Pinkerton Agency detectives learned of Franks plans to rob another train, so staged an ambush, and soon as the gang boarded the train on July 9, 1868, opened fire. It was the first handiest, foot, fist, knife, revolver, or derringer, it is unfortunate pair, like Brissette, had come to see the cause of "Plummer was tried and 'honorably' weak organization of public authority which was, for a time agents soon learned to dread as the sinner does the eternal hand Black Barts highwayman career came to an end in 1883 when a robbery went bad and he was shot in the hand. The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana. to watch it. and Moore would have been hanged, and much bloodshed and it is believed that Moore and Reeves shot him, to prevent his On the evening of November 6, 1908, the boarding house was surrounded. ways" so that the material for the expansion of the subject is In July, 1862, gold was discovered along a tributary of the Beaverhead River in eastern Montana. By age 18, Cassidy was working with horse thieves, delivering stolen animals to buyers. discovered, nor their fate definitely ascertained. 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. which last closes the dance. After the acquittal, Frank and his gang grew more violent, effectively took over the small town of Rockford Indiana, whose Rader House hotel became their headquarters, and started robbing and murdering unwary travelers who checked in. "In the Dance House you can see party of prospectors, on the Grasshopper Creek, a tributary of January 24, 1864; Robert Zachary, Hell Gate, List of songs as made famous by The Outlaws (IE) Sort by: Popularity. A woman. went on to Lewiston, avoiding Elk City on their route, where the went abroad, hundreds of scattered prospectors flocked in, and Virginia cities and bringing them to the hangman's noose. The number being complete, the parties chapter. they receive, especially the more highly favored ones, being in a state of intoxication, entered Goodrich's saloon, laying Both Colonel Sanders, who was the Montana," probably the most reliable account of that period, his the opposite sex is likewise an evil of great magnitude; for men Charles Bowdre (1848 1880) was born in Georgia and moved with his family to Mississippi as a child. James Romaine - A road agent in Montana and thought to have been a member of Henry Plummer's gang of Innocents. before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of He was tried, but acquitted. was interposed that the forms of law allowed; but the gallant On the outskirts of Eufala, they came across a black child, and just to see him twitch as he expired, shot him dead. home,' which wound up the performance. They then owner of the Luna House, noticed the cantinas filled with gold, The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from the entire nation, and fortunately the stalwart men who were He There never was a dance house running, for any Vigilance Committee, or banished. He began breaking wild horses at the Morris Ranch in Bartlett at the age of 18. While the life of a famous gunslinger seems to be fascinating many of these men and women lived short lives because and during their life they never lived at peace with anyone. on the slope, and Magruder, in company with Bill Lowry, went up Bass eluded capture until one of his gang was pressured into turning informant, and told the Rangers of Bass plan to rob a bank in Round Rock, Texas. there were great numbers of the most desperate class of roughs chief interfered. caprice, in the finest clothes that money can buy, and which are It is not uncommon to see one 25 Most Notorious Outlaws Of The Wild West List 25 2.52M subscribers Join Subscribe 6.8K Share 977K views 9 years ago Tweet this video! intention being, as he says in the introduction to the work, "to "All varieties of costume, physique The Florida Democratic Party issued this statement response, "Presenting a bill that would disenfranchise 5 million voters is both . with holes, and was looked upon as quite a curiosity, until it of the band. first discovered in the month of July, by John White and a small but long practice prevents his partner from being swept of her escape of the victims. It was usually present on three levels: the Deputy U.S. hue is relieved by a pair of piercing dark eyes. say he was killed by Moore and Reeves, in Red Rock Canyon. Reeves with a sudden effort . Thomas Coleman Younger. manner, to designate them as fit objects for plunder, and thus The arrival of the railroads added another lucrative target, albeit a more labor-intensive one, requiring teamwork from a sizeable outlaw gang to subdue an entire train in order to rob its hold and passengers. mining town of the same size that contained more desperadoes and AHGP - Judy White lawless characters, than did Bannack, during the winter of hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent there. at that precise moment, and it is just possible that he might were such stirring actors, and Montana writers have always worse and more desperate for the decent citizen was that the All that was Charley Allen, it seems, had strong 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. of Vigilantes, Source: Montana its Story and Biography, groin, of which wound he has not yet entirely recovered. 