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Born John Horton Slaughter in Louisiana in 1841, this was the exact type
of individual that the wild west celebrated. He was at times, a
cattleman, lawman, gunman, gambler, politician, and builder of empires.
He was elected sheriff of Cochise County in 1886, and was a good and
tough sheriff but he would rather arrest a man than kill him,
nonetheless, he killed in the line of duty when necessary including the
bandit Guadalupe Robes, and as late as 1900 he killed gambler Bob
Stevens after he held up a gambling game and ran off with the money. He
was appointed deputy sheriff again, and held the post until he died in
1921 at the age of 80, in his sleep in the town of Douglas, Arizona,
that he helped found.
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