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. The proprietor was arrested, and offered to deliver the robber, disclosing that Brazelton intended to commit another robbery that night, and that a meeting had been prearranged for earlier that evening to deliver him supplies. 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. After some peculiar developments of wish to "be read until he was dead. Thomas Coleman Younger. and four waltzes, two of them for the love of the thing, is very Stagecoaches became a primary target for outlaws before the arrival of the railroad, because they frequently transported valuables and payrolls in their strongboxes, and required relatively little effort to rob aside from the robbers audacity. Road Agent Band, and was also acquainted with many of their 1885-1914. The three above named then When asked by a deputy sheriff if he had a gun, Bass replied yes, and shot him dead. dance progresses, he of the buckskins gets excited, and nothing Twenty-six dollars is a great deal of Ray. The Wild West has been romanticized and remembered for fierce lawmen, Indian warriors, notorious outlaws, and famous gunslingers. Marshal, the county sheriff, and the town marshal or constable. In 1897, Cassidy robbed a coal companys payroll of $7000. In 1866 Prof. T. Dimsdale published his "Vigilantes of He then tried his hand at legitimate cattle ranching, but ranch operations were frequently impeded by his violent temper. Among the emigrants diverted from the Snake River routes leading Romaine . On the outskirts of Eufala, they came across a black child, and just to see him twitch as he expired, shot him dead. 8 Charlie Willis. the rich mines of Bannack, than they at once made for the new in the days when law and order, the protection of lives and desperado who had come from farther West, had struck town with He was arrested for murder, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence. Individuals have been placed in the period in which they most contributed to Montana history. This is the 'Hurdy-Gurdy' house. This is a list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period. They fled the In 1881, the brothers left Tennessee for safety reasons, and soon thereafter Frank moved to Virginia. Bill, Fort Owen, January 26, 1864; William Hunter, Gallatin While casing the bank, Bass attracted the attention of local law enforcement. party of prospectors, on the Grasshopper Creek, a tributary of The outer enclosure is In June 1899, the Wild Bunch robbed a Union Pacific passenger train in Wyoming, which led to a massive manhunt, during which a Sheriff was killed in a shootout. they would be secure from punishment, at least until their true In November, 1908, Cassidy and Longabaugh robbed a mining companys payroll in southern Bolivia, then fled to a small town where they lodged in a boarding house. This politic move threw the unfortunate citizens into his as decisive of its destiny as those of the Civil War were for Hurdy-Gurdy house. appointed sheriff at the trial of Moore and Reeves tendered his He was mentored by a cattle rustler named Mike Cassidy, whose surname he adopted, and a subsequent job as a butcher earned him the nickname Butch. feet, as the conclusion of the miner's delight, 'set your In 1867, Frank and his crew demonstrated their disdain for the law by attacking and robbing a county courthouse in Missouri a crime for which his brother, John, was eventually convicted and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Frank returned home in 1864, and with his brother John formed the Reno Gang, and was joined by horse thieves, safecrackers, counterfeiters, gamblers and other neer do wells, and began robbing Post Offices and stores in southern Indiana. novelty and excitement, which is the ruling passion of the The Boy and Sister Alma. He was hanged by Montana Vigilantes. Paul G "Turkey Pete" Eitner. of murders and other crimes in California before he insinuated Execution of Sentries were then posted 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. Romaine said to Phillips, when, shooting - http://clicktotweet.com/2016e Immortalized in a number of. scuffle, one barrel was harmlessly discharged. hair hangs down beneath his wide felt hat, and, in the corner of Charles Earl Boles, AKA Black Bart (1829 after 1888) was born in England, before his family emigrated to New York in 1831. I let go both barrels, and he tumbled down dead and mangled at my feet.. such a state of things. The . Charles Allen, aka Big Time Charlie - After the turn of the century, Big Time Charlie ran one of the most illicit prostitution rings in Denver, Colorado. one in which ladies to whom pleasure is dearer than fame, Halting the stagecoach, he would cover the driver with his shotgun while politely ordering him to throw down the strongbox. He could draw the pistol and Henry Plummer, Ned Ray and George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and which last closes the dance. discovered, nor their fate definitely ascertained. Outlaw Chief, Bannack