List of Old West gunfights

This is a list of Old West gunfights. Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century. The most notable shootouts took place in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Some like the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral were the outcome of long-simmering feuds and rivalries but most were the result of a confrontation between outlaws and law enforcement.

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• Bellevue War, April 1, 1840, Bellevue, Iowa
• Broderick–Terry duel, September 13, 1859, San Francisco, California
• Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout, July 21, 1865,
• Gunfight at Hide Park, August 19, 1871, Newton, Kansas
• Goingsnake massacre, April 15, 1872, Tahlequah, Indian Territory
• Battle of Blazer's Mill, April 4, 1878, Mescalero, New Mexico
• Battle of Lincoln, July 15 through July 19, 1878, Lincoln, New Mexico
• Long Branch Saloon Gunfight, April 5, 1879, Dodge City, Kansas
• Variety Hall Shootout, January 22, 1880, Las Vegas, New Mexico
• Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight, April 14, 1881, El Paso, Texas
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona
• Trinidad Gunfight, April 16, 1882, Trinidad, Colorado
• Vaudeville Theater Ambush, March 11, 1884, San Antonio, Texas
• Hunnewell, Kansas Gunfight, August 21, 1884, Hunnewell, Kansas
• Frisco shootout, December 1, 1884, Reserve, New Mexico
• Tascosa Gunfight, March 21, 1886, Tascosa, Texas
• Luke Short-Jim Courtright Gunfight, February 8, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas
• Owens-Blevins Shootout, September 1887, Holbrook, Arizona
• Tunnel Saloon Gabriel-Phy shootout, May 31, 1888, Florence, Arizona
• Battle of Cimarron, January 12, 1889, Cimarron, Kansas
• Battle of Coffeyville, October 5, 1892, Coffeyville, Kansas
• Battle of Stone Corral, June 11–12, 1893, Visalia, California
• Battle of Ingalls, September 1, 1893, Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory
• Skeleton Canyon shootout, August 12, 1896, Nogales, Arizona
• Shootout on Juneau Wharf, July 8, 1898, Skagway, Alaska
• Hot Springs Gunfight, March 16, 1899, Hot Springs, Arkansas
• Shootout at Wilson Ranch, April 7, 1899, Pearce, Arizona
• Moab Shootout, May 26, 1900, Moab, Utah
• Battleground Gunfight, October 8, 1901, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona
• Gunfight at Spokogee, September 22, 1902, Dustin, Oklahoma
• Canyon Diablo Shootout, April 8, 1905, Canyon Diablo, Arizona
• Shootout in Benson, February 27, 1907, Benson, Arizona
• Naco Gunfight, April 5, 1908, Naco, Sonora
• Shootout at Sonoratown, May 15, 1911, Sonoratown, Arizona
• Gleeson Gunfight, March 5, 1917, Gleeson, Arizona
• Power's Cabin Shootout, February 10, 1918, Galiuro Mountains, Arizona

See also[]

• List of cowboys and cowgirls
• List of Western lawmen
• List of Old West gunfighters