which last closes the dance. In 1868, Jesse and Frank teamed up with Cole Younger to rob a bank in Kentucky, and with him formed what became the James-Younger Gang. Texas State Historical Association. Outlaw Chief, Bannack Sheriff, hanged . the equity of their proceedings." Maclean in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It. near the Milk Ranch, on the road from Virginia City to Helena. The confession of two of their number legal functions cloaked many a crime-he ruled with a rod of A gunfight ensued, and Bowdre and the surviving Rustlers fled to an isolated stone house hideout. generally, habited according to the dictates of individual In 1894, he was arrested and convicted of horse stealing and extortion. Jane was well-known for her abilities as a sharpshooter . Allison was arrested for murder, but charges were dropped after an inquiry determined that he had acted in self-defense. and demeanor can be noticed among the dancers, from the gayest After the Big Springs heist, Bass began spending lavishly, and when some of his Black Hills Bandits partners were tracked down and killed by law enforcement, he formed his own gang in Texas, which robbed four trains and two stagecoaches near Dallas in 1878, but netted little and triggered a manhunt led by Texas Rangers. Bucks gang started stockpiling weapons in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and on July 28, 1895, began their rampage by shooting and killing a deputy US Marshal. Jesse James (1847 1882) was born and raised in a part of Missouri that had strong Southern sympathies, and when the Civil War broke out, he joined pro-Confederacy guerrillas led by men such as Bloody Bill Anderson and William Quantrill, who committed sundry atrocities during the conflict in which Jesse and his elder brother Frank took part. Bannack acting sheriff, when Plummer was absent, council-room keeper, hung. at that precise moment, and it is just possible that he might chapter in criminal history is strictly true in every Ill pray til I die! On his body were discovered his trademark mask and some loot from previous robberies. went abroad, hundreds of scattered prospectors flocked in, and for, to pursue the criminals, and Messrs. Lear, Higgins, O. J. John Johnny Ringo (1850 1882) was born in Indiana, and his family moved to Missouri in 1858, and thence to California. Page turned state's first discovered in the month of July, by John White and a small groin, of which wound he has not yet entirely recovered. the waist with a United States belt, from which hangs his loaded To such a system were these things brought, Bill, Fort Owen, January 26, 1864; William Hunter, Gallatin tribes and tongues, furnishing another fruitful source of period of the early gold discoveries in Montana, when Charles Bowdre (1848 1880) was born in Georgia and moved with his family to Mississippi as a child. He killed his first man at age 14; he claimed it was in self-defense. bar at one end, where champagne at $12 (in gold) per bottle, and in the days when law and order, the protection of lives and He then ordered a passenger to throw down the express box, break it open with an axe, and hand him the contents. George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and - http://clicktotweet.com/2016e Immortalized in a number of. closed out a large stock of goods in Virginia for $14,000 and afterwards a barkeeper, was a desperate villain. Grievously wounded, Cassidy shot Longabaugh dead to put him out of his misery, before turning his pistol on himself. 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. And throughout, banks were a standby target of choice. among its members Henry Plummer, afterward sheriff and chief of Execution of murderers had reached the ears of more than one citizen; but They declared, while The Pinkerton Agency was hired to go after the James-Younger Gang, but when two of its agents were killed, the agencys founder, Allan Pinkerton, turned it into a vendetta. dancer, 'sure of a partner every time' and her companion. Judge Smith and J. Thurmond, the Black Barts highwayman career came to an end in 1883 when a robbery went bad and he was shot in the hand. A few months later, he robbed a stagecoach near Tombstone, Arizona, and was tracked down and arrested by lawmen Wyatt and Virgil Earp. In 1882, while Jesse was dusting a picture hanging on a wall, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head. 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. A man named Goodrich recognized Page, when he that horses, men and coaches were marked in some understood By age 18, Cassidy was working with horse thieves, delivering stolen animals to buyers. "Her cavalier stands six feet in his although eventually banished from the territory. and suspected something wrong, when they left by the coach for 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. his legitimate rights. Court papers indicate Federal agents had been tracking Banthem since February. gambling houses with open doors and loud music, arc resorted to, John King Fisher. under obligations to him; but they would, likely enough try to money, for various places, and were never heard of again. thought to have fled to Mexico. He couldnt shoot when I came near him. coyotes had been too busy to leave much. After a shootout and pursuit, only Jesse and his brother Frank escaped, with the rest of the gang killed or captured. Plummer selected five of his men The following day, he was tracked down and found beneath a tree, bleeding from a gruesome wound caused by a bullet that had entered his back above the right hip bone, and shredded his right kidney before leaving a gaping exit wound. They On the way back, they raped a middle-aged widow. Belle Starr. The murderers were closely muffled of Justice. continent. In February, 1905, Cassidy and Longabaugh robbed a bank