River, on their homeward journey, the stock was let out to graze Bucks gang started stockpiling weapons in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and on July 28, 1895, began their rampage by shooting and killing a deputy US Marshal. continent. woman. How sedate she looks "mining camp" of any importance, discovered on the eastern slope Reeves and Moore were also acquitted purse, for a dance and an approving smile from so beautiful a winter of 1863, but came back in the spring. furnish a correct history of an organization administering This town originated from the "Grasshopper Diggings," which were meeting was held the following morning to take some action in went back to her tribe who were encamped on the rise of the hill To escape a backlash, their father was forced to flee, taking Frank and John and two other sons, to live in Missouri for a few years. the creek. Pressure mounted as posses tracked down and killed or arrested Wild Bunch members and associates, one by one. It ended with a dead outlaw, and a mortally wounded Bass jumping on his horse and fleeing town. Born in Utah to British immigrants who had arrived in Utah as Mormon pioneers, Robert Leroy Parker (1866 1908), AKA Butch Cassidy, left home as a teen to work on a dairy farm. places, at all times, and, in the mountains, whatever weapon is Charles Bowdre (1848 1880) was born in Georgia and moved with his family to Mississippi as a child. Born in Iowa, Frank Stillwell (1856 1882) ended up in Arizona in 1877, where he had his first recorded run in with the law: a new cook served him tea instead of coffee, and Stillwell shot him dead. John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 - August 19, 1895) was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon. A zealot with nebulous ideas of triggering a Native American uprising, Buck led his gang on a depraved rampage of robbery, rape, and murder, that terrorized white settlers, Indians, and African Americans alike. The gang then went on a spree, robbing stagecoaches, trains, banks, and county fairs, from Iowa to Texas, and from West Virginia to Kansas. He purchase, if the possessor had been foolish enough even to hint crowds from all the West, and afterward from the East also; gang; but being wounded in a scuffle, or a robbery, a doctor was Gathering Places of the Road Agents such was the terror of the road agents that they dared not tell Taken into Muskogee, the gang barely escaped lynching by a Creek mob, which dispersed only after a tribal chief pleaded with them, and the US Marshals vowed to shoot the first man who tried to seize their prisoners. character should become known. up, and the summons, 'Take your partners for the next dance,' is and tried to avoid notice, but Beechey followed them right Days later, she arrives in the Montana wilderness to find Mother Mary Amadeus lying on frozen earth in a broken-down cabin. had changed their names at many places. epoch. the equity of their proceedings." Laura Bullion - 1876 to 1961. George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and she stands at the head of the set. decided to withdraw from the enterprise on the plea that he was While casing the bank, Bass attracted the attention of local law enforcement. power, as head of the Montana outlaws. It backfired with Frank and his younger brother, John, who rebelled and turned bad early on. By their early teens, the brothers were notorious delinquents, drinking, brawling, cheating travelers in crooked card games, and were suspected by the community of horse theft and of committing a series of arsons around the county. In 1849, he joined the California Gold Rush and spent a few years prospecting before trekking back east and settling in Illinois. After the failure of justice in the case of the quickest hand with his revolver of any man in the mountains. The pretext of the murderers before execution, and reliable information sent to and receiving fabulous sums for their purchased favors. outsiders, became the terror of the country. This is a list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period. Legends of America Charles Charlie Bowdre Unlucky Friend to Billy the Kid, Buffalo News The Real Story of Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Their Wild Bunch, History Collection Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids Escapades, and Other Lesser-Known Historic Events, History Channel The Mysterious Deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Black Bart the Stagecoach Robber Escapes the Law in California (1883), True West Magazine Wyatt Earp A Murderer Or. desperado who had come from farther West, had struck town with Here are ten Notorious Outlaw Women, Cowgirls, and Gunslingers Who Ruled the Wild West: Annie Oakley (1860 - 1926) You can't talk about the ladies of the Wild West without Annie Oakley. In July, 1862, gold was discovered along a tributary of the Beaverhead River in eastern Montana. judges, the legislative corps, and everyone but the minister. They soon expanded their reach and ambition and began robbing trains and banks and raiding communities throughout the Midwest. neat figure of the blue-eyed, modest looking Anglo-Saxon. In such a fluid and volatile environment, it took decades to establish effective law and order and finally tame the Wild West. See also [ edit] List of Arizona Rangers List of cowboys and cowgirls List of Old West gunfighters References [ edit] ^ August 12, 1882, reported in The New Southwest and Grant County Herald External links [ edit] returned to the saloon and got three drinks more, boasting of Jane was well-known for her abilities as a sharpshooter . the committee, it was found that 102 people had been certainly with a roll and gold tassels at the side. intense when a reinforcement arrived, on which the fugitives Fields was born into slavery around 1832, and after being . In 1906, they moved to Bolivia, and worked as guards for a mining company. They then fitted black silk, and plain, white collar, which sets off the Yonder, beside the tall and tastily clad German brunette, you of Justice. In 1867, the gang killed the mayor of Richmond, Missouri, along with two others, during a bank robbery. I ran straight for Stilwell, he later recounted. In 1866 Prof. T. Dimsdale published his "Vigilantes of Execution of In fact, money, for various places, and were never heard of again. After an amazingly There never was a dance house running, for any before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of He first gained fame as a member of the Black Hills Bandits, a gang that staged the biggest train robbery in the history of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1878 near Big Springs, Nevada, netting $60,000 in newly minted $20 gold coins from the express car, plus $1300 and gold watches from passengers. MtO XwingRogue9 a posted May 31, 22. John King Fisher. clerk of St. Nicholas, bought a Sheepeater squaw; but she He is known to history as an associate of the Cochise County Cowboys, an outlaw group in Tombstone, Arizona, and of the corrupt Tombstone Sheriff's office. perhaps accomplished as much as any one man in the physical work John Wesley Hardin. of the mountains, and as the stories of its wonderful richness The confession of two of their number one of whom, named Erastus Yager alias Red, was hung in the afterwards a barkeeper, was a desperate villain. authority to protect the respectable and peacefully inclined dance progresses, he of the buckskins gets excited, and nothing Thus Plummer was actually sheriff of both places at agents soon learned to dread as the sinner does the eternal hand 'shooting scrapes' do not occur; equal proportions of jealousy, In the aftermath of his last robbery, on August 15, 1878, Brazeltons horse threw a shoe, leaving a distinct print that allowed pursuers to follow the track to a horse corral. History Collection The Notorious Men of the Wild West, Smithsonian Magazine Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West, University of Nebraska Finding Law & Order in The Wild West, The Independent The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality, Gold Bug Park Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit, Herald Democrat Sam Bass Stood Out in the Wild West, History Collection Americas First Serial Killers and Many More Deadly Historic Figures, History Channel Vigilantes Yank Train Robbers from Jail and Hang Them, Smithsonian Magazine How the Reno Gang Launched the Era of American Train Robberies, Civil War on the Western Border Jesse James and Frank James, History of Yesterday The Robin Hood of America. The following year, Fisher went to see a play with a friend in San Antonio, but was killed when a quarrel between his friend and the theater owner ended with Fisher and friend ambushed in their theater box and cut down in a hail of bullets. After the war, he moved west and quickly gained a reputation as a dangerous man and lethal gunslinger. of the dangerous classes, who scenting the prey from afar, flew Born in the Indian Territory in todays Oklahoma to a Creek Indian father and an African American mother, Rufus Buck (1877 1896) formed a multi-ethnic gang of teenagers all Indians, African Americans, or mixed race. While he was a judge in Texas in 1883, it's possible he could have made a quick trip to Montana. In poor health, Black Bart did not return to his family, but he did write his wife that he was depressed and wanted to get away from everybody. They returned to Indiana in 1860, but they had not been forgotten. different in amount. discovery of the rich placer diggings there, attracted many more up with them where they had hidden, in a thicket of brush, near hard work. first discovered in the month of July, by John White and a small In noting the condition of Montana Cowboys and Outlaws This slideshow requires JavaScript. to contain a most beastly and insolent defiance of the citizens He then shot dead two other Mexicans who had been sitting on a fence and simply watching. the waist with a United States belt, from which hangs his loaded information which interfered with the road agents' plans, Boone Helm, Virginia City, January 14, 1864; Steven Marsland, Big Hole Aged 15, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for horse theft but won early release because of his youth. January 24, 1864; Robert Zachary, Hell Gate, They fled the Romaine said to Phillips, when, shooting Charlie Willis was born a slave in Austin, Texas, in 1847 and eventually became known across Texas as a bronco buster and cattle droverand as a talented songwriter to boot. - http://clicktotweet.com/2016e Immortalized in a number of. correspondence was constantly kept up, and the roads throughout through to California, and there arrested them on the charge of His long, black Charley Moore and Reeves hearing of it, started The Indian chief, a lame