Daniel Boone May

Male, Deceased Person

1852 – 1878

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Who was Daniel Boone May?

Daniel Boone May, known as Boone May, was an American gunfighter, of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

May was born in Missouri. He was employed as a shotgun messenger by the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage & Express Company during the late 1870s.

Reputedly the "fastest gun in the Dakotas", he had the reputation that "his corpses were invariably those of undesirable citizens, never of the law abiding."

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Born
1852
United States of America
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
1878

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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