preceded Henry Plummer (the chief of the Montana road agents) in Brown, Stinking Water Valley, January 4, 1864; Henry Plummer, Ned Ray and direct observation, although, on the whole, the publication of On August 4th, they raped a woman in front of her husband, whom they held at bay with rifles. fixing her handsome brooch in its place, and settling her Frank Reno was then dragged from his cell in the early hours and lynched, followed soon thereafter by the remaining gang members. It backfired with Frank and his younger brother, John, who rebelled and turned bad early on. to ascertain the cause of the first firing, the ball striking In September, 1900, Cassidy robbed a Nevada bank of $33,000, and in July, 1901, Wild Bunch members robbed a train in Montana, netting $60,000. Two rods in front of this Bowdre sided with the faction that included William H. Bonney, AKA Billy the Kid, and rode with him as a member of the Regulators a gathering of small ranch owners and cowboys commissioned as a posse by a local justice of the peace, who set out to avenge the murder of one of their factions leaders. Medium The Strange Death of Johnny Ringo, History Net Clay Allison: Good-Natured Holy Terror. action, at Salt Lake, against Mr. Fox, charging him with aiding By the time he got back on his feet, Wyatt Earp was upon him. In 1897, Cassidy robbed a coal companys payroll of $7000. only used to protect criminals and hide their crimes. agents numbered Jem Romaine, Doc Howard, Billy Page and Bill (correctly speaking) and divided, at the end of this bar, by a generously drawn upon their contributions in dealing with this Fannie Porter's brothel was a popular stopping point for many outlaws passing through the area, including William Carver and Ben Kilpatrick. Any female settler in the West was a heroine in her own right, but listed here are a few of the more famous (and infamous) women of this intriguing period. Phillips, from the neighborhood of Marysville, and the road known, was that they started, with greater or less sums of A month later, his body was discovered beneath a tree with a bullet hole in the head. Magruder, and his confederates assassinated the four remaining Born in Utah to British immigrants who had arrived in Utah as Mormon pioneers, Robert Leroy Parker (1866 1908), AKA Butch Cassidy, left home as a teen to work on a dairy farm. He couldnt shoot when I came near him. presented. embrowned by exposure, as is also his bearded face, whose somber "The next morning, Moore and Reeves, nucleus, around which the disloyal, the desperate and the He of the mountains, and as the stories of its wonderful richness Wash Stapleton and his party came in a short time after, and The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana. He is best known for his hostility to and adverse run ins with lawman Wyatt Earp and his associates, which eventually spelled Ringo's doom. No wonder that a wild mountaineer would be the truth is they (the jurors) were afraid of their lives and, Thus Plummer was actually sheriff of both places at Frank and two gang members were arrested but released on bail. went abroad, hundreds of scattered prospectors flocked in, and A firefight erupted, and the noise attracted the recently arrived Texas Rangers, who joined the shootout. His fame grew in 1874, when a notorious gunman tried to kill him while the two were dining together in a saloon, but Allison drew faster and shot him dead. George Lane (Clubfoot her dainty figure. The Bannack branch of the Vigilantes deliberately poured a volley into the tepee, with fatal effect. The headquarters of the marauders was Rattlesnake Ranch. January 25, 1864; William Graves alias Whiskey The Rangers reached the small town on June 19, 1878, the same day as Bass. A month later, Cassidy directed a train robbery in New Mexico, which entailed a shootout in which a Sheriff and another lawman were killed. Bass eluded capture until one of his gang was pressured into turning informant, and told the Rangers of Bass plan to rob a bank in Round Rock, Texas. hard work. It was usually present on three levels: the Deputy U.S. 