"Arizona Bill" Gardner - cavalryman, scout, Indian fighter, frontiersman, prospector, and Wild West performer with Buffalo Bill. He served as a scout with Custer. He was a colorful character at Fort Sam Houston, where he is buried at Gardner Circle, named after him. He collaberated a book called, "The Old Wild Wild West".

Joe Gardner - he lived in the saddle. He was born in 1877 in Texas, his father was John Henry Gardner, an early Texas cowboy who on one drive rode with Sam Bass and Joel Collins, and his uncle, was a distinguished Texas Indian fighter. Joe and a friend, named Clay McGongile, once threatened to kill the principal in 1897, for a dispute. Joe and Clay later were in rodeos with the likes of Will Rogers, William S. Hart, and Tom Mix. Joe Gardner had a gray horse named "Skunk" whom he rode the last ten years of his life, and Gardner won the World Championship Steer Roping Contest after 21 days of competition in Chicago in 1920. He later died in 1921 from stomach cancer.

Roy Gardner - He was quick with a gun, controversial, and no prison could hold him. He was an outlaw, train robber, and gunrunner. He was described as having blue eyes and dark curly hair. He was said to be the "Gentleman Bandit" and the "King of Escape Artists". He was a one-time most wanted gangster and later served out his prison sentence at Alcatraz, and committed suicide in 1940. His name was as well known to lawmen in California as Jesse James.

Joseph William "Peter" Gardner - traildriver, Indian fighter, and rancher. He was one of the most distinguished traildrivers and Indian fighters in Texas.

George Gardner - sometime cowboy, gunman, law officer, and Wild West performer. He rode with Buffalo Bill's Wild Bunch and his trophy gun, badge, belt, and hand tooled holster are in the Gene Autry Museum.

Frank Gardiner - famous Australin bushranger. He was bushranger, outlaw, horse thief, rustler, and had participated in several robbings and shootouts, and served time in prison.

My great great great grandfather was Lewis Gardner, who divorced his wife in Mississippi, and went to Texas where he traded horses, and was later killed in a gunfight with horse thieves at Natchez, Texas west of Brownsville near the King Ranch.