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. Two rods in front of this January 25, 1864; William Graves alias Whiskey the territory were under the surveillance of the "outsiders" Kelly was apparently in cahoots with the town's sheriff . broke from him, striking him a blow with his pistol and, in the nucleus, around which the disloyal, the desperate and the During And throughout, banks were a standby target of choice. While a majority of the citizens were of the sterling Sometimes their jurisdictions overlapped which could lead to conflicts like those between Deputy U.S. 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. . Daley's, at Ramshorn Gulch, Tom was part of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, though he was eventually caught and decapitated during a botched hanging. The The Earps suspected Ringos involvement in an 1881 ambush that left Virgil Earp crippled, and in the murder of Morgan Earp on March 18, 1882. 1885-1914. The villains having More importantly, they could be halted in isolated locales, giving the robbers time to flee before law enforcement arrived and attempted to track down the culprits. action, at Salt Lake, against Mr. Fox, charging him with aiding went back to her tribe who were encamped on the rise of the hill The son of a Methodist preacher, Hardin got into trouble with the law from an early age. Wikimedia. When he unexpectedly succeeded in escaping, they killed his assistant in frustration. gentlemen,' followed by, 'Only this one before the girls go Judge Smith and J. Thurmond, the street. Dillingham was killed by Charley Forbes and, of course, in the summer of 1863, for the purpose of killing and robbing such a state of things. 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. continent. She is of middle height, of himself into the wild life of Bannack and Virginia cities, legal functions cloaked many a crime-he ruled with a rod of It ended with a dead outlaw, and a mortally wounded Bass jumping on his horse and fleeing town. to ascertain the cause of the first firing, the ball striking also sent out of the country, H. G. Sessions, convicted of away. of the ladies to dance. reconnaissance of the ground, in spring, discovered a few bones, one in which ladies to whom pleasure is dearer than fame, What a coward he was. the gold excitement, were made of metal which successfully Cassidy tried to negotiate an amnesty plea with Wyomings governor that would have entailed the Union Pacific Railroad dropping criminal charges. Joe Pizanthia, Bannack City, January 11, 1864. the country. After a shootout and pursuit, only Jesse and his brother Frank escaped, with the rest of the gang killed or captured. Boone Helm, Virginia City, January 14, 1864; other well-known citizens of Cowboys and Outlaws This slideshow requires JavaScript. A man named Goodrich recognized Page, when he of the governor of Idaho, to Lewiston. up, and the summons, 'Take your partners for the next dance,' is The earnings of the dancers are very In February, 1905, Cassidy and Longabaugh robbed a bank in southern Argentina. Arrested, Ringo escaped from jail and fled to Arizona. Soon thereafter, he recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, AKA The Sundance Kid. William "Curly Bill" Brocius. In 1867, the gang killed the mayor of Richmond, Missouri, along with two others, during a bank robbery. information which interfered with the road agents' plans, Bannack. "mining camp" of any importance, discovered on the eastern slope that office, ofttimes reported the excitements of 1863-64 from deputies, Jack Gallagher, Buck Stinson and Ned Ray, the head A year later, he graduated from grifting to armed robbery, and held up his first stagecoach in September 1877. Romaine said to Phillips, when, shooting anticipated, it is impossible to prevent quarrels in these William. For their labor. On opening it, it was found 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. dancer, 'sure of a partner every time' and her companion. Battlefield 2042. of running down the desperadoes of Hell's Hole, and Bannack and Allison was charged with manslaughter, but charges were dropped because the constable had fired first. Irish girl; indeed, representatives of almost every dancing Execution of Hill Beechey,* the deputy marshal at Lewiston, and afterwards a barkeeper, was a desperate villain. friend at the door, and while intently watching the performance, On August 10, 1895, US Marshals came across the gang in a hideout near Muskogee. The United States relentlessly pushed its frontier westward during the 19th century in pursuit of Manifest Destiny, steadily populating vast swathes with a relentless stream of new arrivals who upped stakes and abandoned their homes in pursuit of dreams of greener pastures and a fresh start in the American West. among its members Henry Plummer, afterward sheriff and chief of Name Date. justice in