Porter Rockwell - Morman Lawman:

It is recorded that Orrin Porter Rockwell (1813 or 1815 - 1878) killed more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Doc Holladay, Tom Horn, and 'Bat' Masterson combined, - earning him the menacing title, the “Destroying Angel”

Eyes Like A Hawk.

Rockwell insisted he “never killed anyone who didn’t need killing,” but several murky incidences clouded his reputation while a deputy sheriff in Utah. 

He is closely associated with & remained unshakably faithful to the Mormon Church and its leaders until his death in June 1878, serving as a body guard to both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. On February 2, 1832, Rockwell aged around 20 married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri  then Mary Ann Neff  in 1854 - & later Christina Olsen.

For a religious man he was a notorious gun-slinger, wanted man, and devout Church member, Orrin Porter Rockwell led an interesting life as a business man owner of The Hot Springs Hotel & Brewery in Salt Lake Valley, and mountain man, - a lawman until his death.

 His eyesight was excellent and he used it with a shotgun, revolvers and lethal accuracy - and a policy to “always shoot first . . . that way they know you’re armed” making his time as a lawman controversial at best. Charged with murder or attempted murder on three occasions, Porter was acquitted twice and he died before the last charge could come to the courts.

A Colt 'Mormon Avenger' Percussion Revolver.

Of The type Rockwell Used.

Marty K.