"Wolf of the Washita" born in Tennessee

Photo by Plazak

(TDbD) On this day in 1840, gunfighter Clay Allison was born on a Tennessee farm.
After serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Allison moved to the Brazos River country in Texas. He soon signed on as a cowhand with Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight and was probably among the eighteen herders on the 1866 drive that blazed the Goodnight-Loving Trail.
In 1870 he left Texas and was involved in a number of violent incidents, including lynchings, brawls and gunfights, in Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico during the 1870s. Continued