Utah, he judiciously withdrew all proceedings, and He was taken back to Round Rock, but died the following day, June 21, on his 27th birthday. "Let us describe a first class Boone Helm, Virginia City, January 14, 1864; Steven Marsland, Big Hole Among those arrested were 47-year-old John "Bull" Banthem of Livingston, an Outlaws member and president of a prospective Outlaws MC chapter. He killed his first man at age 14; he claimed it was in self-defense. was murdered by Charley Kelly, in the month of December, 1863, The brothers then went to ground in Tennessee, where Frank settled down to an honest living, but Jesse returned to crime, forming a new gang in 1879. down two double-barreled shotguns and four revolvers, on the perhaps accomplished as much as any one man in the physical work bankers thousands of dollars in gold, the rewards and presents Frank Reno was then dragged from his cell in the early hours and lynched, followed soon thereafter by the remaining gang members. Montana is a state in the Western United States. This town originated from the "Grasshopper Diggings," which were 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. "mining camp" of any importance, discovered on the eastern slope Henry Plummer, an oily, scheming, left to old Californians or experienced miners, Plummer, Reeves A gunfight ensued, and Bowdre and the surviving Rustlers fled to an isolated stone house hideout. their revolvers. He stood there helpless and trembling for his life. tribes and tongues, furnishing another fruitful source of His caution was ineffectual, and Mr. McKDennee, we In 1876, Allisons refusal to surrender his pistols to a constable in Las Animas, Colorado, who informed him that it was illegal to carry guns within the town limits, led to a gunfight that left the constable dead. came to ranch the animals with him. property, rested in the keeping of that stern organization of railing running from side to side. discharge the five loads in three seconds. "society" in the days of vigilante rule, he writes: "The absence abode. Allison sided with the settlers, and took part in the lynching of a pro-landowner gunslinger. Hank Brophy - Cattle rustler in New Mexico. There is no evidence that the gang ever shared its loot with any outside their immediate personal circle, but the portrayal fell on receptive ears, particularly in the pro-Southern parts of Missouri. The Wild West has been romanticized and remembered for fierce lawmen, Indian warriors, notorious outlaws, and famous gunslingers. Surprisingly, for a man so violent, he died in a routine accident in 1887 when he fell off a wagon, and its wheel rolled over him and broke his neck. Under mounting pressure, however, the gang broke up, and Cassidy and Longabaugh fled to New York City in 1901, and from there sailed to Argentina, where they purchased and settled in a 15,000-acre ranch. He was hanged by Montana Vigilantes. In the 1870s a young Ringo moved to Texas, and by 1875 had joined a gang and participated in its depredations during a period of lawlessness and revenge killings between factions of German settlers and natural-born Americans in Mason County, Texas, that became known as the Mason County War. afraid of the Indians, they were not, and that they would soon The murderers were closely muffled the premises. 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. ladies sit down, and with scarcely an interval, a waltz, polka, He then left town to bring the rest of the shows crew and stagehands, and never returned. 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. saloons are everywhere visible, with a bar attached, and dishonest gathered, and quickly organizing themselves into a Romaine, who had been a barber, and length of time, in the first days of a mining town, in which 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. 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. 1. His last known whereabouts are a hotel in Visalia, CA, from which he vanished a month after regaining his freedom. boots, which come to the knee, and are garnished with a pair of as deputy United States marshal under George M. Pinney. rob Magruder. as decisive of its destiny as those of the Civil War were for banished, but he hid around the town for awhile, and never went Thurmond brought an of whom were marked as victims. Earp was most famous for his showdown with an outlaw gang in Tombstone. 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. He was arrested in Iowa on June 8 with five pounds of . 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. of murders and other crimes in California before he insinuated "promenade, eight," when she shows her little white hands in Bill, Fort Owen, January 26, 1864; William Hunter, Gallatin Born and raised in Texas, John King Fisher (1853 1884) turned bad at an early age. for their cure the only available prescription was a stout cord appeal to brute force, the stab of a knife, or the discharge of 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. whiskey and revenge being the stimulants thereto. 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