A Good Handle

[Mike Franklin]

What is your favorite name from the True West? Some names just jump out at ya, 'Doc' Holiday. Some names stick in your head, 'The Sundance Kid'. My favorite name, likely an alias, is 'Harry Head'. How could you not like a name like that.
What's yours?

Mike Franklin
Poteet, Texas

[Reb]

'Sonora'

[Bo Walker aka "Badlands Walker"]

"Badlands Walker" But sometimes I worry that I like me too much!

[Terry Boniface (Malpaso)]

Bo thats impossible,

[flboots]

It depends if my boss is mad at me or not. LOL, She has a sharp tongue, and when mad can swear like a mule skinner. LOL

[M.D."Doc"Ingalls]

Skookum Jim, Black Bart (gotta love that one), "Big Nose" George Parrot (This one just tells it all), "Big Foot" Wallace, "Snow Shoe" Thomson, "Rowdy Joe" Lowe, "Dog" Kelly, just to name a few.
And let's not forget the ladies. "Baby Doe" Tabor, "Big Minnie" Bignion (?spl.) (Wow! Wonder if she charged buy the pound?) "Poker Alice", "Squirrel Tooth Alice", "Horse Face Annie", "Rose of the Cimarron", "Cattle Kate", "Little Britches" and so on.
All great names

[Marshall Trimble]

Mike, I can't help myself. I just have to jump into this. I think Johnny Ringo was probably the most blessed when it comes to great names but here are a few of my favorites:

Some of Arizona's lesser-known outlaws included:
Long-Necked Charlie Leisure; Shoot-Em-Up Dick; Ace of Diamonds; Jack of Diamonds; Long Hair Sprague; Red Jacket Almer; Lafayette Grime; Climax Jim; Harry Head; Rattlesnake Bill; Johnny Behind the Duece; Three-finger Jack; Bravo Juan; Jawbone Clark; and Russian Bill

Along with them here are a few lesser-known personalities of Tombstone: Coal Oil Georgie: Senator Few Clothes; Geronimo Miranda; and Harelip Charley Smith.

Maulda "Big Minnie" Bignon billed herself as "230 Pounds of Lovliness in Pink Tights." The six-foot tall Minnie was a hooker, pianist, singer, and ballet dancer. She was no mere dainty however, after she married Joe Bignon of the Bird Cage Theater, she was also boucer for the joint.

Other specimens of Eve's flesh included Nellie the Pig; Peg Leg; the Waddling Duck, the Dancing Heifer, the Galloping Cow; the Roaring Gimlet; Little Lost Chicken; Grasshopper; Madame Featherlegs; Velvet Ass Rose and Leo the Lion.
But Wait.....There's More: Peg Leg Annie; Straight Edge; Dutch Jake; Nervous Jessie; Snake Hips Lulu; Lizzette-the-Flying Nymph; Cock-Eyed Liz; The Lop-Eared Kid; Clabberfoot Mary; Lattice Porch; Comstock Porky; Clubfoot Annie; Squirrel Tooth Alice; Sad Story Mary; The Oregon Mare; Flora the Ton, Jolly Molly (Molly's husband was a lawman named Jolly, hence the moniker); Black Fanny; Irish Mag; and Bull Shit Mary.

[Steve Sanders]

"Mysterious Dave" Mather; George "Flat Nose" Curry; Always liked the sound of Elfego Baca (what a character he was; someone should do a new movie about his life). Then there is Dick Liddil (enough to give ya a complex right there). And finally, who could forget "Fanny Featherhen."

[M.D."Doc"Ingalls]

Steve,

Way back when, Disney did a movie on him entitled I believe "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca".

M.D."Doc"Ingalls

[Steve Sanders]

As good and realistic as Westerns are made these days (Appaloosa, Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma), a new Elfego Baca movie would be another greatn

[Jennifer Lewis]

"Whistling Dick" ran a freight line out of Tombstone. Who could forget "Liver Eating Johnson"??

[Steve Sanders]

And who could forget Jennifer "Overland Express" Lewis?

[Rick Fritz]

"Johnny-behind-the-deuce."