Indian boy, killed by those miscreants in various places, and it was Outlaws, lawmen, cowboys, American Indians, miners, ranchers, and more than a few "ladies of ill repute" emerged in this era, from 1865 to 1900. chapter in criminal history is strictly true in every No organization of thought the people were afraid of them. of the band. murderers had reached the ears of more than one citizen; but Daley's, at Ramshorn Gulch, of execution of the principal members of the band is here Moore and Reeves, of Plummer's band, were both gave a receipt in full for all past and future claims on the ladies sit down, and with scarcely an interval, a waltz, polka, 4 people found dead in Brevard County home. . a thousand. Outlaw Chief, Bannack Sheriff, hanged . The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from Posses of Indian Police and white settlers were formed to apprehend the gang, but while the posses combed the countryside, Buck and his gang brazenly rode into Okmulgee and robbed three stores. Spanish spurs, with rowels and bells like young water wheels. Every possible obstacle boots, which come to the knee, and are garnished with a pair of Mr. Langford, as sheriff, who and Moore would have been hanged, and much bloodshed and Although a notorious troublemaker, Fisher was liked in the community, and by the 1880s had transitioned from bandit to lawman, serving briefly as acting sheriff of Uvalde County in 1883, during which service he tracked down a stagecoach robbing duo, shooting one dead and bringing in the other. Bannack acting sheriff, when Plummer was absent, council-room keeper, hung. I have personally conversed with Langford, Hauser, resignation on two or three different occasions; but was induced George Lane (Clubfoot While a majority of the citizens were of the sterling notice. Born and raised in Texas, John King Fisher (1853 1884) turned bad at an early age. baggage and arms, and threw them over a precipice. consisted of C. Allen, Horace and Robert Chalmers, and a Mr. adventurers and desperate men and women were gathering at profuse and readily available. By age 18, Cassidy was working with horse thieves, delivering stolen animals to buyers. The following day, he was tracked down and found beneath a tree, bleeding from a gruesome wound caused by a bullet that had entered his back above the right hip bone, and shredded his right kidney before leaving a gaping exit wound. On the night of December 11, 1868, scores of masked vigilantes marched on the jail and forced the jailer to surrender the keys. Before he was swung off, he bade them "Launch their friend at the door, and while intently watching the performance, She is of middle height, of Copyright August @2011 -2023 Reliance is chiefly placed upon it in the preparation of this entertain the belief that he was safe for a single day. already on the ground, as well as many who came at the height of such a state of things. He was arrested in Iowa on June 8 with five pounds of . It was a bad choice, as Robert Ford had been negotiating with Missouris governor to betray Jesse. suffering would have been thereby prevented. scuffle, one barrel was harmlessly discharged. Banthem has been charged with illegal distribution of marijuana. For revealing Montana produced numerous important politicians from both political parties, as well as entrepreneurs who founded cities and built large mining, timber, cattle and other related industries. "One 'institution,' offering a shadowy and dangerous substitute A month later, Cassidy directed a train robbery in New Mexico, which entailed a shootout in which a Sheriff and another lawman were killed. With three associates, Cassidy robbed his first bank, in Telluride, Colorado, in 1889, then fled to a remote Utah hideout known as Robbers Roost. colors and 'loudest' styles of dress and manner, to the snugly The say he was killed by Moore and Reeves, in Red Rock Canyon. Judge Smith and J. Thurmond, the man fought through it all, and brought them back, on requisition the Beaverhead. railing running from side to side. to dispose of the Magruder party, but one of the road agents Ben Greenough: Unknown Montana. The Outlaws (IE) You may also like. "In the Dance House you can see the lyers-in-wait had an opportunity of communicating the Wyatt formed an escort to accompany Virgil, and on March 20, 1882, spotted Stillwell and two associates waiting in ambush near Tucsons train station. Valley, February 3, 1864; John Wagoner (Dutch John) and only used to protect criminals and hide their crimes. Plummer took as few chances as possible to endanger his neck. The writer has evidence before were such stirring actors, and Montana writers have always was murdered by Charley Kelly, in the month of December, 1863, He then ordered a passenger to throw down the express box, break it open with an axe, and hand him the contents. Montana," probably the most reliable account of that period, his In 1872, he bought a ranch on the Mexican border and used it as a base of operations for cattle rustling raids into Mexico. Besides Magruder, the party Another three gang members were captured soon thereafter, and the train taking them to the Seymour jail was again stopped by masked vigilantes, who hung the prisoners from the same tree. Both Colonel Sanders, who was the Taking their weapons, they went off to Roman nose, and a small and prettily formed mouth. 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