William B. "Curly Bill" Brocius (or Brocious) was an outlaw leader of the Clanton Gang of Arizona. Brocius is thought to have been born in 1845 and arrived in Arizona Territory from Texas or Missouri in about 1878, bringing a herd of cattle to the San Carlos Reservation. Afterward, he went to Tombstone, Arizona, where he was a vicious, drunken gunman, cattle rustler, and murderer. In.. Curly Bill Brocius - ?-1882 Curly Bill Brocius was born somewhere in Texas about 1840 - an ugly gunslinger who'd kill a man on the least provocation and laugh over a card game an hour later. He rode into Tombstone from Texas, where he met up with one of the Clanton boys.
V Curly Bill Curly Bill, most famous outlaw in Arizona's history, came from Texas, but when or how or why is one of several mysteries in his life, his end being as enigmatic as his beginning. He was a medieval robber baron in the blue flannel shirt and white sombrero of a cowboy. He rode at times with thirty or forty tall fellows at his back, and it was said he could gather a hundred men-at.. Tombstone Dropped The Awkward Comedy Of The Curly Bill Shootout It's for the best that Tombstone made this battle feel more mythic The early 1990s saw dueling biopics with Tombstone and Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp, with the former becoming a major success while the latter was a critical and financial dud.