Short, Luke L., 1854-1893

found: Luke Short and his era, c1961:p. 185 (his tombstone reads: "Luke L. Short, 1854-1893")

found: The notorious Luke Short, 2015:ECIP Data View (Book is a biography of the western gambler and occasional gunfighter Luke Short (born 1854, died 1893). He was born in Arkansas but lived most of his adult life in Fort Worth, Texas. He is most famous for shooting Jim Courtright in Fort Worth and for being kicked out of Dodge City, Kansas) ECIP Chapter 1 (Erroneous information concerning Luke L. Short starts with controversy over the actual date and place of his birth. Short was born in Polk County, Arkansas [not in Mississippi, as stated in William R. Cox's biography published in 1961] on January 22, 1854; named Luke Lamar after his grandfather) ECIP Chapter 4 (He died September 8, 1893, at a hotel called the Gilbert House in Geuda Springs, Sumner County, Kansas)

found: Wikipedia, Jan. 30, 2015(Luke L. Short was an American Old West gunfighter, farmer, cowboy, whiskey peddler, army scout, dispatch rider, gambler, and saloon keeper. He survived a shoot-out with the well known gunman, Jim Courtright)