Billy Bob Thornton’s 1883 Character Jim Courtright Was a Real Life Gunslinger

“There’s only one killer in Ft. Worth, and that’s me,” husks Marshal Jim Courtright in the second episode of the Yellowstone prequel 1883. The Billy Bob Thornton-played lawman makes an instant impression in his short stint on screen, yet of all of the cowboy characters that appear in the show’s fictional version of Fort Worth, Courtright stands out, because unlike the Duttons and Sam Elliott’s scene-stealing Shea Brennan, Courtright actually happens to be based on a real life gunslinger. Who was Jim Courtright? He was born Timothy Isaiah Courtright in 1845 Illinois, but relatively little is known about Courtright’s early… Read Full Article