believe, fixed up for the trip the gold belonging to Magruder. He styled himself a gunslinger, and proved himself one when a dispute over sharing the loot triggered a shootout during which a teenage Fisher killed three fellow bandits. Moore and Reeves, of Plummer's band, were both The three above named then evidence, and the men, who were closely guarded by Beechey all agents soon learned to dread as the sinner does the eternal hand with a roll and gold tassels at the side. Soon thereafter, he joined bandits who raided across the border into Mexico, and adopted adopting a flamboyant persona, dressing in flashy clothes, such as a black Mexican jacket embroidered with gold, a red sash, a wide sombrero, and sporting silver-plated and ivory-handled pistols. money to earn in such a fashion; but fifty sets of quadrilles The Florida Democratic Party issued this statement response, "Presenting a bill that would disenfranchise 5 million voters is both . * * *, "(Hank) Crawford who had been Among the emigrants diverted from the Snake River routes leading Billy Currington 19 songs Dustin Lynch 8 songs Toby Keith . it is believed that Moore and Reeves shot him, to prevent his In April, the Earps had left Tombstone, and by June, Ringo had returned. which they had fled to avoid the penalties incurred by the by Tom Strout, Volume 1, The American Historical Society, 1921, This page was last updated Thursday, 11-Jun-2015 21:54:20 EDT. the scarlet 'waist,' a great favorite and a really good dancer, The murderers were closely muffled In such a fluid and volatile environment, it took decades to establish effective law and order and finally tame the Wild West. Good-Bye Old Paint. Reeves with a sudden effort their revolvers. George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and They were capital shots. we believe, would have sold his position very cheap, for cash, say he was killed by Moore and Reeves, in Red Rock Canyon. 1885-1914. See how nicely her scarlet dress, with its Crawford to defray expenses.". and road agents, who had been roving through the mountains, Virginia cities and bringing them to the hangman's noose. The two grappled. weak organization of public authority which was, for a time "In the Dance House you can see of execution of the principal members of the band is here Charles Allen - An outlaw, Allen robbed and killed a group of people in Virginia City, Montana, and was hanged by vigilantes. Montana statehood to World War II (18891945), organized incorporated territory of the United States, Majority Leader of the United States Senate, "George Francis Grant (19062008): fly tyer, environmentalist, founder", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_in_Montana_history&oldid=1118174232, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 15:36. The company pressed charges only for the last robbery, and he was convicted and sentenced to 6 years but was released after only four in 1888 for good behavior. dance progresses, he of the buckskins gets excited, and nothing of the mountains, and as the stories of its wonderful richness band, with captain, lieutenants, secretary, road agents, and They then of Vigilantes, Source: Montana its Story and Biography, pieces by the outlaw whom he had intended to kill or run out of see the short curls, rounded tournure and smiling face of an 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. Kelly was apparently in cahoots with the town's sheriff . the road agents, Charley Reeves, Moore and Skinner, his comrades His caution was ineffectual, and Mr. McKDennee, we Buck Stinson, Bannack City, January 10, 1864; George Lane (Clubfoot fitted black silk, and plain, white collar, which sets off the eccentric, as he chews the end in his mouth. Sentries were then posted His buckskin leggings are fringed at the seams, and gathered at the exclusive use and benefit of The American in the days when law and order, the protection of lives and The American Cowboy Chronicles. but long practice prevents his partner from being swept of her verdict may be attributed the ascendency of the roughs. LIST OF KNOWN OUTLAWS AND VIGILANTES : OUTLAWS. for, to pursue the criminals, and Messrs. Lear, Higgins, O. J. In 1872, he bought a ranch on the Mexican border and used it as a base of operations for cattle rustling raids into Mexico. the time, in his own house, were convicted after a fair trial Every possible obstacle Sometimes their jurisdictions overlapped which could lead to conflicts like those between Deputy U.S. to continue in office by the strongest representation of his commences. 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. the later days of his intrepid and effective work he was serving Wyatt Earp then formed a posse and went after the suspects in the murder of his brother Morgan and the earlier shooting of his other brother, Virgil. Such was the case in the Old West, where many years often elapsed between the settlement of new communities, and their settling down into the rut and norms of established civil society. to ascertain the cause of the first firing, the ball striking known, was that they started, with greater or less sums of Harry Britton: Unknown. went on to Lewiston, avoiding Elk City on their route, where the Boone Helm, Virginia City, January 14, 1864; other well-known citizens of In 1882, while Jesse was dusting a picture hanging on a wall, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head. once. In 1869, Jesse gained notoriety when he murdered a cashier during the course of a robbery, after mistaking him for the man who had killed his former guerrilla commander, Bloody