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Just a quick note:
The Overland Trails reference page and attached maps are very interesting in learning about the historic progression of the "American Cowboy" and were instrumental in creating the Capt Kirk Memoirs.
The Oregon Trail Map is a huge 10meg PDF file downloaded from US Library of Congress - will take a while to download..... but detail is amazing and worth the wait. Zooming in to 75% shows quality of 1843 original.
The other maps are from Nataional Park Service and also very helpful in understanding the enormity of the westward expansion (very detailed with zoom).
The Cowboy Code:
Live each day with courage.
Take pride in your work.
Always finish what you start.
Do what has to be done.
Be tough, but fair.
When you make a promise, keep it.
Ride for the brand.
Talk less and say more.
A cowboy never betrays a trust. He never goes back on his word.
A cowboy always tells the truth.
A cowboy is kind and gentle to small children, old folks, and animals.
A cowboy is always helpful when someone is in trouble.
If you want to be respected, you must respect others. Show good manners in every way.
Only through hard work and study can you succeed. Don't be lazy.
God put the firewood there, but every man must gather and light it himself.
A man should make the most of what equipment he has.
"This government, of the people, by the people, and for the people," shall live always.
Always respect our flag and our country.
Interesting Cowoby History:
SASS Chronicle
LITTLE KNOWN FAMOUS PEOPLE, Way Out West
By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769
Dec 2011
James "Jim" Masterson was a fearless lawman involved in more shootouts than his more famous brother. Born in Canada in 1855, Jim moved Wichita, Kansas in 1870 with his bothers, Bat and Ed. By 1878 the brothers were in Dodge City. Jim was running a saloon. Ed served as Town Marshal. Bat was Sheriff of Ford County. When Ed was murdered by Jack Wagner, he was replaced by Charlie Bassett with Jim Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and James Earp as Deputies. When a cowboy named George Hoy shot up the Comique Variety Hall, Jim and Wyatt returned fire and killed him.
Masterson was promoted to Town Marshal in 1879, and for the next two years he made several hundred arrests at gunpoint and killed at least two law breakers. A new mayor was elected in 1881 and Jim lost his job. Two weeks later he had a run-in with A.J. Peacock, his saloon partner, who had hired Al Updegraph as bartender. Jim and Bat confronted Peacock and Updegraph. Gunfire broke out and Updegraph was killed. Jim then moved to Trinidad, Colorado and as Constable, he engaged in a stand up gunfight with John Allen.
In 1885 he was a sheriff in New Mexico and in 1889 took part in the Gray County Seat War in Kansas. As a Deputy US Marshal in 1893, Masterson took part in the gunfight at Inglles, Oklahoma against the Doolin gang and captured "Arkansas Tom" Jones single-handed. Jim died of consumption in 1895.
Jan 2012
Oliver Milton Lee was born in 1865 in Texas, but spent most of his life in New Mexico. During Lee's life and times he was a Deputy U.S. Marshal, a rancher, a gunman, and a state Senator. He was a crack shot with any weapon and an expert with a pistol in either hand. In 1884, he and his brother Perry bought a ranch in Dog Canyon (near present day Alamogordo, New Mexico) and founded the Circle Cross brand, which still exists. When Lee sold his ranch, his holdings had grown to over a million acres.
But growth wasn't easy on the western frontier. Owners of larger ranches tried to limit the growth of smaller ranchers. Squabbles led to gunfights, and Lee was involved in many of them. In 1895, Col. Albert Jennings Fountain, a large landowner, set off a range war when he swore out warrants for Oliver Lee, Jim Gilliland, Bill McNew, and 23 other small ranchers. The charge was cattle rustling. Weeks later, Fountain and his 8-year-old son disappeared. Oliver, Jim, and Bill were suspected of murder. They were chased and overtaken at Wildy Wells by Sheriff Pat Garrett. A gun battle broke out, and Deputy Kurt Kearney was killed before the posse withdrew. Lee knew he would never get to trial if he gave himself up to Garrett, so he didn't surrender until his good friend, George Curry, was appointed Sheriff of Otero County. Charges against McNew were dismissed. Lee and Gilliland were acquitted. None of the other ranchers were indicted. The bodies were never found.
Oliver Lee later held office in the New Mexico Senate, and continued operating the Circle Cross Ranch & Cattle Company. He died quietly in 1941, at age 76. He had nine children and seven grandchildren. Several descendants still live and ranch in New Mexico.
Feb 2012
John Pinckney "Pink" Calhoun Higgins was born in Georgia in 1848, but grew up in Texas. He learned to ride and shoot on the family ranch at Lampasas, and was among the first cowboys to join the earliest cattle drives from Texas to Kansas. As a frontier cowboy, he fought hostile Indians, hung horse thieves, and shot cattle rustlers.
In 1873, five Horrell brothers killed five Lampasas lawmen and hightailed it for New Mexico, where they robbed and killed another 15. The next year they were back. In 1876 Pink accused them of cattle rustling, which led to the "Horrell-Higgins Feud." In January 1877, Pink killed Merritt Horrell in a shootout at the Gem Saloon. His brothers swore vengeance. Two months later, Tom and Mart Horrell were ambushed and wounded. Higgins was a suspect.
In June the Horrells and several friends challenged Pink and four relatives in what is known as "The Lampasas Square Shoot Out." When the smoke cleared, two of Horrell's friends and one of Pink's relatives lay dead. In September, Pink caught a Horrell cowboy stealing cattle. The cowboy drew his gun, and Pink killed him. A year later, Tom and Mart were assassinated. Higgins was a suspect. The last Horrell left town. This effectively ended the feud.
While in Mexico in 1882, Pink killed a Mexican and made a running gunfight to the border. After 1885, Pink worked as a "Protection Man," which entailed participation in several gunfights and hangings. The last man Pink killed was in 1904, after an ongoing dispute. Higgins is believed to have killed fourteen men in his lifetime. Asked about this, he said, "I didn't kill all them men, but I got some that wasn't on the list, so I guess it just about evens up." Pink Higgins died of heart failure in 1914.
Jan 2014
PONY DIEHL was born Charles Ray at Rock Island, Illinois in 1848. During his lifetime, his name was linked to some of the most famous frontier characters in western history. He first appeared in 1870 New Mexico Territory as a member of the John Kinney gang. Along with Kinney, Jesse Evans, and Jim McDaniels, Diehl entered a Las Cruces saloon and started a fight with some US Cavalry soldiers. One soldier was killed in the fight and Kinney was injured. Pony and his friends carried Kinney outside, turned around, and shot through the saloon door and windows, killing two soldiers and wounding three more. In 1876, Diehl left Kinney and joined the band that Jesse Evans formed. The outlaws were involved in cattle rustling and armed robbery, and when the Lincoln County War started, they fought Billy the Kid and his Regulators. After the War, Diehl joined Curly Bill Brocius and Turkey Creek Jack Johnson on a cattle drive to Arizona Territory and ended up in Tombstone. There, he became friends with Ike and Billy Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, and Johnny Ringo. Diehl's name was linked to numerous Tombstone crimes including robberies, cattle rustling, horse thieving, the attempted murder of Virgil Earp and events following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. When gambler Mike O'Rourke killedDiehl's friend, Johnny Ringo, in 1882, Pony murdered O'Rourke. Diehl spent five years in prison and was killed in a gunfight in 1888.
Feb 2014
HASKAY-BAY-NAY-NTAYL (The Apache Kid) was born in 1860. He was captured by the Yuma Indians in 1866, rescued by the Army in 1876, and enlisted as a scout in the US Cavalry in 1881. In 1887, the Kid was in charge of scouts at the San Carlos post when a drinking party fight broke out in which the Kid's father, Togo-de-Chuz, was killed by a scout named Gon-Zizzie. The Kid's friends killed Gon-Zizzie, and the Kid killed Gon-Zizzie's brother. The scouts involved were confronted and ordered to surrender. A crowd gathered, shots rang out, and the Apache Kid and several others lit out.
The Kid was captured, was tried, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Two months later the death sentence was remanded to ten years in Alcatraz. The next year, the Apache Kid was set free. This enraged the public. New warrants were issued, and the Kid was on the lam again. He was caught, tried, and given seven years in Yuma Prison. Shortly afterward, he and four others overpowered three guards, killed two, and escaped. A monster snowstorm prevented pursuit. After that, there were many unconfirmed sightings and reports that linked the Apache Kid to numerous crimes, including murder, rape, and robbery. But for all practical purposes, he had vanished. No one knows what happened to "Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl," a name that means brave and tall and will come to a mysterious end.
Mar 2014
GEORGE "BITTERCREEK" NEWCOMB was born near Ft. Scott, Kansas in 1866 and began working as a cowboy at age twelve. In 1892, he drifted into the Oklahoma Territory and joined the Dalton Gang. After being called "too wild" by Bob Dalton, George and Bill Doolin started the Wild Bunch. Two months later, the Dalton Gang was wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas.
