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JIM EARLE

ames “Jim” Hubert Earle, 86, Western history publisher, gun collector and authority on outlaws and lawmen, died on Feb. 4, (1988), which he edited, and (1992), which he illustrated. Earle’s historic gun collection, including the .44–40 Colt single-action revolver Pat Garrett used to kill Billy the Kid, was profiled in Guns of the West in the April 2013 .

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