Cullen Baker

That's East Texas.

Most likely by notorious Reconstruction-era outlaw Cullen Baker.

Baker was notorious in the Southwest as an opponent of Reconstruction, meaning he was an unreconstructed rebel.

And they believe he's the one that assassinated the Freedmen's Bureau.

In 1868, the state's military commander offered big rewards for the three worst of these men, each operating in strife-torn North Texas.

Of the three, the most notorious was a man named Cullen Baker, sometimes called the Swamp Fox of the Sulfur, as in the Sulfur River, which flowed through Baker's haunts in the extreme northeast corner of Texas.

Outside Texas, Baker is probably best known for the notion, first advanced by the author Louis L'Amour in a 1959 novel, that he pioneered the fast-draw duel with revolvers.

There's no evidence he did, but it's a fun tale.

Baker killed a soldier.

Kirkman shot Baker in the arm.

That's when Cullen Baker went on the warpath.

Two months later, he led a gang that attacked four soldiers in the town of Jefferson, killing two of them.