Bittercreek took a fancy to a fourteen-year old girl named Rose Dunn, who had four outlaw brothers. George and the brothers were buddies and stood shoulder to shoulder in several shootouts with lawmen. Then the Dunn boys became bounty hunters. Newcomb had a $5,000 dead or alive reward on his head, and when Bittercreek rode up to the Dunn ranch to see Rose on May 2, 1895, Bill Dunn and his three brothers were hiding in the house. When Bittercreek got off his horse, the four bounty hunters opened fire and Bittercreek Newcomb fell dead.
May 2014
DAN BOGAN was born in Alabama in 1860. He moved to Texas with his family when he was ten. In Texas, Bogan became a cowboy and joined a cattle drive to Kansas in 1882. When the drive reached Dodge City, the cowboys got drunk and started a gunfight. Marshal Jack Bridges killed one cowboy and ran the rest out of town.
Dan returned to Texas and fell in with a band of rustlers. Pat Garrett was hired to stop the thievery. In 1884, Pat's posse trapped the rustlers at their hideout. A firefight flared. One outlaw was killed and three lawmen were wounded. Dan Bogan escaped.
In 1886, Dan was running roughshod in Lusk, Wyoming. By then he had killed at least three men. Constable Charlie Gunn, a former Texas Ranger and noted gunfighter, would not be intimidated. Charlie had rebuked Dan several times and finally threatened to arrest him. Bogan hated Gunn, and when the lawman entered Waters Saloon on January 15, 1887, Brogan was waiting with his gun hidden behind his back. Dan's pistol flashed and Charlie fell, but drew his own six-gun before he hit the floor. Bogan then ran over and shot the Constable point blank in the head, killing him instantly. Bogan was arrested and charged with murder. In September, he was convicted and sentenced to hang. In October he escaped. Charlie Siringo took up the chase, which led him to Utah, New Mexico, Mexico, and New Orleans. Rumors had the fugitive in Argentina. But, the outlaw had vanished. The last word heard was that Dan Bogan was living under an assumed name and operating a small family ranch somewhere in Texas, in 1931.
June 2014
WILLIAM "TULSA JACK" BLAKE was an outlaw of the Western Frontier and member of the Wild Bunch. Tulsa Jack was a Kansas cowboy and drifted into Oklahoma Territory in the 1880s. In 1892 he met the outlaw, Bill Doolin, and joined the Wild Bunch, also called the Doolin-Dalton Gang. Blake took part in numerous bank holdups and train robberies, and was a key figure during the gang's shootout with US Marshals in Ingalls, Oklahoma in September 1893, during which three Deputy Marshals were killed. In 1895, a posse led by Deputy Marshal Will Banks surrounded Tulsa Jack at his hideout in Major County, Oklahoma and a fierce gunfight erupted. During the firefight that lasted over 45 minutes, Blake tied to escape, but was shot and killed by Banks. Tulsa Jack Blake's death marked the beginning of the end of Doolin's Wild Bunch.
July 2014
Alice "Poker Alice" Ivers was born in England in 1851. Her family moved to Virginia when she was ten, and Alice attended boarding school in Virginia. Nine years later she moved to Colorado Territory where she met and married
a gambler named Frank Duffield. Frank taught her how to play poker. When Duffield was killed in Leadville, Alice began playing poker seriously. She earned a living gambling at saloons in some of the wildest towns on the western frontier.
In Deadwood in 1888, Alice was dealing blackjack at Bedrock Tom's Saloon when she saved Warren Tubbs from a knife wielding drunk miner by threatening the attacker with her Colt .45. Soon afterward, Tubbs and Ivers were married.
They had seven children. The family settled to a quiet life in Sturgis. When Warren died of tuberculosis, Alice went back to the poker tables.
By the time Ivers had earned the name "Poker Alice," saloon owners liked the idea she was a respectable woman, even though she always carried her pistol and smoked cigars. As her reputation grew, so did her income. She would make as much as $6,000 in one night.
Poker Alice's third husband was George Huckert, who herded the sheep on her ranch. In 1910, Alice opened "Poker Palace" at Ft. Meade, SD, serving booze downstairs and prostitution upstairs. In 1913, the year Huckert died, Poker Alice shot one unruly soldier customer dead and wounded another. She was acquitted. In her sixties, she was accused of being a madam, a gambler, a bootlegger, and for drunkenness. She retired in 1928 and died in 1930 at the age of 79.
Aug 2014
JACK BRIDGES was born in Maine in 1834. He moved to Kansas when he was 20 years old and served as a Cowtown lawman for the next 15 years. In 1869, Bridges became a US Deputy Marshal stationed at hays city, Kansas. Jack and legendary lawman Ben Williams worked to enforce the law and maintain peace between white settlers and hostile Indian tribes.
In 1871, Bridges was instructed to arrest the notorious killer J.E.B. Ledford. With a posse of two dozen armed men, Bridges surrounded the hotel where Ledford lived. The killer came out with both guns blazing. The marshal was wounded, but the outlaw went down dead in a hail of bullets. When Jack healed, he headed for Dodge City, Kansas, where he was appointed city marshal. As peace officer of Dodge City, Bridges was involved in countless gunfights and fist fights with tough cowboys and deadly gunfighters, but refused to take sides in the fight between Wyatt Earp's Dodge City peace commission and Alonzo Webster's Dodge City administrators. When Bill Tilghman took over as city marshal in 1884, Bridges left town. He settled down in Barstow, Texas, where he died in 1915.
Sept 2014
WILLIAM "BLACK JACK" CHRISTIAN was born in 1860 in Oklahoma. The first reports of Black Jack's outlaw activity was in the late 1880s when he and his brother Bob organized the "High Fives Gang" operating mostly in New Mexico Territory. William became known as Black Jack because to his tendency to have a short temper. In Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1895, the
Christian brothers shot and killed a lawman and were arrested, but escaped.
The gang fled to Arizona Territory and robbed the "International Bank" in Nogales. During their escape, gang member Jess Williams was shot and wounded, causing him to drop the money taken in the robbery. All the gang members escaped, but without the loot. Sheriff Bob Leatherwood of Tucson, Arizona led a posse in pursuit and surrounded the gang at Skeleton Canyon. A firefight ensued in which Deputy Frank Robson was shot and killed. Black Jack and his gang again escaped and fled south of the border into Mexico. In 1897, the gang was back in Arizona holding up stagecoaches. A posse soon found their canyon hideout. The entire Black Jack Christian gang was killed in the shootout that followed and their bodies were placed on public display. To this day, their canyon hideout is known as Black Jack Canyon.
Oct 2014
JOHN "HAPPY JACK" MORCO was a dangerous pistol man and a corrupt lawman. Morco was born in New york and went west in 1866. He traveled first to California and it is said he killed as many as twelve men in gunfights during the next four years. In 1870, he moved on to Ellsworth, Kansas when the frontier cattle town was the West's wildest. Town Constable Will Semans had been killed the year before, leaving only deputy County Sheriff Chauncey Whitney to keep peace in the entire county. The town was in desperate need for law and order. Morco was hired as town Policeman.
In 1873, gambler Billy Thompson and his famous gunfighter brother, Ben, arrived in Ellsworth. By this time Whitney had taken over as County Sheriff and he and the Thompson brothers became fast friends. One day Ben Thompson tried to collect a debt from John Sterling and John Morco. Knowing Ben was unarmed, Sterling slapped him and Morco pulled a pistol. Thompson got a gun, was joined by Billy, and went to meet Morco and Sterling. Sheriff Whitney interceded, and the three confronted Morco and Sterling. Suddenly Billy's shotgun discharged, shooting Sheriff Whitney. Before Whitney died the next day he testified that the shooting was an accident. Billy was tried and acquitted. But due to his inappropriate involvement in the whole affair, the Town Council fired Morco and appointed J.C. "Charlie" Brown to take his place. A few months later, Morco started a quarrel with a Texas cowboy in front of lizzie Palmer's dancehall. When Brown intervened, Morco and Brown both reached for their guns. "Charlie" Brown was faster and shot 'Happy Jack" twice, in the head and in the heart, killing him instantly.
Nov 2014
Archibald "little Archie" Clement was born in Missouri in 1846. he joined Bloody Bill Anderson's Confederate guerillas in 1861 and quickly took a leading role in the gang's military operations, becoming a lieutenant at the age of 17. Although he stood just five feet tall, little Archie feared nothing and was an expert pistol shot with either hand. he participated in the Lawrence, Kansas raid where the raiders killed more than 100 men and burned down the town. he was also present at the Centralia, Missouri massacre and helped kill 23 unarmed union soldiers in cold blood. When union forces killed
"Bloody Bill" in October, 1864, little Archie took command. When the War Between the States ended, Clements joined the group of renegades that would later become the James-younger gang.
in February 1866, little Archie led the outlaws in the first u.s. daylight bank robbery at liberty, Missouri, killing an innocent 14-year-old boy. in October of that year, the daring desperadoes robbed another bank at Lexington, Missouri.
