Thugs Corner a Silent Drifter, Not Realizing He’s the Legendary Phantom Gunslinger

The deserts of Arizona Territory bred their share of legendary figures in the years following the War Between the States - men whose names were whispered around campfires and whose deeds became the stuff of dime novels. There was Sidewinder Jack Henderson, the Apache Shadow, Three-Finger Mike Collins, and the infamous Wolfe Brothers. But perhaps no figure inspired more terror in the hearts of outlaws - or more debate about their true identity - than the one they called the Phantom.
Some claimed he was a former Union sharpshooter driven mad by the horrors of Gettysburg. Others swore he was a Confederate cavalry officer seeking redemption for wartime sins. The truth, as it often does, lay buried deeper than any of the storytellers knew. What was known was this: over the course of five years, twenty-eight of the territory's most notorious outlaws had met their end at the hands of this mysterious figure. No witnesses, no warnings - just bodies found in the morning sun, each with a single bullet placed with surgical precision.
"He ain't natural," Bart Wolfe once declared in a Tucson saloon, mere weeks before his own death. "No man moves that quiet, shoots that straight. He's a phantom, sure as I'm standing here." Wolfe wouldn't be standing much longer after that declaration.

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