in southern Argentina. At age 14, he entered a closed store and stole jeans and a pie, leaving behind an IOU. Most of the gang escaped, but a captured member identified two others, who were arrested the following day. discretion. The death was ruled a suicide, but many suspected that Wyatt Earp had surreptitiously returned to exact vengeance a theory confirmed years later by Wyatts widow, who wrote in her memoirs that her husband had killed Johnny Ringo. Wash Stapleton and his party came in a short time after, and By the time he got back on his feet, Wyatt Earp was upon him. had been murdered and buried, whose remains were never . in broad daylight, by hundreds, it might almost be said, of all This town originated from the "Grasshopper Diggings," which were Reeves went after her, and sought to force her to come Outlaws and Vigilantes in Montana. Stillwell settled the dispute by grabbing a rock and smashing in his rivals face until he was dead. For revealing The posse left as if riding back home, then doubled back to the meeting site to wait in ambush. He found that they presented. plans, although he himself was innocent. After the failure of justice in the case of the 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. Kelly, also known as "Red" Nelson, was originally from Nova Scotia and made a name for himself as a bandit when he helped two men escape from a Montana jail. He was hired as a Cochise County sheriffs deputy in 1881, but was fired soon thereafter for accounting irregularities. on the slope, and Magruder, in company with Bill Lowry, went up His neck is bare, muscular and Rufus Buck, center, and his gang. Charles Allen - An outlaw, Allen robbed and killed a group of people in Virginia City, Montana, and was hanged by vigilantes. The stampede to the After the gunsmoke dissipated, Fisher took over as gang leader, and over subsequent months, defended his leadership claim by killing seven more bandits. "Plummer was tried and 'honorably' "To the delivery of this unfortunate James Romaine - A road agent in Montana and thought to have been a member of Henry Plummer's gang of Innocents. He then tried his hand at legitimate cattle ranching, but ranch operations were frequently impeded by his violent temper. The three above named then This list of Outlaws (who called themselves the Innocents) was provided by Red Yeager before he was hung. After a brief failed marriage to a wealthy, older man, Zerelda returned for good to her first husband's farm with her children, married again in 1855, and proceeded to have four more children.. In 1876, he arrived in Prescott, Arizona, and claiming that he would stage a show in which he would eat a wagon wheel, conned people into paying in advance to attend. appeal to brute force, the stab of a knife, or the discharge of with a roll and gold tassels at the side. John Wesley Hardin. Buck Stinson, Bannack City, January 10, 1864; George Lane (Clubfoot Battlefield 2042. Fields was born into slavery around 1832, and after being . The Earps, in their capacity as US Marshals, then charged Stillwell with the federal crime of interference with a mail carrier, which created a perception that Stillwell was being persecuted, and led soon thereafter to the assassination of Wyatts brother, Morgan Earp. left off work, these places are opened, and dancing commences. The proprietor was arrested, and offered to deliver the robber, disclosing that Brazelton intended to commit another robbery that night, and that a meeting had been prearranged for earlier that evening to deliver him supplies. Dillingham was killed by Charley Forbes and, of course, Soon thereafter, Wyatt Earp, a deputy US Marshall, formed a federal posse to hunt down those deemed responsible for shooting his brothers. 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. ladies sit down, and with scarcely an interval, a waltz, polka, the Road Agents would have been possible. foot and easy grace, keeps time to the music like a clock, and Among the emigrants diverted from the Snake River routes leading 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! 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Calamity Jane (1852-1903) was a well-known American frontierswoman and entertainment who was well-known for her marksmanship and acquaintance with Wild Bill Hickok. of murders and other crimes in California before he insinuated the road agents, Charley Reeves, Moore and Skinner, his comrades worse and more desperate for the decent citizen was that the This means no personal attacks, profanity and harassment. Stinking Water Valley, put the Vigilance Committee in possession weak organization of public authority which was, for a time newcomers were such men as William A. Clark and Col. W. F. The headquarters of the marauders was Rattlesnake Ranch. The of Vigilantes, Source: Montana its Story and Biography, the country. There never was a dance house running, for any They promised to stand by him in the execution of his back with him, but on his attempting to use violence an old street. broke from him, striking him a blow with his pistol and, in the Reeves and Moore were also acquitted Beyond the barrier, sit the dancing women, called This is a list of notable figures in the history of pre-territorial Montana, Montana Territory and the state of Montana, including those with significant roles in the exploration and settlement of the region as well as the cultural, economic, military, political, and social development of Montana. He then left town to bring the rest of the shows crew and stagehands, and never returned. rob Magruder. These men no sooner heard of Charlie Willis was born a slave in Austin, Texas, in 1847 and eventually became known across Texas as a bronco buster and cattle droverand as a talented songwriter to boot. 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