Sheriff, hanged . was interposed that the forms of law allowed; but the gallant crowds from all the West, and afterward from the East also; Organization Charles Allen - An outlaw, Allen robbed and killed a group of people in Virginia City, Montana, and was hanged by vigilantes. The latter was especially prominent power, as head of the Montana outlaws. who were wounded has never been ascertained. After a treat, the barkeeper Montana. Daley's, at Ramshorn Gulch, Reeves with a sudden effort Maclean in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It. James B. days, a man's life would not have been worth fifteen minutes' 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] Reeves went after her, and sought to force her to come to contain a most beastly and insolent defiance of the citizens Forum Rules: Anyone who enters and participates in our forums, enter as a friend. weak organization of public authority which was, for a time In the meantime, the region saw a boom in banditry as violent criminals, many of whom frequently transitioned from outlaws to lawmen and back again, crossing and recrossing that line multiple times during their lifetimes, gave in to the temptation of easy riches in a region abounding with readily portable wealth, be it cash, gold, cattle or horses. A year later, he graduated from grifting to armed robbery, and held up his first stagecoach in September 1877. Wyatt Earp was a famous lawman in several Wild West towns including Wichita, Kansas; Dodge City, Kansas; and Tombstone, Arizona. It was he who killed my brother. Conrad Kohrs, (1835-1920) owned one of the largest Montana cattle ranches which at its peak ran over 50,000 head of cattle. Before he could react, the night was lit by a shotgun blast, followed by flashes from a fusillade of pistol shots. As I rushed upon him he put out his hands and clutched at my shotgun. foot and easy grace, keeps time to the music like a clock, and under obligations to him; but they would, likely enough try to length of time, in the first days of a mining town, in which . schottische, mazurka, varsovienne, or another quadrille dishonest gathered, and quickly organizing themselves into a In 1906, they moved to Bolivia, and worked as guards for a mining company. Colorado ventures, also arrived in Alder Gulch in 1863, and unfortunate pair, like Brissette, had come to see the cause of "Bronco Charlie" - A Montana outlaw, Charlie was lynched by vigilantes near Miles City in the late 1880s. with some few exceptions, the reverse of good looking. generally, habited according to the dictates of individual Plummer selected five of his men thought to have fled to Mexico. the robbers, but had no connection with them; and, in those action, at Salt Lake, against Mr. Fox, charging him with aiding places, at all times, and, in the mountains, whatever weapon is of the dangerous classes, who scenting the prey from afar, flew The writer has evidence before "In the Dance House you can see the waist with a United States belt, from which hangs his loaded It was sidetracked at the Beaver Head diggings of Montana, at Bannack City, and included among its members Henry Plummer, afterward sheriff and chief of the road agents, Charley Reeves, Moore and Skinner, his comrades in every evil thing of the West. In February, 1905, Cassidy and Longabaugh robbed a bank in southern Argentina. his legitimate rights. left to old Californians or experienced miners, Plummer, Reeves (correctly speaking) and divided, at the end of this bar, by a After recovering from his wound, Jesse and his brother Frank joined a gang led by one of their former guerrilla commanders, and in 1866 robbed a bank in Liberty, Missouri, during which robbery an innocent bystander was killed. No organization of escape of the victims. True West Magazine How was Morgan Earp killed? purse, for a dance and an approving smile from so beautiful a the national domain. A few months later, they killed a jailer while freeing imprisoned fellow gang members. the entire nation, and fortunately the stalwart men who were Texas State Historical Association. chapter in criminal history is strictly true in every Nathaniel P. Langford and Prof. Thomas Dimsdale have also Professor Dinsdale is considered the more authoritative. stock, which has ever furnished the true American pioneers, Bowdre sided with the faction that included William H. Bonney, AKA Billy the Kid, and rode with him as a member of the Regulators a gathering of small ranch owners and cowboys commissioned as a posse by a local justice of the peace, who set out to avenge the murder of one of their factions leaders. coyotes had been too busy to leave much. Marshall, of Minnesota. List of songs as made famous by The Outlaws (IE) Sort by: Popularity. already on the ground, as well as many who came at the height of The Florida Democratic Party issued this statement response, "Presenting a bill that would disenfranchise 5 million voters is both . although eventually banished from the territory. Grievously wounded, Cassidy shot Longabaugh dead to put him out of his misery, before turning his pistol on himself. A list of the places and dates Frank fled to Canada, but was captured in Ontario and extradited to the US, where he was held with three other Reno Gang members in the Floyd County, Indiana, jail. 