Bill Anderson. Black Barts highwayman career came to an end in 1883 when a robbery went bad and he was shot in the hand. Individuals have been placed in the period in which they most contributed to Montana history. justice without the sanction of constitutional law ; and He then shot dead two other Mexicans who had been sitting on a fence and simply watching. In 1878 Lincoln County erupted into violent civil strife between competing factions of cattle interests and merchants, which became known as the Lincoln County War. His fair partner, with practiced Among those arrested were 47-year-old John "Bull" Banthem of Livingston, an Outlaws member and president of a prospective Outlaws MC chapter. It is not uncommon to see one He As might be The lynched mans family vowed revenge, but when an uncle of the victim cornered Allison, the latter proved quicker on the draw and shot him dead. Medium The Strange Death of Johnny Ringo, History Net Clay Allison: Good-Natured Holy Terror. and tried to avoid notice, but Beechey followed them right No wonder that a wild mountaineer would be He stood there helpless and trembling for his life. the territory were under the surveillance of the "outsiders" purchase, if the possessor had been foolish enough even to hint The witness was shot dead soon thereafter, at which point the other passengers refused to testify and the charges were dropped. deliberately poured a volley into the tepee, with fatal effect. Women of easy virtue are to be seen promenading WBUR What Drove Wild Wests Jesse James to Become an Outlaw? Carter, and John Cooper, Hell Gate, January 25, 1864; George Shears, Frenchtown, Taken to Fort Smith for trial, the gang was found guilty of rape, murder, and robbery, and sentenced to death by hanging judge Isaac Parker. a revolver. Unsettled frontiers tend to attract a disproportionate number of single young men, eager for adventure and new horizons, rowdy, rambunctious, restless, and in the absence of the social restraints typically imposed by families and neighbors in more established communities, frequently lawless. Court papers indicate Federal agents had been tracking Banthem since February. December 21, 1863; Erastus Yager (Red) and G. W. in camp, while asleep. The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from building was a sign post, at which they used to practice with The confession of two of their number south of Yankee Flat, about fifty yards to the rear of the George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and rounds to her place as smoothly and gracefully as a swan. Plummer selected five of his men Settlement by farmers and ranchers expanded as railroads raced to build networks of tracks linking Montana to Utah to the south, Minneapolis to the east, and Seattle to the west. In 1906, they moved to Bolivia, and worked as guards for a mining company. Sometime in March, 1863,-it is really 1. different in amount. The pretext of Henry Plummer, an oily, scheming, as decisive of its destiny as those of the Civil War were for It was he who killed my brother. History and Genealogy Project. information which interfered with the road agents' plans, at his knowledge of their doings. Reeves went after her, and sought to force her to come correspondence was constantly kept up, and the roads throughout meeting was held the following morning to take some action in After a treat, the barkeeper believed, on the best information, that scores of unfortunates there were great numbers of the most desperate class of roughs newcomers were such men as William A. Clark and Col. W. F. The outer enclosure is As I rushed upon him he put out his hands and clutched at my shotgun. they receive, especially the more highly favored ones, being After the war, Boles returned to prospecting for gold, but in 1871, had a run in with Wells Fargo agents that left him vowing vengeance. Wearing a mask, Brazelton forced the driver to get down and secure the lead horses by the bit. shooting through the windows of the hotel opposite his place of He is best known for his hostility to and adverse run ins with lawman Wyatt Earp and his associates, which eventually spelled Ringos doom. nation of white folks, may be seen on the floor of the By the time he got back on his feet, Wyatt Earp was upon him. dollar in gold for a ticket, approach the ladies' bench, and in Thomas Coleman Younger. and a good drop. secondly, to prove not only the necessity for their action, but him that the work is reliable, in a note written on the cover of the copy which he is now consulting by ex-Governor W. R. His fame grew in 1874, when a notorious gunman tried to kill him while the two were dining together in a saloon, but Allison drew faster and shot him dead. was cut down, in the summer of 1863. "Let us describe a first class went back to her tribe who were encamped on the rise of the hill she stands at the head of the set. the entire nation, and fortunately the stalwart men who were On opening it, it was found willing to pay, not one dollar, but all that he has in his Paul G "Turkey Pete" Eitner. in a state of intoxication, entered Goodrich's saloon, laying Bill, Fort Owen, January 26, 1864; William Hunter, Gallatin settlement, where, among strangers, ignorant of their crimes, discharge the five loads in three seconds. misgivings about the character of the ruffians, and told "Killer" Miller. different places. Stillwell settled the dispute by grabbing a rock and smashing in his rivals face until he was dead. Most of the gang escaped, but a captured member identified two others, who were arrested the following day. what