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Some guys on your list bearly have 10 kills.

Tom Horn wasn'tactually a murderer as portrayed by this propoganda, a real historical person, many beleived him to be a hero.

your narrator can't pronounce quite a few english words ????

Factually incorrect on so many levels. What a joke.

Billy the kid was a snitch. Never knew that

Cheesy

Doc to low on the list

The Texas Rangers the best outlaw gang ever to be formed.

This is so inaccurate that it's shameful if anyone believes a word of what is said in this video. Do better

Doc died with his boots off not on Off. Get real people to edit this stuff before you show it.

Stop saying iconic that's an advertising word

billy the kid was a nobody,a thug

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Gun duels were generally like 5-6 feet from each other

Go play🤣

The same speaking everytime.Boring

None of them were blackies