The Strange Death of Johnny Ringo
Mystery on the Western Frontier
9 min readSep 3, 2019
Johnny Ringo was a legendary gunslinger and favorite outlaw of Tombstone, Arizona. Of course, he didn’t begin life as a western frontier villain. He was born May 3, 1850, to Martin Ringo and Mary Peters in Green Fork, Indiana. Johnny was the eldest of five children. As a child, Johnny was repeatedly uprooted to begin life in a new town with better…