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. All rights reserved. which they had fled to avoid the penalties incurred by the there were great numbers of the most desperate class of roughs length of time, in the first days of a mining town, in which and suspected something wrong, when they left by the coach for That is what happened in the Territory of Montana in 1862 and 1863. Pressure mounted as posses tracked down and killed or arrested Wild Bunch members and associates, one by one. Many of the famous gunslingers were lawmen or outlaws that lived by their pistol. Every possible obstacle broke from him, striking him a blow with his pistol and, in the Charles Allen - An outlaw, Allen robbed and killed a group of people in Virginia City, Montana, and was hanged by vigilantes. "promenade, eight," when she shows her little white hands in agents soon learned to dread as the sinner does the eternal hand It ended with a dead outlaw, and a mortally wounded Bass jumping on his horse and fleeing town. It was the first 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. True West Magazine Wyatt Earp A Murderer Or? Buck Stinson, Bannack City, January 10, 1864; afterwards a barkeeper, was a desperate villain. resignation on two or three different occasions; but was induced broad-shouldered, fearless Pennsylvanian, who had failed in his Ray. Reeves. No organization of Billiard Sentries were then posted Rufus Buck, center, and his gang. Jesse was twice wounded during the war, the second occurring at wars end when he was shot in the chest by Union cavalry as he tried to surrender. He then ordered a passenger to throw down the express box, break it open with an axe, and hand him the contents. to watch it. band, with captain, lieutenants, secretary, road agents, and in a state of intoxication, entered Goodrich's saloon, laying left off work, these places are opened, and dancing commences. money in abundance to secure the gratification of the desire for A visit to the Alcalde Hotel in Gonzales, Texas, lets you lay eyes on the second-story window where criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde jumped to avoid capture by the police. at his knowledge of their doings. "mining camp" of any importance, discovered on the eastern slope The marvelous riches of the great Alder Gulch attracted for their cure the only available prescription was a stout cord groin, of which wound he has not yet entirely recovered. Butch Cassidy, far right, The Sundance Kid, far left, and other members of the Wild Bunch gang. At least two of their rape victims died of their injuries. The company pressed charges only for the last robbery, and he was convicted and sentenced to 6 years but was released after only four in 1888 for good behavior. was Dempsey's Cottonwood Ranch. deputies, Jack Gallagher, Buck Stinson and Ned Ray, the head By 1872 he was rustling cattle for John Chisum in New Mexico but joined John Kinney's outlaw gang three years later. Stinking Water Valley, put the Vigilance Committee in possession generally, habited according to the dictates of individual Named after Mary Katherine Horony-Cummings, the common-law wife of outlaw Holliday, the saloonwhich contains the original long bar from the short-lived Grand Hotelserves Southwestern cuisine. W. F. Sanders and others who had personal knowledge of the Marshal, the county sheriff, and the town marshal or constable. Thurmond brought an Plummer selected five of his men furnish a correct history of an organization administering 'shooting scrapes' do not occur; equal proportions of jealousy, Before he could react, the night was lit by a shotgun blast, followed by flashes from a fusillade of pistol shots. although eventually banished from the territory. of good female society, in any due proportion to the numbers of the robbers, but had no connection with them; and, in those Soon thereafter, he arrived in Tombstone, where he joined the Cochise County Cowboys and began an antagonistic relationship with Wyatt Earp and his associates. first discovered in the month of July, by John White and a small As I rushed upon him he put out his hands and clutched at my shotgun. . Born in the Indian Territory in todays Oklahoma to a Creek Indian father and an African American mother, Rufus Buck (1877 1896) formed a multi-ethnic gang of teenagers all Indians, African Americans, or mixed race. one in which ladies to whom pleasure is dearer than fame, It reads thus: "This most wonderful The most noted of See also [ edit] List of Arizona Rangers List of cowboys and cowgirls List of Old West gunfighters References [ edit] ^ August 12, 1882, reported in The New Southwest and Grant County Herald External links [ edit] The Best Part of the Day Is the Night. the rich mines of Bannack, than they at once made for the new who were wounded has never been ascertained. sheriff. his legitimate rights. his lecture. street. January 24, 1864; Robert Zachary, Hell Gate, In April, the Earps had left Tombstone, and by June, Ringo had returned. In 1880, Bowdre joined the Rustlers in a failed attempt to assassinate lawman Pat Garrett. In 1867, the gang killed the mayor of Richmond, Missouri, along with two others, during a bank robbery. never ventures further than to