The Man Who Inspired the “Fast Draw” Legend — Cullen Baker’s True Reconstruction-Era Story Was Far More Complicated Than the Wild West Myth
The legend of Cullen Baker, the man history remembers as the inventor of the fast draw, came to a bloody and undignified end not with a blaze of glory, but riddled with bullets and strychnine poisoning in a remote cabin in southwest Arkansas. The man who terrorized northeast Texas and the river bottoms of Arkansas … Read more