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Did Bill Longley Survive His Execution?
TEXAS History
By BARTEE HAILE
This Week in Texas History
Sep. 3, 1878 was another tense day for Wild Bill Longley, as the famous gunfighter waited in the Giddings jail for an appeals court to decide whether he lived or died. At a precocious age, William Preston Longley displayed a talent ideally suited to the violent times that followed the Civil War. From horseback at a full gallop, the…
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