It's pretty obvious the first nine of this series were way too easy (had to be, just look at how many Big Hext got right out of the chute). Let's see if this one doesn't require a little more effort. The narrator of the following sworn statement is the gunfighter in question.
When Wood Hite first came in he spoke to me, and I told him I did not want him to speak to me, as he had accused me of stealing $100 at the divide in the Blue Cut robbery. I told him he lied; he said he could prove it (his accusation) by Mrs. Bolton, and I wanted him to prove it. He then denied ever saying anything of the kind. I told him he did say it, and we both commenced drawing our pistols.
We fired about the same time. He shot me through the right leg between the knee and the hip, and I shot him through the right arm. He fired four times at me and I five times at him, and then I snapped another barrel at him. I drew my other pistol when he commenced falling.
Bob Ford fired one shot at him. I did not know this until afterward, when he (Bob) exhibited the empty chamber. The wound that killed Hite was through the head. It struck him about two inches above the right eye and came out in front of and a little above the left ear.
Bob claimed that his shot was the fatal one. Hite lived 15 or 20 minutes, but did not speak. We carried him upstairs, and that night of Dec 4, Cap and Bob dug a grave in the woods about half a mile from the house and buried him. My leg was too sore to help. We did not use a coffin.
(from The Badman of the West, by George Hendricks)
