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Nashville "Buckskin Frank" Franklyn Leslie (March 18, 1842 – 1930) was a U.S. Army scout, gambler, bartender, rancher, miner, and gunfighter and con-man. He was known for his fringed buckskin jacket. He became famous in Tombstone, Arizona for killing two men in self-defense. He married the widow of one of his victims eight days after killing her husband. Following their divorce, Leslie later shot and killed a woman he lived with at his ranch while drunk and in a fit of jealousy. He was sentenced to life in prison but only served six years before he was pardoned. He was last listed in the U.S. Federal Census on January 27, 1920 in Sausalito, California. No public records of him have been found after this date and it is not known when he died.

On May 12, 1922 The Sacramento Union reported on May 11, 1922 that in Seattle Washington that a Frank E. Leslie had been aquitted of a charge of concealing concealed weopons after a altercation with Johnny O'Leary during which O'Leary was shot and killed by Leslie March 10, 1922.

The first wife of Leslie was Mary [Evans] Killeen Deerwood was married to Leslie from 1880 to 1887; she was mentioned in a December 1926 newspaper story