James 'Killer' Miller: Frontier Outlaw & Assassin | Wild West History Documentary

Footprints of The Frontier
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Published 2023-12-04
The term “gunfighter” is used heavily in discussions of the wild west. This is despite the word being a general phrase meant to describe a number of professions on the western frontier. It could reference ranchers and cowboy archetypes you see in artistic representations of the time period. It could also relate to polar opposites. Both lawmen and outlaws alike were forms of gunfighters, always armed and ready for a show, either for the greater good or the selfish bad. Even folks stuck with the labels of “con man” and “gambler” were referred to generally as gunfighters. Of all the professions spanning all the industries, the most fascinating subgroup of gunfighters was the bounty hunters, men dispatched by both the government and powerful entities to venture out across the land in search of wanted outlaws.

While bounty hunting wasn’t as popular a career as many Hollywood films would suggest, it was a way for some of the most experienced and isolated gunfighters to make a living, while using their talents to the best of their abilities. To cover these intriguing and incendiary figures of western frontier lore, here’s the next video in our series of both famous and infamous bounty hunters, continuing with the legendary assassin and title-winning sharpshooter, James “Deacon Jim” Miller, sometimes better known by his hired hand sobriquet, “Killer Miller.”

0:00 Intro
1:34 The Ballad Of Deacon Jim
5:19 Dee Harkey
9:35 A Lawman By Day…
25:27 An Assassin By Night…
35:25 The Final Chapter

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All Comments (12)
  • @jacobayers2391
    Another great video you guys are really on a roll with it recently. Also don’t know if y’all take requests but I’d love a documentary on the Taylor-Sutton feud
  • @cactusjackslade320
    His grandparents were not murdered. They all died of old age. His mother’s parents died and are buried in Mountainburg, Arkansas. His father parents in York, Pennsylvania. Don’t know where this fabricated story began, but amazing how it’s stuck around and repeated in practically every book and documentary about him.
  • @johndilday1846
    The picture that you show at 7:00 is of the famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, not the other guy.
  • @troynov1965
    Pecos .....Paycos ......... not Peecos LOL
  • @gwilson664
    He would not have took kindly to referring to his "sobriquet"!
  • @madtrapper8301
    I’d call Jim Miller a lot of things but a bounty hunter isn’t one of them