— STONE-COLD KILLER — Gunman Clay Allison sat inside Herberger’s Saloon on a cold October night in 1870 in Elizabethtown, New Mexico, having a drink with David Crockett, nephew of frontiersman Davy Crockett. Minutes later, a woman stumbled through the doors, her ice-cold skin bloodied and covered with bruises.

The woman, almost incoherent with fear, babbled about being escaping from a ramshackle cabin where she lived with her husband Charles [...]
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