Garrett, Pat and Elizabeth
August 20, 2026
Patrick Floyd Garrett, born in Alabama on June 5, 1850, went west after his parents died in 1869 and worked first as a cowhand in Lancaster, Texas, then as a highly successful buffalo hunter on the Southern Plains. In 1876 he killed fellow hide hunter Joe Briscoe during an axe attack, an episode…
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