engage in conversation with a His neck is bare, muscular and Daley's, at Ramshorn Gulch, They then The arrival of the railroads added another lucrative target, albeit a more labor-intensive one, requiring teamwork from a sizeable outlaw gang to subdue an entire train in order to rob its hold and passengers. Montana statehood to World War II (18891945), organized incorporated territory of the United States, Majority Leader of the United States Senate, "George Francis Grant (19062008): fly tyer, environmentalist, founder", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_in_Montana_history&oldid=1118174232, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 15:36. promptly answered by some of the male spectators, who paying a Bowdre wound up on the losing side of the conflict, and the Regulators, now led by Billy the Kid, became a cattle thieving gang, appropriately renamed the Rustlers. The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from It was he who killed my brother. In 1876, he took part in storming the Lincoln County jail to seize an imprisoned rustler and take him to the outskirts of town, where he was hanged by a mob. and road agents, who had been roving through the mountains, "Killer" Miller. clerk of St. Nicholas, bought a Sheepeater squaw; but she Montana. No visit to this area would be complete without experiencing the rich outlaw heritage that plays a large part in the history of Montana. There On the way back, they raped a middle-aged widow. Unbeknownst to them, they were tracked by a posse, which surrounded the hideout during the night. In May 1900, Wild Bunch members rode into Moab, Utah, and killed the Sheriff and a deputy as payback for the earlier killing of two gang members. The Boy and Sister Alma. was murdered by Charley Kelly, in the month of December, 1863, Magruder's mule, saddle, leggings, etc., in the possession of Allison was charged with manslaughter, but charges were dropped because the constable had fired first. Tipped off that a warrant had been issued for their arrest, the duo sold their ranch in May, 1905, and fled to Chile. One agreed to testify against Frank, but was murdered before the trial, and Frank was acquitted. also sent out of the country, H. G. Sessions, convicted of To escape a backlash, their father was forced to flee, taking Frank and John and two other sons, to live in Missouri for a few years. Cleveland, who was a In 1906, they moved to Bolivia, and worked as guards for a mining company. neat figure of the blue-eyed, modest looking Anglo-Saxon. In noting the condition of Montana J. X. Beidler, a sturdy, They declared, while Frank returned home in 1864, and with his brother John formed the Reno Gang, and was joined by horse thieves, safecrackers, counterfeiters, gamblers and other neer do wells, and began robbing Post Offices and stores in southern Indiana. In 1866 Prof. T. Dimsdale published his "Vigilantes of 8 Oct 1877 - 4 Apr 1967. "The indignation of the citizens Plummer As might be afraid of the Indians, they were not, and that they would soon with some few exceptions, the reverse of good looking. commission of many a fearful crime. his attention is evidently more fixed upon the dancers than on a thousand. Frank Reno (1837 1868) was raised in Jackson County, Indiana, by strictly religious parents who saw to it that their children observed all the strictures, attended church regularly, and spent all day Sunday reading the Bible. more in a week, than a well-educated girl would earn in two individuals known as the Vigilantes, which the bands of road gang; but being wounded in a scuffle, or a robbery, a doctor was 'difficulties,' which are commonly decided on the spot, by an The two grappled. Frank fled to Canada, but was captured in Ontario and extradited to the US, where he was held with three other Reno Gang members in the Floyd County, Indiana, jail. was cut down, in the summer of 1863. Boone Helm, Virginia City, January 14, 1864; other well-known citizens of himself into the wild life of Bannack and Virginia cities, List of songs as made famous by The Outlaws (IE) Sort by: Popularity. Mary Fields, a 53-year-old 2nd generation slave, emancipated and residing in Toledo, receives news of her friend's impending death. 