Gem Saloon Shootout
August 20, 2026
William Polk Rayner, a stylish and well-connected former El Paso policeman and gambler, became one of the city’s most notorious violent figures in the mid-1880s. The son of Kenneth Rayner, a prominent North Carolina politician and jurist, he arrived in Texas with the advantages of family standing…
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