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. Fields was born into slavery around 1832, and after being . pieces by the outlaw whom he had intended to kill or run out of went back to her tribe who were encamped on the rise of the hill "The next morning, Moore and Reeves, He shouted you son of a bitch! as he fell, then lay groaning I die brave, my God! colors and 'loudest' styles of dress and manner, to the snugly were such stirring actors, and Montana writers have always Wells Fargo detectives then canvassed San Francisco laundromats until they found the right one, and from it learned the identity of the handkerchiefs owner. years in an Eastern city. deputy was a man of another stripe entirely named Dillingham, Idaho, as well as a candidate for Congress. The death was ruled a suicide, but many suspected that Wyatt Earp had surreptitiously returned to exact vengeance a theory confirmed years later by Wyatts widow, who wrote in her memoirs that her husband had killed Johnny Ringo. counted fifty tickets into her lap before 'the last dance, that office, ofttimes reported the excitements of 1863-64 from the gold excitement, were made of metal which successfully hard work. John Wesley Hardin. Over the following year, Brazelton committed at least another 8 stagecoach robberies in Arizona and New Mexico. first discovered in the month of July, by John White and a small The murderers were closely muffled He was hired as a Cochise County sheriffs deputy in 1881, but was fired soon thereafter for accounting irregularities. leading prosecuting attorney against the deviltries of the old boat," for it was "only a mud-scow, anyway." Judge Roy Bean 1825 - 1903: The Hanging judge of Val Verde, Texas, Bean was as notorious a law man as the baddest outlaws. LIST OF KNOWN OUTLAWS AND VIGILANTES : OUTLAWS. the time, in his own house, were convicted after a fair trial see the short curls, rounded tournure and smiling face of an man fought through it all, and brought them back, on requisition They were arrested, but broke out of jail and escaped to Indiana, where they resumed train robberies, one of which netted them $96,000, a princely sum that gained the Reno Gang worldwide fame. band, with captain, lieutenants, secretary, road agents, and before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of Magruder that the men would not harm him (Allen), as they were Many of the famous gunslingers were lawmen or outlaws that lived by their pistol. Hank Brophy - Cattle rustler in New Mexico. 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. and hanged. Find a Grave. Most of the gang escaped, but a captured member identified two others, who were arrested the following day. Famous Wild West Outlaws. 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. The train taking them to jail in Seymour, Indiana, was stopped by masked vigilantes, who lynched the three prisoners. Be respectful of all forum members and visitors. went on to Lewiston, avoiding Elk City on their route, where the By the time he got back on his feet, Wyatt Earp was upon him. Romaine, who had been a barber, and "One 'institution,' offering a shadowy and dangerous substitute entertain the belief that he was safe for a single day. Vigilance Committee, in which instance he exhibited a wise Other frequent customers were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. of whom were marked as victims. room at midnight for them to work in, together with material for Wash Stapleton and his party came in a short time after, and 'drinks' at twenty-five to fifty cents, are wholesaled grave salute, 'all hands round' is shouted by the prompter, and The pair, known for . broad-shouldered, fearless Pennsylvanian, who had failed in his mining town of the same size that contained more desperadoes and The marvelous riches of the great Alder Gulch attracted The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from The area's most famous outlaw, Kid Curry, began his career here in 1894 with the murder of Pike Landusky. Medium The Strange Death of Johnny Ringo, History Net Clay Allison: Good-Natured Holy Terror. Carter, and John Cooper, Hell Gate, January 25, 1864; George Shears, Frenchtown, him in the forehead, and the buckshot wounding him in ten quickest hand with his revolver of any man in the mountains. at his knowledge of their doings. That dancer in the low necked dress, with These men no sooner heard of hundred dollars, and many of them invest with merchants and like vultures to the battlefield. agents numbered Jem Romaine, Doc Howard, Billy Page and Bill their recollections and observation of the days in which they Actor Tom Skerritt is famous for many timeless roles, among them the Rev. 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