Archibald "little Archie" Clements was killed in the firefight that ensured when the Missouri state militia ambushed the bandit band at Lexington in December 1866. He is buried in Wellington, Missouri
Dec 2014
The gunfight at Tascosa, Texas is little known today, but at the time it was more famous than the Gunfight at the
OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. In the spring of 1884, pat Garrett was hired by the big ranchers to organize a company of Texas Rangers to put a stop to cattle rustling in the Texas panhandle. Garrett set up headquarters at the LS Ranch. By 1885 pat's "LS Ranch's Home Rangers" had cleared the area of the rustlers known as "The System" and the Rangers were disbanded. Some of Garrett's men continued to work for the LS Ranch and their hard drinking ways aroused local resentment. Ex-LS Ranger Ed King was especially quarrelsome and quick to draw his gun. Tempers flared when Sally Emory dumped her boyfriend Lem Woodruff, ex-System man and Jenkins Saloon bartender, and took up with Ed King. On a mild March day in 1886, Ed King and three ex-LS Rangers, Frank Valley, John Lang and Fred Chilton, rode into the town of Tascosa, Texas to attend a local dance. After the dance they headed for the Equity bar. Someone in the cantina hailed King as they passed Jenkins Saloon.
As King stepped onto the porch, Lem Woodruff rushed out and shot King in the face. King died immediately. The three remaining LS ranch hands rushed around back of the Jenkins Saloon just as Woodruff, Louis Bosman, Charley & Tom Emory, Jesse Sheets and the Catfish Kid were exiting from the back door. Six-guns flashed. Woodruff and Charley Emory went down first. Frank Valley was shot in the head. Chilton shot Jesse Sheets and he fell dead. Chilton was shot in the chest. Dying, he handed his gun to Lang. Lang ran from the fight and met Sheriff Jim East and his deputy. The men went back to the Jenkins Saloon. The Catfish Kid ran from the scene unhurt. The fight left John Lang without a scratch. His three friends and Jesse Sheets lay dead or dying. Lem Woodruff, Charley Emory and the Catfish Kid survived to fight another day.
Feb 2015
ARKANSAS TOM JONES was born Roy Daugherty in Missouri on January 1, 1870. The Daugherty family was a staunchly religious family. His two brothers became preachers, but Roy rebelled. He left Missouri for Oklahoma Territory when he was 14 years old and changed his name to "Arkansas Tom Jones." Roy worked as a cowboy until 1892, when he joined Bill Doolin's Wild Bunch Gang and was involved in several robberies. He killed Marshal Thomas Hueston at the 1893 Battle of Ingalls in Ingalls, Oklahoma. Roy was captured later by Marshal Jim Masterson and sentenced to 50 years but was paroled in 1910. Dougherty tried to go straight but was sent back to prison in 1917 after robbing a bank at Neosho, Missouri. Released in 1921, Roy robbed another bank in Asbury, Missouri and remained on the run until he was killed in a gunfight with lawmen on August 16, 1924 in Joplin, Missouri.
Mar 2015
BILL PICKETT was born near Taylor, Texas in 1870. He was the second child of five boys and eight girls born to a former slave father and a Cherokee mother. Bill left school in the fifth grade to become a ranch hand, and at age 20 he married Maggie Turner. Maggie was a former slave and daughter of a white southern plantation owner. The couple had nine children. Pickett invented Bulldogging, the technique of grab bing a steer by the horns and wrestling it to the ground.
His method for bulldogging was biting a steer on the lip and then falling backwards. Bill soon became known for his cowboy stunts at local county carnivals. With his four brothers, he established The Pickett Brothers Bronco Busters and Rough Riders Association.
The name Bill Pickett soon became synonymous with successful rodeos traveling throughout Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. In 1905, Pickett joined the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and toured around the world with Buffalo Bill, Tom Mix, Will Rogers, Bee Ho Gray and other famous personalities. Pickett also appeared in early motion pictures, such as The Bulldogger and The Crimson Skull. Bill Pickett was killed when he was kicked in the head by a wild bronco in 1932.
He was inducted into the National Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1971.
Apr 2015
John Harrison Younger was born in Missouri in 1851, the youngest brother of Cole, Jim and Bob Younger. In 1862, his father was shot and killed by a detachment of Union militiamen. As a result of this killing, Cole and Jim joined Quantrill's Raiders, but John and Bob were too young to join. In 1866, Bob and John took their mother to Independence to buy supplies, where an ex-soldier named Gillcreas made some deprecatory comments about Cole riding with Quantrill. John shot him right between the eyes. The Youngers left for Texas. When their mother became very ill, John, Jim and Bob took her back to Missouri, where they were repeatedly hassled by Yankee sympathizers. Bob was beaten and John was hanged by a mob but survived.
After the mother died, the boys moved often between Missouri and Texas. In 1871 John shot and killed two Texas Deputy Sheriffs. In 1873 John, Jim and Bob joined the James-Younger Gang. In 1874 John and Jim were riding to see friends. Deputy Sheriff Edward Daniels and two Pinkerton Detectives approached them. The Youngers pulled their pistols and fired. One Pinkerton was hit but shot John before he died. Jim killed Deputy Daniels. The other Pinkerton fled and John chased him and shot him dead. As John rode back, he swayed in the saddle and fell off his horse, dead before he hit the ground. Jim buried John by the roadside. Jim later removed John's body and re-buried him at Yeater-Cleveland
Cemetery in St. Clair County, Missouri.
May 2015
Henry Ossian Flipper was born to slaves Isabella and Festus Flipper at Thomasville, Georgia in 1856. In 1873, Henry was the fifth African-American to receive an appointment to West Point and the first black to graduate in 1877. Upon graduation, he earned a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army and was the first non-white officer to lead the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. Lt. Flipper was posted at Forts Elliott, Sill, Davis and Concho during the Apache Wars and served with bravery and distinction throughout the Western United States. He led his troopers against hostile tribes in the Indian Territory and fought Apaches in Texas at Eagle Springs during the Victorio Campaign. In 1881, Flipper was falsely accused of embezzling federal funds. He was charged, court-martialed and discharged, thus ending his military career. As a civilian, Flipper was first employed by the U.S. Government as a special agent surveying western land claims. From 1901 to 1912 he worked as a mining engineer throughout Mexico and Latin America. He returned to Texas during the Mexican Revolution, and supplied the U.S. Senate with information on internal Mexican affairs.
In 1923, after serving as assistant secretary of the interior under President Harding, he took a position as an engineer with a Venezuelan petroleum company. He retired and returned to Atlanta in 1931. Henry Flipper died in 1940. In 1994 his descendants applied to the U.S. military for a review of Flipper's court martial and found that the conviction and punishment were "unduly harsh and unjust." It was recommended that Flipper's dismissal be changed to a good conduct discharge. Application for pardon was filed with the Secretary of the Army and President Clinton pardoned Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper on February 19, 1999
Jun 2015
Dangerous Dan Tucker was a lawman and gunfighter. Born in Canada in 1849, Dan drifted into Colorado Territory in 1872, where he killed a man in a knife fight. When he rode with the outlaw gang of John Kinney, he killed three men in El Paso, Texas and two men in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dan then showed up in Silver City, New Mexico in 1875. Famed New Mexico sheriff Harvey Whitehall took a liking to him and hired him as a deputy. In 1876, Tucker shot and killed a Mexican in a fight at Johnny Ward's Dance Hall. When a drunken man was reported throwing rocks at passing citizens, deputy Dan merely located the intoxicated man and shot him dead without muttering one word to the victim. In 1878, Dan was wounded in a shootout with a cowpuncher, but killed the cowboy in the firefight. In another gunfight, he killed two horse thieves and wounded one. In 1880, Dan tracked two robbers for two days. When he returned, he had no prisoners. But he did have all the stolen goods and the horses, saddles and weapons of the two outlaws. One day Dan responded to a domestic dispute and settled it by killing the husband. In 1881, deputy Dan shot and killed rustler Jake Bond. Later, he was summoned to Deming, New Mexico. Outlaws had taken over the town. Within three days, Dangerous Dan shot and killed three men and wounded two more. In 1882, Tucker was ambushed as he entered a brothel in Deming to investigate a complaint. He was wounded but he shot and killed the assassin and a prostitute accomplice. In 1883, Tucker was part of a posse in pursuit of a gang of train robbers. The posse engaged the bandits in a shootout near Silver City. Two gang members and a posse member, Joe Le Fur, were killed. The other desperadoes were hanged on the spot. Tucker resigned his position in 1888 and moved on to California. Where or when he died remains unknown. Little known now, Dangerous Dan Tucker is considered by some historians to have been one of the most famous gunmen in the Old West.
July 2015
Mart Duggan was born in Ireland in 1848. He immigrated to New York City with his parents in 1855 and headed west in 1865. Duggan drifted through Colorado mining camps for the next ten years and in 1876 took a job as a bouncer in a Georgetown saloon. In no time, a town bully challenged the bouncer to a standup gunfight. Mart met the man in the street and shot him dead. When Duggan arrived at Leadville in 1878, the first town marshal had been beaten and run out of town and his replacement had been shot and killed. Mart Duggan was picked to fill the vacant position. He immediately began firing disloyal deputies and hiring help he could trust. He killed three men in saloon gunfights during this period. Duggan was dismissed as marshal after a drinking binge in 1879, but was quickly reinstated when the mayor realized no one else could keep the rowdy town under control. In March, Bill and Jim Bush became involved in a dispute with Mortimer Arbuckle. Jim Bush shot Arbuckle, killing him. Arbuckle was unarmed. A mob formed, intent on hanging Bill Bush.