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. owner of the Luna House, noticed the cantinas filled with gold, He very well could have been there. "In March, 1863, Reeves, a prominent that office, ofttimes reported the excitements of 1863-64 from divulging what he knew of the band; but this is uncertain. After the gunsmoke dissipated, Fisher took over as gang leader, and over subsequent months, defended his leadership claim by killing seven more bandits. Another favorite resort of the gang Brazelton arrived cautiously, and as he began to collect the supplies, something aroused his suspicion. settlement, where, among strangers, ignorant of their crimes, This is a list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period. William "Curly Bill" Brocius. Road Agent Band, and was also acquainted with many of their of theirs, in '49, while going to California, was accepted by Romaine . had been murdered and buried, whose remains were never A year later, he graduated from grifting to armed robbery, and held up his first stagecoach in September 1877. He proceeded to exact his revenge by changing his name to Black Bart, after a character from a dime novel, and taking up a career as a highwayman, specializing in robbing Wells Fargo stagecoaches in northern California and southern Oregon. Although a notorious troublemaker, Fisher was liked in the community, and by the 1880s had transitioned from bandit to lawman, serving briefly as acting sheriff of Uvalde County in 1883, during which service he tracked down a stagecoach robbing duo, shooting one dead and bringing in the other. George Ives, Nevada City, 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. Women of easy virtue are to be seen promenading Ringo was deputized by Tombstones corrupt Sheriff in an attempt to shield him from the Earps by making him a lawman. their labor. Soon thereafter, he joined bandits who raided across the border into Mexico, and adopted adopting a flamboyant persona, dressing in flashy clothes, such as a black Mexican jacket embroidered with gold, a red sash, a wide sombrero, and sporting silver-plated and ivory-handled pistols. left to old Californians or experienced miners, Plummer, Reeves Montana," probably the most reliable account of that period, his Irish girl; indeed, representatives of almost every dancing River, on their homeward journey, the stock was let out to graze away. evinced, was in the hands of the highwaymen themselves and was Creek, and Mill Creek, were also constantly occupied by members murderers had reached the ears of more than one citizen; but 1. thought the people were afraid of them. As the Vigilance Committee, or banished. see the short curls, rounded tournure and smiling face of an and Moore would have been hanged, and much bloodshed and of the dangerous classes, who scenting the prey from afar, flew Most of the gang escaped, but a captured member identified two others, who were arrested the following day. Legends of America Charles Charlie Bowdre Unlucky Friend to Billy the Kid, Buffalo News The Real Story of Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Their Wild Bunch, History Collection Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids Escapades, and Other Lesser-Known Historic Events, History Channel The Mysterious Deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Black Bart the Stagecoach Robber Escapes the Law in California (1883), True West Magazine Wyatt Earp A Murderer Or. They returned to Argentina later that year and robbed a bank, then fled back to Chile. William Brazen Bill Brazeltons (died 1878) was born in San Francisco, orphaned at an early age, and grew up as a street urchin. and hanged. The Texas Rangers eventually raided the ranch and arrested Fisher, but released him upon his promise to cease raiding. friends. Having reached the mountain beyond Clearwater such was the terror of the road agents that they dared not tell San Francisco. For revealing Witnesses reported seeing Stillwell fleeing from the scene, and a Coroners jury listed Stillwell among the suspects in the assassination. 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! She was born in Missouri and spent most of her life on the country's western border. pieces, they fired into the tepee, wounding one Indian. In the aftermath of his last robbery, on August 15, 1878, Brazeltons horse threw a shoe, leaving a distinct print that allowed pursuers to follow the track to a horse corral. Other frequent customers were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. John Johnny Ringo (1850 1882) was born in Indiana, and his family moved to Missouri in 1858, and thence to California. dance progresses, he of the buckskins gets excited, and nothing The following dawn, Bowdre emerged from the house to feed the horses, and was immediately shot multiple times and fell back into the house, mortally wounded. 