PEGLEG WILSON'S Ike Clanton was kind of a strutting rooster, stringy and tough, and forever crowing when those within earshot better craved his silence. He was belligerent, and obnoxious and demanding and those most around him found it easier to agree with him than to dispute him. It enabled his influence to grow within his family and all who came under his influence paid dearly for it. In his whole life the only thing that Ike Clanton was ever good at was stealing his neighbor’s cattle. His life of thievery would lead to the killings of his father, Newman Haynes, his 19 year old brother, Billy, and his friends Frank and Tom McLaury. It would cause his brother Phin to serve a stretch in the Yuma Penitentiary. Ike’s brother-in-law, Eben Stanley, was
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