Duggan backed down the mob and arrested Jim Bush. Duggan quit the marshal's position in Leadville in April and moved to Flint, Michigan. Pat Kelly replaced him, but Kelly lacked Duggan's courage and Leadville reverted to its former rowdy ways. The council fired Kelly and sent for Duggan who arrested all those causing problems, including gunman Billy Thompson, brother of pistolman Ben Thompson. In 1880, Duggan refused reappointment and opened a livery stable. After he shot and killed Louis Lamb, Mart moved to Douglass City. In 1887, he returned to Leadville as a patrolman. He began to drink heavily and was involved in several disputes. In 1888, in a dispute with Bailey Youngston and Bill Gordon, he invited the two men to step out of the Texas House for a shootout. They refused. When Duggan left the saloon around 4:00 a.m., someone slipped up behind him and shot him in the back of the head. When asked who shot him, he replied, "I'll die before I tell you." Duggan died at 11:00 a.m., the murderer never known.
Aug 2015
Milton J. Yarberry was born John Armstrong in 1849 in Arkansas. After killing a man in 1869, he left his original family and changed his name to Yarberry. In 1873, he killed another man and beat a hasty retreat to Missouri, where he rode with outlaw gunmen Dave Rudabaugh and "Mysterious" Dave Mather. In 1875 Yarberry settled in Texarkana,
Arkansas but soon killed a bounty hunter and turned tail for Texas to join the Texas Rangers. In 1876 Milton quit the Rangers and opened a saloon in Decatur, Texas. When another busybody bounty hunter showed up, Yarberry shot him dead and left Texas. He headed for Canon City, Colorado, opening a saloon there with partner Tony Preston. In 1879 he sold out to Preston and started a brothel in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Again, Yarberry was forced to sell out after killing a man over a prostitute. He moved to San Marciel, New Mexico, the town in which Tony Preston had recently settled. He promptly started an affair with Preston's wife Sadie. When Yarberry left for Albuquerque to become the town's first town marshal in 1880, Sadie and her fouryear-old daughter went with him. Within days, the new marshal had killed two more men to establish himself as one of the most dangerous gunmen in the West.
Gunman Harry Brown drifted into town in 1881. Soon he and Sadie became romantically involved. The couple was having dinner at Gerard's Cafe when Yarberry appeared. Brown met him outside and the two began arguing. Brown hit Yarberry and pulled his pistol. He fired once and missed. The marshal fired and didn't miss. He shot Brown twice in the chest, killing him instantly. Yarberry was acquitted on grounds of self-defense. Three weeks later, Yarberry killed again. While responding to a shooting incident at the Greenleaf Cafe, Yarberry shot and killed Charlie Campbell, the man he thought was responsible.
Yarberry was arrested and tried for murder. At a time when New Mexico news stories of Billy the Kid's outrageous exploits were rampant, the jury found Yarberry guilty and, to set an example, sentenced him to hang. On February 9, 1883, Yarberry was marched to the Gallows. More than 1,500 people watched the hanging. As Sheriff Perfecto Armijo
pulled the lever, Yarberry proclaimed, "Gentlemen, you are hanging an innocent man."
Sept 20015
Captain George Washington Arrington was a Confederate Guerrilla, Texas Ranger, sheriff and rancher. He was born John C. Orrick, Jr., in Alabama, in 1844 to John and Mariah (Arrington) Orrick. John's father died when he was four. At the age of sixteen, John enlisted in the Confederate Army and rode with Mosby's guerrillas. After murdering a black businessman in 1867, he spent three years in Central America before moving to Texas. It was then that he adopted the name George Washington Arrington to break with his troubled past. Arrington worked for the railroad in Houston and later at a commission house in Galveston.
In 1875, George enlisted in Company E of the Frontier Battalion of Texas Rangers. He was promoted from sergeant to first lieutenant in 1877 because of his success in tracking down fugitives and outlaws in the Rio Grande Valley. The following year he was made captain and ordered to Fort Griffin to restore peace in the wake of uncontrolled vigilante action. In 1879 Arrington's company was moved to the Panhandle to investigate widespread depredations at area ranches. To stop the plundering and robbery he established Camp Roberts, the first Ranger Camp in the Panhandle. From there he led his men to chart the area from Yellow House Canyon to Ranger Lake in eastern New Mexico.
His troop also located uncharted watering places and secret Apache hideouts. It was at this time he received the nickname Cap. Cap resigned from the Rangers in 1882 to take advantage of local ranching opportunities.
After helping area ranchers break up a ruthless rustling ring, he was elected Sheriff of Wheeler County. In 1883 he met Sarah Burnette. They were married that same year and raised a family of two sons and six daughters. During Arrington's years as sheriff, his reputation as the "iron-handed man of the Panhandle" increased with his fatal shooting in 1886 of John Leverton, a suspected cattle rustler. Murder charges were filed against the sheriff but he was acquitted. Cap served as County Sheriff until 1890. During his service he filed on Washita River ranch land in Hemphill County and registered his CAP brand. In 1893 he was appointed manager of the Rocking Chair Ranch by its British owners. He remained manager until 1896, when the Rocking Chair was sold to the Continental Land and Cattle Company. George Washington Cap Arrington died of a heart attack in 1923 and is buried at Mobeetie.
Oct 2015
BOONE HELM was known as the Kentucky Cannibal. Born in 1828, Boone was a gunfighter, a mountain man and a serial killer who earned his nickname for his unrepentant proclivity for the consumption of human flesh. He was born in Kentucky into an honest, hard-working family who moved to Missouri when Boone was still a boy. Helm married 17-year-old Lucinda Browning in 1848 and soon gained a reputation for heavy drinking, riding his horse into the house, and beating his wife. Lucinda petitioned for divorce.
Helm decided to head for the California Gold Fields and his cousin Littlebury Shoot agreed to accompany him. But when his cousin decided to not go West, Helm stabbed him in the chest, killing him instantly. Boone then headed for California alone. On the way, he murdered several men in various altercations. When he reached Montana he teamed up with half a dozen men with whom he confided that he had eaten a few of his murder victims. "Many's the poor devil I've killed, at one time or another, and the time has been that I've been obliged to feed on some of 'em." Helm and his party was attacked by Indians in Idaho and forced to flee into the wilderness. Their journey was arduous, winnowing the party down to two… Helm and a man named Burton. When Burton could go no further he took his own life. Helm ate one of Burton's legs and wrapped the other to take with him to Salt Lake City, Utah. When Boone became wanted by the law in Utah, he fled to San Francisco, California where he killed a rancher before heading for Oregon. In Oregon, he resumed robbing people for a living, frequently murdering them. In 1862 Helm gunned down unarmed Dutch Fred and fled. While on the run, Helm ate another fugitive who had been accompanying him to Texas. Helm soon reappeared at many settlements throughout the West, killing more men as he went. After teaming up with the notorious Henry Plummer and his gang, the killer was finally captured in Montana. The Montana Vigilantes hanged Helm and gang-member Three fingered Jack Gallager in Virginia City in 1864. On seeing his friend Gallager hanged, Boone said, "Kick away old fellow. My turn next. I'll see you in Hell in a minute."
Nov 2015
Indian trader William Becknell is the Father of the Santa Fe Trail. He was the first trader to arrive in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ten years after the Spanish had closed their Southwest holdings to foreigners for fear of American domination of the region. During this decade, the Spanish confiscated the goods of any trader who violated their directive and put the trespasser in prison. However, many purveyors continued to trade with the Indian Tribes on the American-controlled eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Becknell was one of those traders. While on such a trading mission in 1821, he met a Mexican soldier who informed him that Mexico had recently won its independence from Spain, and the region was no longer out of bounds to American traders.
The American Trader immediately set out for Santa Fe, where he quickly sold all his goods at an enormous profit. When he returned to his base in Franklin, Missouri, his saddlebags were heavy with Mexican silver. The next summer, Becknell traveled to Santa Fe again, this time with three wagonloads of goods. But instead of following the old risky route over
a high pass, he blazed a shorter cutoff trail across the Cimarron Desert. Becknell's role in reopening the Santa Fe Trail and laying out the shortcut earned him the title, "Father of the Santa Fe Trail." Becknell's trail was destined to become one of the most important of Old West trading routes. Travelers continued to follow the Santa Fe Trail until trains took over in 1872.
