William Brocius (c. 1845 – March 24, 1882), better known as
Curly Bill Brocius, was a
gunman,
rustler and an
outlaw Cowboy in the
Cochise County area of the
Arizona Territory during the early 1880s. His name is almost certainly an alias, and there is evidence linking him to another outlaw named William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham who had committed an 1878 attempted robbery in
El Paso,
Texas.