Daniel Boone May
American gunfighter
About Daniel Boone May
Lived 1852 – 1910 (aged 57–58).
Daniel Boone May (1852 – unknown), 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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Who was Daniel Boone May?
American gunfighter
When was Daniel Boone May born?
Daniel Boone May was born in 1852.
When did Daniel Boone May die?
Daniel Boone May died in 1910.
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