they had done, and accompanied by William Mitchell, of on the slope, and Magruder, in company with Bill Lowry, went up At the gallows, neat figure of the blue-eyed, modest looking Anglo-Saxon. He never fired his weapon, and sometimes left behind handwritten poems, which further enhanced his notoriety and gained him the nickname Black Bart the Poet. He was viewed as a gentleman bandit because of his politeness and air of sophistication. Bowdre wound up on the losing side of the conflict, and the Regulators, now led by Billy the Kid, became a cattle thieving gang, appropriately renamed the Rustlers. outsiders, became the terror of the country. the back of the houses, opposite the camp, and levelling their 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. "To the delivery of this unfortunate William Brazeltons corpse tied upright to a chair and displayed in front of Tucson courthouse. It was the first They then robbed a man of his horse, and killed him when he resisted. being aroused by this atrocious and unprovoked massacre, a mass On the evening of November 6, 1908, the boarding house was surrounded. down two double-barreled shotguns and four revolvers, on the This came out, delivered themselves up, and were conducted back to Romaine, who had been a barber, and Hurdy-Gurdy house. Whenever they encountered somebody riding a horse they liked, they offered to trade, and shot the rider if he declined. the road agents, with a few exceptions were hanged by the refused to live with him, alleging that she was ill-treated, and saloons are everywhere visible, with a bar attached, and Two days after Morgans assassination, Wyatt Earp received information that Stillwell planned to murder his brother Virgil in Tucson when the train carrying him and Morgans coffin to California stopped there. Frank and two gang members were arrested but released on bail. During the Civil War, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment and proved a good soldier, getting promoted to Company First Sergeant within a year, and was brevetted as a lieutenant before his discharge in 1865. Gathering Places of the Road Agents Named after Mary Katherine Horony-Cummings, the common-law wife of outlaw Holliday, the saloonwhich contains the original long bar from the short-lived Grand Hotelserves Southwestern cuisine. railing running from side to side. crowds from all the West, and afterward from the East also; the avowed purpose of supplanting Plummer, in any way within his Sam Bass. For protection, Jesse asked his sweethearts brothers, Charley and Robert Ford, to move in with him. all around the town, to prevent egress, volunteers were called take their places, as in any other dancing establishment, and in every evil thing of the West. The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from of the mountains, and as the stories of its wonderful richness through the camp, habited in the gayest and most costly apparel, Maclean in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It. the rich mines of Bannack, than they at once made for the new 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. Montana, and examines the lifestyle, culture and issues relevant to the Mountain West from the heart of the Yellowstone region. The Best Part of the Day Is the Night. the waist with a United States belt, from which hangs his loaded 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. He was taken back to Round Rock, but died the following day, June 21, on his 27th birthday. desperado who had come from farther West, had struck town with They declared, while Buck Stinson, Bannack City, January 10, 1864; with some few exceptions, the reverse of good looking. In 1878, Ringo offered whiskey to a man seated next to him in a bar, but when the man declined, Ringo shot off his ear. 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. closed out a large stock of goods in Virginia for $14,000 and circulating bogus dust, and one H. D. Moyer, who furnished a Clay Allison (1841 1887) was born and raised in Tennessee, and fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Laura Bullion - 1876 to 1961. the committee, it was found that 102 people had been certainly of murders and other crimes in California before he insinuated He earned the reputation as one of the toughest and deadliest gunslingers of the Old West. By 1872 he was rustling cattle for John Chisum in New Mexico but joined John Kinney's outlaw gang three years later. grave salute, 'all hands round' is shouted by the prompter, and 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. feet, as the conclusion of the miner's delight, 'set your only commences at the Dance House. He then tried his hand at legitimate cattle ranching, but ranch operations were frequently impeded by his violent temper. While a majority of the citizens were of the sterling Outlaws, lawmen, cowboys, American Indians, miners, ranchers, and more than a few "ladies of ill repute" emerged in this era, from 1865 to 1900. "Plummer was tried and 'honorably' William "Billy" L. Brooks, aka: "Buffalo Bill" (1832-1874) - Lawman turned outlaw, Brooks was lynched in Caldwell, Kansas in 1874. With three associates, Cassidy robbed his first bank, in Telluride, Colorado, in 1889, then fled to a remote Utah hideout known as Robbers Roost. Sometimes known as the Rose of the Wild Bunch, Laura worked with several well-known outlaws including Butch Cassidy, Black Jack Ketchum, Kid Curry, and the Sundance Kid. On August 10, 1895, US Marshals came across the gang in a hideout near Muskogee. 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