William Brocius
Person Or Being In Fiction
1845 – 1882
Who was William Brocius?
William Brocius, known as Curly Bill Brocius was a gunman, rustler and an outlaw Cowboy in the Cochise County area of the Arizona Territory during the early 1880s. His name is almost certainly an alias, and there is evidence linking him to another outlaw named William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham who had committed an 1878 attempted robbery in El Paso, Texas.
Brocius had a number of conflicts with the lawmen of the Earp family, and he was named as one of the individuals who participated in Morgan Earp's assassination. Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp and a group of deputies including his brother Warren Earp pursued those they believed responsible for Morgan's death. The Earp posse unexpectedly encountered Curly Bill and other Cowboys on March 24, 1882, at Iron Springs. Wyatt killed Curly Bill during the shoot out. In his journal written in October 1881, George Parsons referred to Brocius as "Arizona's most famous outlaw".
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- Born
- 1845
Crawfordsville - Also known as
- Brocious
- William "Curly Bill" Brocius
- Lived in
- Tombstone
- Texas
- Died
- Mar 24, 1882
Iron Springs
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on July 23, 2013
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