Dec 2015
California Joe was born Moses Embree Milner in 1829 at Stanford, Kentucky. Joe served as a teamster with General Kearney during the Mexican War then headed west with a team of trappers and was captured by Ute Indians. He was soon rescued and headed for the gold fields of California to try his luck in striking it rich. No such luck. So he next established a trade route and ran mule trains from Oregon to mining camps at Walla Walla, Washington. When gold was discovered in Montana, Joe lit out for Bannack to try his luck again. Three swindlers tried to steal his claim. He killed one and wounded another. The third one was lucky. He got away. Joe earned his nickname in Virginia City, Montana when he killed two men in a saloon fight. He left town in a hurry when vigilantes threatened to hang him. Joe spent the next two years in New Mexico, Nevada and Texas. In 1864, he fought shoulder to shoulder with Kit Carson at the Battle of Adobe Walls. Two years later, he was named Chief Scout for General George Custer and in 1874 served under him in the Black Hills expedition. Later, Milner was with General George Crook when his army chased Sitting Bull after his Sioux defeated Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1876, Joe was in a Nebraska saloon. A disagreement with a pistolman named Newcomb led to high tempers. Guns flashed and Joe was shot and killed. Two years later, Wild West justice triumphed. Newcomb was shot in the back by a friend of California Joe.
Jan 2016
Little Bill" Standifer was born in Burnet County and raised in Lampasas County, Texas. At the age of 14, while working as a cowboy, he came across four men rustling cattle and was pistol whipped by the men and badly hurt. He tracked down all four men and killed them one by one. He was tried and acquitted. In 1879, Little Bill was working as a cowboy on the Mullins Ranch when John McMahon, from another ranch, tried to drive his cattle across a pasture where Standifer was holding Mullins' cattle. Standifer stopped him. McMahon produced a bullwhip and began whipping Standifer. Both were mounted and Little Bill rode away. Days later, Standifer tracked McMahon to a cattle camp and killed him.
Little Bill fled to Marfa, Texas where he shot three soldiers before fleeing. In early 1880, Standifer was working as a Range Detective and is known to have shot and killed several cattle rustlers. He was elected Sheriff for Crosby County in 1888. In 1891, he and Deputy Charlie Quillen pursued three thieves and captured them in New Mexico. On their return to Texas the outlaws attempted to escape. Quillen was shot but was able to overpower the prisoner. Another outlaw seized a shotgun but when it misfired, Standifer beat the desperado into submission. Quillen survived and the two were able to take their prisoners back to Texas.
In 1893 Little Bill began working again as a Range Detective and quickly gained a reputation for being an excellent tracker. While tracking rustlers in Clairemont, a rough town in which the brother to Wes Hardin had been killed, Standifer located a rustler named Bob Kiggins. In the gunfight that followed Standifer killed Kiggins.
Standifer first met the pistolman John "Pink" Higgins (The Cowboy Chronicle, February 2015) when they both worked as Range Detectives for the Spur Ranch. An animosity between Little Bill and Pink developed and both men were fired. However, the animosity continued. In 1900, Standifer was elected Sheriff of Hartley County. On a morning in 1903, Standifer rode out to the Higgins ranch. Higgins rode out to meet him. Little Bill fired first, hitting Pink's horse. Higgins' initial shot was wide, but in the shooting exchange that followed, he shot and killed Standifer. Higgins' horse also died.
When Higgins told the Sheriff he believed he had killed Standifer, the Sheriff stated, "Well if you're not sure, you'd better go and finish the job." Higgins was never arrested or tried. He buried Standifer on the Higgins property and named the site "Standifer's Thicket."
Feb 2016
Bigfoot Wallace was a six-foot-two-inch, 250-pound, fearless Texas Ranger. He was born William A.A. Wallace at Lexington, Kentucky in 1817. When he was 19 years old, he set out for Texas to "take pay out of the Mexicans" for shooting down his brother and first cousin at the Goliad massacre. He joined the newly formed Texas Rangers and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Captain Jack Hays and Rangers Ben McCulloch and Sam Walker to free Texas from the Mexicans and Comanche Indians.
It took Bigfoot more than forty years of fighting in campaigns such as the Battle of Salado Creek, the Battle of Hondo River, the Battle of Mier, the Black Bean Incident and the Battle of Monterrey to finally square the account. In the early 1850s, Wallace commanded his own Ranger Company, fighting Mexican border bandits and Comanche Indians who were raiding ranches and killing men, women and children on the Texas frontier. Bigfoot drove a mail wagon from San Antonio to El Paso in the late 1850s. His mules were stolen by Comanches.
On one trip. Wallace walked back to El Paso. On the way, he stopped at the first Mexican ranch he passed and ate 27 eggs before arriving in town for a full meal. During the War Between the States he and his Rangers guarded the Texas frontier against the still hostile Comanche tribes. Wallace never married and spent his later years in South Texas near the village of Bigfoot. He died on January 7, 1899. He is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
Mar 2016
In all the criminal lore of the country there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation and thirst for crime. Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday school teacher. —Seattle Daily Times, 1902
Harry Tracy's real name was Harry Severns. He was born in 1875. By the time he reached the age of 21 he was running with Butch Cassidy's Hole In The Wall Gang, actively participating in acts of robbery and murder. In 1898, Tracy and three gang members got into a gunfight with the law at Brown's Park, Colorado. The three outlaws and posse man
Valentine Hoy were killed. Tracy was captured but escaped from the Aspen Colorado Jail three months later. He was captured again in 1901 and sentenced to a term in the Oregon State Penitentiary. Tracy and fellow convict Dave Merrill broke out in June of 1902. In the shootout, they shot and killed officers Thurston Jones, Bailey Tiffany, Frank Ferrell and three civilians.
On June 28 Harry killed Dave Merrill. A week later he killed detective Charlie Raymond and deputy John Williams in a shootout near Bothell, Washington. The killer fled and later holed up in a house with several hostages. When law enforcement officers responded, he killed posse members Cornelious Rowley and Enoch Breece in the shootout that preceded his escape. The law cornered Harry in Creston, Washington on August 6, 1902. Tracy was surrounded and seriously wounded in the gunfight that followed. Harry Tracy committed suicide to avoid capture.
May 2016
GEORGE SCARBOROUGH was a cowboy, gunfighter and lawman. He was born in Louisiana on October 2, 1859. The Scarborough family moved to Texas when George was a teenager and he worked as a cowboy until appointed sheriff of Jones County in 1885. Scarborough earned a reputation as a gunfighter when he became a Deputy U.S. Marshal at El Paso, Texas in the 1890s. He shot and killed a tough Texan named Martin McRose and two years later he gunned down Constable John Selman. Scarborough claimed both men drew their guns first, but no gun was found on Selman's body. Because a local thief claimed to have stolen Selman's gun after the gunfight, the Scarborough was acquitted.
Scarborough had been feuding with Selman ever since the constable shot and killed Bass Outlaw. Bass Outlaw was a good friend to George Scarborough. Prior to being shot by Constable Selman, Outlaw had killed a Texas Ranger named McKirdict, so the Constable was acquitted. Scarborough was also well known as an expert tracker when chasing outlaws.
He and El Paso Police Chief Jeff Milton tracked Bronco Bill Walter and his gang of cutthroats to their hideout in Solomonville, Arizona.
Bronco Bill was captured, one gang member was killed and the rest of the renegades scattered. Later that year, the two lawmen caught up to Burt Alvord and his band of desperados in Fairbank, Arizona. In the gunfight that followed, Jeff Milton was wounded and gang members Three Fingers Jack Dunlop and Bravo Juan Yaos were killed. Burt Alvord was captured. Scarborough then moved on to New Mexico, where he was employed as a hired gunman for the Grant County Cattlemen's Association. While there, he participated in the capture of stagecoach bandits Pearl Hart and Joe Boot.
In 1900, Scarborough was in a shootout with George Stevenson and Jim Brooks. He killed Brooks and wounded Stevenson but was shot in the leg in the fight. His leg was amputated and George Scarborough died four days later.
Jun 2016
JOHN JOSHUA WEBB was a noted Lawman, gunfighter and outlaw. Webb was born in 1847 in Keokuk County, Iowa. He was the seventh of twelve children born to Bill Webb and Innocent Blue Brown. The Webb family moved to Nebraska in 1862. In 1871, John drifted to Dodge City, Kansas where he met Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. When Bat Masterson was appointed sheriff of Ford County, he deputized Webb, along with Kinch Riley and "Prairie Dog" Morrow, to track down "Dirty Dave" Rudabaugh and his band of train robbers. The deputies soon captured the outlaws and Rudabaugh squealed on his compadres. His sidekicks ent to prison and Dirty Dave went free. In 1878, Webb was picked to serve as an Army scout to help Bill Tilghman fight hostile Cheyenne Indians in Kansas.
After they settled the local Indian uprising, Webb was hired by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to fight in the Royal Gorge, Colorado Railroad War. He moved on from there to Las Vegas, New Mexico to partner in a saloon with Doc Holliday. One day a gambler named Mike Gordon assaulted one of Doc's dance hall girls. Doc intervened and Mike stormed out of the saloon. Doc followed him out. Gordon shot at Doc and missed. Before Mike could fire again, Doc shot him dead. In 1880, Webb was appointed town marshal of Las Vegas and became a member of the Dodge City Gang. Justice of the Peace Hoodoo Brown led the Gang, whose members included gunfighter Dave Mather, "Slap Jack Bill" Nicholson, "Bull Shit Jack" Pierce, "Frank" Cady and Dirty Dave Rudabaugh.