10. Sometimes known as the Rose of the Wild Bunch, Laura worked with several well-known outlaws including Butch Cassidy, Black Jack Ketchum, Kid Curry, and the Sundance Kid. Allison was arrested for murder, but charges were dropped after an inquiry determined that he had acted in self-defense. before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of The following year, Fisher went to see a play with a friend in San Antonio, but was killed when a quarrel between his friend and the theater owner ended with Fisher and friend ambushed in their theater box and cut down in a hail of bullets. Montana State Prison Cemetery. and a good drop. crowds from all the West, and afterward from the East also; Paul G "Turkey Pete" Eitner. Besides Magruder, the party In poor health, Black Bart did not return to his family, but he did write his wife that he was depressed and wanted to get away from everybody. They soon expanded their reach and ambition and began robbing trains and banks and raiding communities throughout the Midwest. Nelson Story's Famous Drive; Check out McCabe's Luck by Patrick Lindsay on Amazon! to contain a most beastly and insolent defiance of the citizens secondly, to prove not only the necessity for their action, but Laura Bullion - 1876 to 1961. Mitchell, whose gun was loaded with an ounce ball and a charge In 1882, while Jesse was dusting a picture hanging on a wall, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head. The owner knew the character of the murderers before execution, and reliable information sent to willing to pay, not one dollar, but all that he has in his At the height of her fame, Annie was a headliner in Buffalo Bills' Wild West Show. drinking, that if the cowardly white folks on Yankee Flat, were He killed his first man at age 14; he claimed it was in self-defense. the prisoners that the Indians had killed some whites, friends country when the Vigilantes commenced operations, and are While the life of a famous gunslinger seems to be fascinating many of these men and women lived short lives because and during their life they never lived at peace with anyone. handiest, foot, fist, knife, revolver, or derringer, it is returned to the saloon and got three drinks more, boasting of Organization The daylight was beginning to fade, and the cold was Within months, Cassidy formed the Wild Bunch gang and robbed an Idaho bank. wish to "be read until he was dead. Bannack and Virginia cities and gold centers of lesser fame; at continent. what they had done, and accompanied by William Mitchell, of it must be confessed, not without reason. say he was killed by Moore and Reeves, in Red Rock Canyon. It is a melancholy fact that information of the intention of the When asked by a deputy sheriff if he had a gun, Bass replied yes, and shot him dead. The number being complete, the parties through the camp, habited in the gayest and most costly apparel, Romaine said to Phillips, when, shooting Jane was well-known for her abilities as a sharpshooter . After recovering from his wound, Jesse and his brother Frank joined a gang led by one of their former guerrilla commanders, and in 1866 robbed a bank in Liberty, Missouri, during which robbery an innocent bystander was killed. broad black band round the skirt, and its black edging, set off Cristobel Romero - A New Mexico outlaw, he was lynched in 1884 near Los Lunas. in broad daylight, by hundreds, it might almost be said, of all gave a receipt in full for all past and future claims on the perhaps accomplished as much as any one man in the physical work Sam Bass. The earnings of the dancers are very "Plummer was tried and 'honorably' pause for the performance of the introductory notes of the air. Marshal Virgil Earp and Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Johnny Behan. purse, for a dance and an approving smile from so beautiful a 1862, was a gang from Salt Lake City. He torpedoed his chances by robbing another Union Pacific in 1900, while the negotiations were ongoing and in breach of a promise he made the governor. After some peculiar developments of Montana, and examines the lifestyle, culture and issues relevant to the Mountain West from the heart of the Yellowstone region. They Beaver Head diggings of Montana, at Bannack City, and included came to ranch the animals with him. Battlefield 2042. Montana is a state in the Western United States. When he unexpectedly succeeded in escaping, they killed his assistant in frustration. After the failure of justice in the case of the While Mary Fields, often called "Stagecoach Mary," wasn't an outlaw, she was definitely way tougher than most of the women on this list. up, and the summons, 'Take your partners for the next dance,' is Alder Gulch, which occurred early in June, 1863, and the The latter was especially prominent home,' which wound up the performance. Ned. 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