Maricopa Slim

Maricopa Slim (October 13, 1883 – November 5, 1914) was a gunslinger and railroad bull of the American Old West.

His real name was John Powers and he worked in the Gila River Valley of Arizona, United States in the early 20th century, originally as a Southern Pacific railroad detective and later as a deputy sheriff.

[1] Maricopa Slim seems to have spent much or most of his time rousting hobos who were trying to ride the rails cross-country for free.

[1] Maricopa Slim was involved in several shootouts: When Tom and John Powers and another man Tom J. Sisson were accused in 1918 of "killing three Arizona peace officers in the Aravaipa canyon north of Tucson,"[4] initial reports had it that the Powers brothers were half-brothers of Maricopa Slim, but this was false.

[6] In 1961 a retired Southern Pacific railroad bull told an Idaho columnist that Maricopa Slim was "the most abusive, just unnecessarily darn mean man you could think of" and he was killed by someone he had bullied.