The gang committed acts of thievery and Webb covered the outlaws' tracks. When Webb entered the Goolet & Roberts Saloon and ordered freighter Michael Killiher, who was allegedly carrying a large amount of cash, to hand over his pistols, Killiher refused. Webb drew his own pistol, shot Killiher twice in the head, killing him instantly, and retrieved the cash. Webb was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. The next week Dirty Dave Rudabaugh burst into the jail in an attempt to free Webb, but the jailbreak was not successful.
Rudabaugh was later arrested while riding with Billy the Kid. When Webb's sentence was appealed and commuted to life in prison, he and Rudabaugh found themselves serving time in the same jail. In 1881, they escaped and fled to Mexico. Rudabaugh was soon killed in Mexico and Webb drifted back to Texas. John Joshua Webb ended up in Arkansas where he died of smallpox in 1882.
Aug 2016
John Coffee "Jack" Hays was born at Little Cedar Lick in Tennessee on January 28, 1817. His uncle was Andrew Jackson. His grandfather fought in the revolutionary war. His father fought in the war of 1812. Jack moved to the Republic of Texas at the age of 19 and was appointed a member of the Texas Rangers by Sam Houston. From 1836 until 1849, Hays led the Rangers on many hard-fought campaigns against the Comanche Indians. In 1840, Tonkawa Indian Chief Placido joined Hays and the Rangers in an endeavor to track down a massive Comanche War Party under the leadership of Chief Buffalo Hump. The war party had been on an extended killing raid that reached all the way from the ranches in West Texas to the cities on the Texas Coast. Hays' posse caught up with the Comanches at Plum Creek, which resulted in the "Battle of Plum Creek."
The Indian warriors had a huge herd of horses and an enormous amount of captured plunder. Hays mustered his troops. "Yonder are the Indians, boys. And yonder are our horses. The Indians are strong, but we can lick 'em. What do you say?" The Battle of Plum Creek was more of a running gunfight as the Comanches tried to hold on to their booty and get back to the safety of their camps on the Llano Estacado. In the end, the Indians did get away with their spoils and many of the stolen horses. In 1842, Hays commanded the force against the invasion from Mexico. He also fought in the Mexican-American War and commanded a regiment of Texas Rangers at the Battle of Monterrey. Jack married Susan Calvert at Sequin, Texas in 1847. Two years later he was appointed the US Indian Agent for the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. The following year, the married couple migrated to San Francisco County in California, where Jack was elected sheriff. Hays commanded a force of volunteer soldiers at the Second Battle of Pyramid Lake in 1860. John Coffee "Jack" Hays died in California on April 21, 1883. He is buried in Oakland, a city for which he was one of the founders.
Sep 2016
William "Billy" Dixon was born in West Virginia on September 25, 1850, of European and American Indian ancestry. By age 12, Billy was orphaned and went to live with an uncle in Missouri. Two years later, he was an ox driver and a muleskinner at Leavenworth, Kansas. At age 19, he joined a hunting and trapping venture at Fort Hays, Kansas. When the hunting group moved to the Texas Panhandle in 1874, Billy scouted as far south as the Salt Fork and the Red River.
The hunters explored the Texas Plains, where immense herds of buffalo roamed, and established Adobe Walls. The outpost was attacked in June by a band of about 1,000 Comanches.
On the third day, Dixon took aim with his Sharps rifle and killed an Indian warrior almost a mile away. It would go down in history as "The Shot of the Century" and effectively end the siege. In August 1874 Billy quit buffalo hunting to become an army scout. In September Dixon, another scout, and four troopers were surrounded by a large band of Kiowas and Comanches in Hemphill County. The detail took cover in a buffalo wallow and held the Indians off. After three days, the warriors broke off the fight. Every man in the detail was wounded and one trooper was killed. For this action, known as
The Battle of Buffalo Wallow, all the survivors were awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1883, Dixon moved to Adobe Walls and was postmaster for 20 years. He was state land commissioner, justice of the peace, and the first sheriff of Hutchinson County, Texas. Billy married Olive King in 1894 and they had seven children. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1906 and Billy died there in 1913. Billy Dixon is buried where he first became famous, at Adobe Walls.
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Nov 2016
William Sidney "Cap" Light was a Texas lawman. He was born in 1863 at Belton, Texas and at age 20 accepted a position as a deputy marshal in Belton. Cap was a member of the posse that tracked down and killed desperado Wild Bill Northcott in 1884. One day in 1889, a troublemaker named Sam Hasley was drunk and causing problems in town. Cap ordered Sam to go home, so Sam rode his horse up on the sidewalk, daring the young lawman to do something about it. Light attempted to arrest Hasley, but Hasley drew his six-shooter.
Sheriff Light pulled his own pistol and fired, killing Hasley instantly. A few weeks later, when deputy Light was escorting gunman Ed Cooley to prison, the prisoner tried to escape. Light shot Cooley dead. The next year, a gambler named Felix Moralas was drunk and causing trouble in the Cotton Exchange Saloon. Moralas was confronted by Light. Moralas reached for his gun. Light was faster. The gambler fell dead on the floor with his pistol in one hand and a beer in the other. Cap Light married Soapy Smith's sister, Katherine, in 1887. Soapy Smith was the boss of a criminal empire in Denver and Creede, Colorado. In 1891, Cap joined up with Soapy's gang and in 1892 he accepted the position of camp deputy marshal at the Creede camp. A Creede faro dealer named Reddy McCann had a killing history of his own.
McMann was drinking heavily one night and around 4:00 a.m. he was shooting out the streetlights on Main Street.
Marshal Light attempted to arrest McCann. Reddy resisted. The marshal slapped the faro dealer in the face. Both men drew their weapons and fired. McCann fell to the floor and his last words were "I'm killed." A jury found Light innocent, but Cap was so upset over the incident that he quit the Soapy Smith gang. Light then went to Temple, Texas. He applied for a position as a detective for the Santa Fe Railroad but was turned down. Cap blamed the railroad's chief detective, T. J. Coggins, for his job denial. One day he approached Coggins and struck him with his pistol barrel. Light was arrested and charged with assault. At the trial, Coggins pulled his pistol and fired several shots at Light's head. One bullet entered near Cap's right ear, and another just below the jaw. Light eventually recovered. Coggins was arrested for attempted murder but never brought to trial. While riding in a Kansas & Texas train car in 1893, Cap Light shot himself when he accidentally pulled the trigger of the revolver in his pocket. The bullet severed his femoral artery and he hemorrhaged to death within minutes. Cap Light was 30 years old.
Dec 2016
HENRY NEWTON BROWN was a gunman, a lawman, a cowboy and an outlaw during his short life. Born in 1857, he was orphaned as a boy and raised by his aunt and uncle in Rolla, Missouri. When he was 17 he left home and headed for Colorado, then migrated to Texas where he killed his first man in a stand-up gunfight.
Brown moved on to the New Mexico Territory in 1877 and joined John Tunstall's Regulators during the height of the
Lincoln County War. On April 1, 1878 Brown, with Regulators Billy the Kid, Jim French, Frank McNab, John Middleton, and Fred Waite ambushed and murdered Sheriff Bill Brady, the man responsible for Tunstall's death. Three days later, Brown and the Regulators shot and killed Grady's friend, Buckshot Roberts. In July of 1878, a sheriff's posse trapped the Regulators at Alexander McSween's home in the town of Lincoln, New Mexico. McSween was killed in the gunfight but
Henry, Billy the Kid and several other gang members escaped. A few months later, the same group trailed a herd of stolen horses to the Texas Panhandle. The boys sold the horses and returned to New Mexico. All except Brown, who stayed in Texas and became a lawman. But his quick temper soon got him fired. For the next several years Henry worked as a cowboy on ranches throughout the Oklahoma Territory. In 1882, he went to the wild cowtown of Caldwell,
Kansas where he was appointed city marshal. He hired Ben Wheeler, a former Texas outlaw, as his deputy and together they cleaned up the town. In appreciation for Henry's service, the city council gave him an engraved Winchester rifle.
Brown killed a gambler named Newt Boyce and a renegade Indian called Spotted Horse with the trophy rifle. By the time the marshal and his assistant were appointed to their third term, they were praised by the Caldwell citizens as the best lawmen the town ever had. In 1884, Brown, Wheeler and two Cherokee cowboys, Billy Smith and Jack Wesley, rode to Medicine Lodge, Kansas to rob the Medicine Valley Bank. Gunfire erupted and Brown shot the bank president, Wylie Payne.
