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5 unusual facts about William Brocius


Dan Tipton

While in jail he missed the shootout at Iron Springs on March 24 during which Wyatt Earp killed Curly Bill Brocius because he was bringing money to the Earp posse.

Frank McLaury

Sometime after their arrival in the San Pedro River valley they met "Curly Bill" Brocius.

William Brocius

Texas Jack Vermillion remained cool under fire and stuck close to Wyatt during the fight.

Robert Yuro played Brocius in the episode "A Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" (October 5, 1968) of the television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor, and also starring Sam Melville as Army Lt. Jason Beal and Luke Halpin as Sandy King, the youngest member of the Brocius gang at the time.

Robert Foulk portrayed Brocius in three episodes of the western television Tombstone Territory: "Gunslinger from Galeville", "Ride Out at Noon," and "Skeleton Canyon Massacre" (1957-1958).


Sandy King

The actor Luke Halpin offers a sympathetic portrayal of Sandy King as the youngest member of the Curly Bill Brocius gang in the 1968 episode "A Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days.


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