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Henry Newton Brown (1857 – April 30 1884) was an American Old West gunman who played the roles of both lawman and outlaw during his life.Brown was raised in Cold Springs Township in Phelps County ten miles south of Rolla Missouri. An orphan he lived there with his uncle Jasper and aunt Aldamira Richardson until the age of seventeen when he left home and headed west. He drifted through various cowboy jobs in Colorado and Texas supposedly killing a man in a gunfight in the Texas Panhandle.