Brown and the outlaws fled, were pursued by a posse, and forced to surrender. Incarcerated in the town's jail, the bank robbers anticipated a lynch mob. When the mob arrived and opened the cell door, Brown burst through the angry men. As he ran past, he was nearly torn in half by the double-barrel blast of a 12-gauge shotgun. He died immediately. Henry Brown was only 27 years old. Wheeler was brought down by a barrage of gunfire, but lived long enough to be hanged with Smith and Wesley
Jan 2017
Evett Dumas Nix was born in Kentucky on September 19, 1861. His uncle was a county sheriff and his father a deputy sheriff. In 1885 he married his childhood sweetheart, Ellen Felts. Nix went to Guthrie, Oklahoma as a businessman, during the Land Rush of 1891.
He had many influential friends, including rancher Oscar Halsell, who at that time employed Bill Doolin and members of the D o o l i n / D a l t o n Gang. Evett was appointed to the position of US Marshal in 1893 at age 32, the youngest to hold that position at the time. He took over during "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker's tenure, when the Doolin/Dalton Gang was robbing banks and trains in Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas. The renegades had a safe haven in Ingalls, Oklahoma and Marshal Nix's first priority was to organize a contingent to take out the outlaws in. Nix and Deputy Marshal John Hixon led a posse of fourteen Marshals to attack the gang. In the Battle of Ingalls, Deputy Marshals Hueston, Speed, and Shadley were killed. Outlaws Bittercreek Newcomb, Charley Pierce, and Dynamite Dan Clifton were wounded but escaped.
Arkansas Tom Jones was captured. Nix next organized an elite group of lawmen, which included Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman and Chris Madsen, to bring down the Doolin/Dalton Gang. By 1898 the entire band of bandits, except Arkansas Tom Jones who was still in jail, had been killed or brought to justice. After Arkansas Tom was released from prison, he returned to his outlaw ways and was killed by lawmen in 1924. Critics falsely accused Nix of misusing funds and he was dismissed from his position in 1896.
It is believed he merely used the fee system for payment of Deputy Marshals and was not guilty of the mismanagement charge. Following his dismissal he returned to Guthrie and resumed his life as a businessman. In 1929 he co-authored a book titled Oklahombres, detailing the work that wiped out the Doolin/Dalton and the Jennings Gangs. Evett Dumas Nix died on February 6, 1946.
Feb 2017
Laura Bullion was a female outlaw. She was born in 1873 or 1876 in either Texas or Arkansas or Kentucky, of a German mother and an outlaw Indian father. By the 1890s Laura Bullion was a member of the Butch Cassidy Wild Bunch gang and her compadres included the likes of Ben Kilpatrick, the Sundance Kid, Black Jack Ketchum, Wild Bill Carver, and Kid Curry.
Bullion's father had been a friend with outlaws Wild Bill Carver and Ben Kilpatrick, both of whom Laura met when she was 13 years old. At age 15 she became romantically involved with Carver and two years later with Kilpatrick. Members of the Wild Bunch nicknamed Laura "Della Rose." She was also referred to as the "Rose of the Wild Bunch." As the gang robbed trains, Laura supported them by selling stolen goods and making connections that could give the gang steady supplies and horses. Bullion also worked as a prostitute until reaching the age of 16 or 17. She returned to prostitution from time to time, working mostly in Madame Fannie Porter's brothel in San Antonio, Texas, a frequent hideaway for the Wild Bunch. Both Bullion and Kilpatrick were arrested in 1901 after they fled east to avoid the law following the Great Northern train robbery. An eastern newspaper article mentions the suspicion that, disguised as a boy, Laura might also have taken part in a Montana train robbery. The paper cites a city detective: "I would not think helping to hold up a train was too much for her. She is cool, shows absolutely no fear, and in male attire would readily pass for a boy."
Both Bullion and Kilpatrick were convicted, with Bullion being sentenced to five years in prison and Kilpatrick receiving a 20-year sentence. She served three and a half years before being released in 1905. Kilpatrick was not released from prison until 1911. Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1918. She supported herself as a householder and seamstress, a drapery maker, dressmaker, and interior designer.
She died of heart failure in 1961 and is buried at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. Kilpatrick was killed robbing a train on March 13, 1912.
Mar 2017
Joe Walker rode into the fur trade rendezvous on the Green River in Wyoming with an escort of half a dozen trappers and 370 Shoshone Indians. The Green River rendezvous of 1833 was wild and wooly. Tents and teepees stretched for more than 10 miles along the river and immense herds of horses grazed on the surrounding plains. Rowdy attendees engaged in wrestling matches, bragging contests, and roaring drunken brawls. But Walker was not wild and reckless.
He enjoyed Shoshone beauties and racing for money on fast horses. He spent the rendezvous planning and assembling an expedition. The Army had asked him to explore the region west from the Great Salt Lake to California. Walker left the rendezvous with 50 men and 140 horses. Riding west, they entered the vast deserts of the Great Basin where Paiute Indians stole from their camp.
Walker's men killed a couple of the thieves. The next day, 200 Paiute warriors surrounded the trappers. Using signs, Walker warned the Indians to disperse or be shot. The Paiutes laughed because they had never seen guns. The order was given to shoot and 39 Paiutes fell dead. When the party reached the Sierra Nevada Range the snow was halfway down the mountains. The food rations were exhausted and the men were reduced to eating roots and insects. They spent a month moving along the snow-covered crest of the mountain range, looking for a way down. On October 20, the trappers were on a mile-high cliff, looking down at the Yosemite Valley.
They were the first white men to see it. After five more days they found a steep trail descending the western slopes. A few days later they reached the Pacific Ocean. The Mexican Government offered Walker 30,000 acres of free California land if he would establish a colony of Americans. But the pathfinder refused and headed east to revive his old wandering ways. Walker went on to guide the first wagon trains to California and the first gold miners to Arizona. He bought Spanish horses from Mexican ranches at Los Angeles and sold them in Colorado, Wyoming, and Missouri. The trailblazer retired at a cousin's ranch in California and died peacefully at the age of 77. The inscription on his tombstone reads,
"Camped at Yosemite Nov. 13, 1833." Mountain men like Jim Bridges, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith are better known to us today, but in his day, Joe Walker was considered by his contemporaries to be the most famous mountain man of all.
Apr 2017
John "Portugee" Phillips was born Manual Felipe Cardoso in 1832 near the town of Terra on the island of Pico, in the Azores. At the age of 18, he left the Azores and headed for California to join the '49 Gold Rush. Phillips followed the lure of gold from California through Oregon and Idaho to Montana. In the summer of 1866 he was prospecting in the Big Horn Mountains when heavy winter snows forced him to seek shelter at Fort Phil Kearny.
That winter, the Second Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Captain William Fetterman, was stationed at the Fort. In December, a band of Cheyenne and Sioux, under the leadership of Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, lured Fetterman and 80 soldiers into an ambush outside the Fort, where 2,000 Indians attacked them. Fetterman and his entire command were wiped out. Following the defeat of Fetterman, Phillips volunteered to ride 190 miles in subzero weather to deliver official dispatches to Horseshoe Station. The first stop was Fort Reno, which Portugee reached on December 23.
There, he received additional messages to carry from Fort Reno to Fort Laramie. Phillips reached Horseshoe Station at 10:00 a.m. on December 25. The dispatches were wired to the headquarters of the Department of the Platte in Omaha and to Washington, DC. Phillips then went on to Fort Laramie to deliver the messages he had received at Fort Reno. Phillips was carrying mail back to Fort Phil Kearny from Fort Laramie in April 1867, when he found himself surrounded by sixteen Sioux warriors in war paint. The report he wrote of the incident read "without aid of my faithful horse and good revolver, I would have lost my hair, the part of my body I feel most anxious about on the prairies." Portugee continued to work as a mail courier until he moved to Elk Mountain, where he supplied ties to the railroad in addition to furnishing the army with goods and transportation at Fort Laramie and Fort Fetterman. In 1870, he married Hattie Buck and the couple established a ranch on Chugwater Creek. During a visit to Milwaukee in 1876, Phillips attended a parade in honor of General Ulysses S. Grant, who was running for the presidency. Upon seeing the scout in the crowd, Grant stopped the procession and insisted that Phillips ride with him in his buggy. In 1878, he sold his ranch holdings and moved to Cheyenne. He remained there until his death in 1883.
Hattie died in 1936 at age 94. As the man credited for carrying the news of the Fetterman Disaster through hostile Indian country 236 miles from Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Laramie, John "Portugee" Phillips has long been celebrated as Wyoming's frontier hero
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Robert Woodson "Wood" Hite was an outlaw and first cousin of Frank and Jesse James. He was born in 1850 at Logan, Kentucky to Major George Burns and Nancy Gardner Hite, the sister of Robert Sallee James, who was the father of Frank and Jesse James. After the war, Wood rode with the James-Younger gang, participating in many of the robberies and other crimes the outlaws committed. After the disastrous Northfield Minnesota raid, Jesse needed new gang members. Wood and his brother Clarence joined the band. In early 1881 Wood was arrested for killing a black man named John Tabor. Tabor was shot in cold blood while casually sitting on a fence. Hite escaped from jail before he was brought to trial.
