Little-Bit McCallion (died 1865) was an American gunslinger and soldier of fortune of the Wild West who was affiliated with Joe Erin's outlaw gang during the 1860s. He and the rest of Erin's gang were killed in Mexico while fighting for the Second Mexican Empire against Benito Juarez's liberal rebels.
Biography[]
"Little-Bit" McCallion was born in the United States, and he became a gunslinger in the Wild West and joined Joe Erin's outlaw gang in Texas. The gang came to Mexico during the Franco-Mexican War of the 1860s to serve as soldiers-of-fortune, and they became reluctant partners with Erin's new acquaintance Ben Trane in 1865. The gang behaved boorishly when they were brought to Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico's palace at Mexico City to be hired as escorts for Countess Marie Duvarre's convoy from the capital to Veracruz; during the ride, they had to be restrained by Erin and Trane because of their scrappy nature and their mistreatment of Mexican women (McCallion lassoed and teased Nina Fernandez until Trane lassoed him from his horse and pulled him away from the woman). When the gang accompanied Erin and Trane to steal the convoy's carriage after the Americans' treacherous plans to steal the convoy's valuables were discovered by the Marquis Henri de Labordere, the gang decided to mutiny against Erin and Trane, as they deduced that the two men were cutting them out of whatever goods the two men believed were in the carriage. The mutiny was briefly averted when no gold was found in the carriage, and General Mauricio Ramirez's Juarista rebels proceeded to ambush the group, with a sharpshooter killing McCallion at the start of the attack.