Curly Bill crouched behind the embankment of a waterhole called Iron Springs in the

mountains northwest of Tombstone.

He had eight cowboys with him on a hot spring day in 1882.

They knelt in their hiding spots, waiting with their weapons clutched in their hands.

Before long, they heard horses approaching.

Several riders traversed the winding path down to the waterhole.

The cowboys allowed the riders to get close.

They waited for the horses to stop.

Then Curly Bill jumped up from his spot.

He fired at the riders.

The eight cowboys leapt to their feet and triggered a barrage of slugs at the horsemen.

One horse was hit immediately and it crashed to the ground, trapping its rider underneath.

The riders quickly retreated out of the killing zone.

All except one.

The rider stepped down from his horse as bullets flew all around him.

He was angry that his posse didn't stay in fight and now he was out there all alone.

That's when he spotted Curly Bill.

Curly Bill and his men kept firing.

They shredded Wyatt's coat but couldn't seem to hit the man himself.

Curly Bill braced himself as Wyatt brought a shotgun up to his shoulder.

Bill might have seen Wyatt pull the triggers and he might have seen smoked Billow out

from the barrels before he heard the roar of the shotgun.

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