Outlaw and Lawman: The Tragic Tale of Two Old Friends

Published in The Cowboy Chronicle, August 2025 The second in a series about frontier lawmen Late afternoon on November 8, 1878, with the sun’s warmth still lingering, two men lay dead in the Pembina, North Dakota post office. This was the tragic end to a once close friendship. William Collins and William Anderson had gone to school together in Texas. They became the kind of good friends that had…