In December of that year, Wood Hite was shot dead by Dick Liddil and Bob Ford, also members of the James-Younger Gang. The death of Wood Hite precipitated the series of events that culminated in the killing of Jesse James. All three were staying at the house of Bob Ford's widowed sister, Martha Bolton. Wood and Liddil were both attracted to Martha and quarreled over the romantic triangle. The argument developed into a gunfight. Both men drew their guns. They shot at each other repeatedly. Hite was hit in the arm. Then Ford drew his pistol and shot Hite in the head, killing him instantly. Bob and his brother Charley buried Wood in an unmarked grave. In January 1882, Bob Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Sheriff Timberlake for Wood Hite's murder on the condition they would receive pardons and a reward. Bob claimed in January of 1882 he met with Missouri governor Crittenden who agreed to pardon him for the murder of Wood Hite if he would deliver Jesse James, dead or alive. Bob Ford shot Jesse on April 1882 claiming he believed Jesse would kill him after learning of the murder of his first cousin. After the death of Jesse James, Bob Ford stood trial for Wood Hite's murder and was found guilty. He was later pardoned. In April 1891, Liddil was rearrested for the murder of Hite. He was later released. He died of heart failure three months later. In 1892, Bob Ford opened a saloon in Creede Colorado and was killed by Ed O'Kelly on opening day.


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It happened…. the second Kick Off Picnic was held on Sunday in Skopje City Park. Most of the visitors said that they had an unusual beautiful sunny day. More then 700 people were part of this event, and 95 visitors invested 24.400 MKD. In return they got an award by the projects creators and a traditional picnic meal. But the most important thing that they achieved is that they became one of the supporters of the entrepreneurship and the creative minds in Macedonia.
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Sometimes it takes me a long time to learn a lesson….a really long time. Some of you may remember my blog a couple of months ago about how I made all of these plans for my visit in Toronto, only to be thwarted by the immigration officials in Costa Rica. I recalled how Nana always said, "You can't make a plan." She should know, having lived through the Second World War and bringing up three kids on her own. I don't think that was exactly her plan.
Once again, Costa Rica plays a part in my plan-that-was -not -meant -to-be. I had booked my flight at the beginning of October to come south, and decided to fly to San Jose (Costa Rica, not to be mistaken for California, which of course, I have mistaken in the past by booking the wrong flight) to spend a few days with a certain Latin lover (whom I shall refer to as "Pedro" from hereon-in) I encountered last year. After several messages back and forth, he had told me that he'd love to see me, and that I could stay for however long I needed , etc., etc. I think he really was genuine and was looking forward to seeing me. During the month, we messaged a few times and shared our anticipation to see each other again with excitement. However, as my date of arrival became more and more real and was getting closer and closer, this excitement changed to fear for him.
Three days before I was to leave, I received a message from Pedro telling me to change my flight and that he thought it wasn't a good idea for me to come. He was so sad when I left in July and missed me immensely, and didn't want to go through all of that again. He realized that he may fall in love with me should we spend more time together, and he needed to protect his heart. Furthermore, he had his four-year old for a few days and didn't want to confuse the little one with illusions that Daddy now had a girlfriend and a potential step mother for his kid.
I understood his sentiments of course, but really, telling me this THREE days before I was to come down was not really kosher with me. I called him and we had a good chat on the phone, and I told him that I could just come down and spend time as friends for a few days, spend time with his kid, and drop the expectations about sex, love, etc., etc. He agreed and said that I should come, and told me what shoes to bring to go hiking. I felt comfort in sticking with Plan A.
The next morning however, I awoke with a sense of anxiety and thought I'd better check in with him. I looked at my phone and could see that he was typing as I was calling. A few minutes later I read the message that stated that he had changed his mind back to his original thought and I couldn't come to visit. He couldn't talk to me again for fear of changing his mind and was truly sorry. I took a deep breath and braced myself for the phone call with Air Canada to change my flight. I could have kept it the same and flown into Costa Rica, but really the only reason I was going to see Pedro, and I had no desire to go back to the country that gave me such a hard time last year.
I called Air Canada, and to make a long story short-ish I happened to get a lovely woman named Susan who not only waived my change fee, but did some magic resulting in me flying to Managua on the same day (two days from then) I was intended to leave, for only 20 bucks. Not too shabby. The angels were with me that day, and to be honest, they've been with me since I left a couple of weeks ago.
I had no plan for where I'd go, once I arrived to Managua in the evening, and knew that I couldn't move into my place on the island until the following week. I remembered a friend Penny Light telling me about her friend Grace who has a retreat centre up in the north part of the island. Her place is called GLO (Gracious Living Oasis), so of course I was called due to the "Glo" factor in honour of Mum). So, I woke up, emailed Grace and she got back to me immediately. I jumped in a taxi and headed north for 4 hours and found myself in a small paradise beach town called Apocentio. Grace set me up with her friend who Air bnbs her small sweet "Butterfly House". It was absolutely perfect.
In her guestbook, I saw that the guy who stayed there before me was from Barrie, and our moms had been friends. In a restaurant on Halloween, I ran into a friend I used to work with at a remote heli-ski lodge in BC. Grace and I figured out that we ran in the same Toronto circles and must have been at many parties together about 15 years ago. One of the women on the retreat bought a mantra CD and when she got back to Canada, her sister told her she had the same CD and had met me at Grail Springs Retreat Centre near Bancroft years ago. The world keeps getting smaller. I love it.
I had an amazing nine days there, and had beautiful healthy food, taught a bit of yoga, danced on the beach on the Full Moon with amazing women, befriended several young local kids and danced salsa and bachata. The Plan B turned out to be much more in alignment with what I needed, all I had to do was trust. My sense of gratitude is profound, and I thank the universe again and again for knowing what is best for me.
I've just arrived on Ometepe Island a couple of days ago, and for now, the plan is….I have no idea. But I'm looking forward to whatever comes my way.
Much love and light,
Question for You: Can you think of a time when a plan fell through, only to open up another door that was more inspiring or uplifting?


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February 12 - 17, 2018
Start the Lunar New Year right by clearing obstacles and reversing negativities!
On February 12 and 13 we will have Vajrakilya practice and on February 13th there will also be a Tsog. The 14th will be Vajrakilya with the special Gurktar torma . It's the Tibetan 29th day where we are thinking all bad karma, bad working, bad thinking, all negative actions, all go out with this torma. People are welcome to bring Tsog for the 13th and cookies on the 14th to offer. Lama will make 9 ingredient tukpa for everyone to have after the 14th practice. All practices will be at 6:30 pm. Medicine Buddha practice be held as scheduled. On Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at 6pm there will be a vegetarian potluck dinner.
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Professor Schotte teaches courses in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, the history of science and technology, and the history of the book. She places a strong emphasis on primary sources—reading them closely, and examining them in person—so most classes involve visits to libraries on- and off-campus. She is developing a new course on the history of engineering to be co-taught with Edward Jones-Imhotep in conjunction with the Lassonde School of Engineering.
HIST2250 3.0 Revolutions in the Stars: Science in the Age of Galileo (Winter 2018)
This course surveys the major developments of the 'Scientific Revolution' (c.1500-1700), when technical, theoretical and geographical discoveries gave rise to new understandings of the natural world. Celebrated astronomer, engineer, inventor and author Galileo serves as a focal point, bridging the worlds of famous theoreticians (Copernicus, Vesalius, and Newton) and of anonymous artisans and midwives.
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HIST3234 3.0 Gender in Early Modern Europe (last taught: Fall 2017)
Explores gender ideologies and their lived social and cultural meanings for women — and men — during modern Europe's foundational centuries, 1500-1800. Examines intersections between evolving cultural norms, familial roles, and women's varied activities in spaces outside the domestic household. Also considers gender in relation to major developments of the era — statebuilding, capitalism, overseas expansion, religion and the literacy revolution.
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HIST3240 6.0 Renaissance and Reformation: Brand New or New Again? (Year 2018-19)
How did inadequate education, greed, power struggles and rapid change produce Renaissance high culture? Was it a return to classical education, culture and institutions? A religious renewal? Or new social, political and economic patterns shaping the modern world?
HIST4230 (formerly HIST4260) 6.0 Technologies of Communication: A History of Reading from the Codex to the Kindle (Year 2018-19)
This research seminar explores the history of books and their readers from antiquity to the present. Class is held in York's Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, and includes trips to other area libraries. By studying books as material objects and communication technologies, we will investigate questions of intellectual property, literacy, author and audience, and "the future of the book."
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Winter Blues
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6 comments:
- aschmalz83 said...
That looks like my yard. I am so ready for summer!
- January 26, 2011
- ~~Mel~~ said...
I totally feel ya! I hate winter!
- January 26, 2011
- Sarah C. said...
Goodness! That's a lot to this Southerner. :) Just icky cold rain here today, but, I too, am ready for the warmth & colors of spring.
- January 26, 2011
- Jenners said...
Yowza! We're supposed to have a view like that tomorrow.
- January 26, 2011
- MEK said...
We got snow the other day and its all melted away. I wish it looked like that outside. I love the snow. I am sorry you are having the winter blue but it looks fun!!
- January 27, 2011
- Joc(e) said...
So lovely to look at, but such a pain to deal with.
- January 28, 2011
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