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Fast Facts: Gunfights


Gunfight at Hunnewell, Kansas
October 5, 1892 Hunnewell, Kansas
Gunfighters:

Oscar Halsell and Clem Barefoot
vs.

Texas Lawmen and Citizens of Hunnewell, Kansas

Results: A Texas lawman and his Deputy entered Hanley's Saloon in Hunnewell, Kansas to quiet a disturbance. Hunnewell was a small town on the border of Oklahoma and Kansas that was built along a railroad. This meeting ended in bloodshed against cowboys Oscar Halsell and Clem Barefoot.

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