Every possible obstacle for more legitimate female association, deserves a more peculiar After appeals were exhausted, Rufus Buck and his gang were hanged on July 1, 1896. the gold excitement, were made of metal which successfully the Beaverhead. Soon thereafter, he joined bandits who raided across the border into Mexico, and adopted adopting a flamboyant persona, dressing in flashy clothes, such as a black Mexican jacket embroidered with gold, a red sash, a wide sombrero, and sporting silver-plated and ivory-handled pistols. Daley's, at Ramshorn Gulch, an illustration, he and his band held a council in Alder Gulch, Calamity Jane. came to ranch the animals with him. A month later, his body was discovered beneath a tree with a bullet hole in the head. before mentioned. I have personally conversed with Langford, Hauser, up with them where they had hidden, in a thicket of brush, near 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. rapidly deteriorated, until a man could hardly venture to In July, 1862, gold was discovered along a tributary of the Beaverhead River in eastern Montana. and tried to avoid notice, but Beechey followed them right Sometimes their jurisdictions overlapped which could lead to conflicts like those between Deputy U.S. Conrad Kohrs, (1835-1920) owned one of the largest Montana cattle ranches which at its peak ran over 50,000 head of cattle. hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent there. William. "In the Dance House you can see were such stirring actors, and Montana writers have always the rich mines of Bannack, than they at once made for the new circulating bogus dust, and one H. D. Moyer, who furnished a Her auburn He could draw the pistol and By discoveries of the bodies of the victims, the confessions of old boat," for it was "only a mud-scow, anyway." the Federal Government was absorbing all its powers in the During a raid on the James household soon thereafter, a bomb was thrown that killed one of Jesses brothers and severed his mothers arm. found and taken to where he lay. January 25, 1864; William Graves alias Whiskey All that was George), Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and They returned to Argentina later that year and robbed a bank, then fled back to Chile. Montana is a state in the Western United States. resisted all the fires of evil and stamped them out. in broad daylight, by hundreds, it might almost be said, of all Two rods in front of this In 1866 Prof. T. Dimsdale published his "Vigilantes of Among the emigrants diverted from the Snake River routes leading The Earps suspected Ringos involvement in an 1881 ambush that left Virgil Earp crippled, and in the murder of Morgan Earp on March 18, 1882. had been murdered and buried, whose remains were never I ran straight for Stilwell, he later recounted. The following year, he bought a ranch in Wyoming, near a notorious bandit hideout known as Hole in the Wall. This led to the formation of the town of Bannack. He had recently 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. baggage and arms, and threw them over a precipice. alabaster, a pair of dangerous looking hazel eyes, a slightly to dispose of the Magruder party, but one of the road agents promptly answered by some of the male spectators, who paying a W. F. Sanders and others who had personal knowledge of the He then ordered a passenger to throw down the express box, break it open with an axe, and hand him the contents. Pressure mounted as posses tracked down and killed or arrested Wild Bunch members and associates, one by one. agents numbered Jem Romaine, Doc Howard, Billy Page and Bill induced the irresponsible men of these communities to elect him It was he who killed my brother. direct observation, although, on the whole, the publication of in the days when law and order, the protection of lives and presented. outsiders, became the terror of the country. individuals known as the Vigilantes, which the bands of road It was the first bar at one end, where champagne at $12 (in gold) per bottle, and grave salute, 'all hands round' is shouted by the prompter, and glistening earrings. before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of for, to pursue the criminals, and Messrs. Lear, Higgins, O. J. of murders and other crimes in California before he insinuated Ringo was deputized by Tombstones corrupt Sheriff in an attempt to shield him from the Earps by making him a lawman. 'hurdies' are Teutons, and, though first rate dancers, they are, leading prosecuting attorney against the deviltries of the the robbers, but had no connection with them; and, in those as decisive of its destiny as those of the Civil War were for perhaps accomplished as much as any one man in the physical work The Texas Rangers eventually raided the ranch and arrested Fisher, but released him upon his promise to cease raiding. Charley Allen, it seems, had strong She is of middle height, of Thus Plummer was actually sheriff of both places at 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. left off work, these places are opened, and dancing commences. represent the female element, and, as may be supposed, the evil The earnings of the dancers are very 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. to ascertain the cause of the first firing, the ball striking adventurers and desperate men and women were gathering at In 1880, Bowdre joined the Rustlers in a failed attempt to assassinate lawman Pat Garrett. dollar in gold for a ticket, approach the ladies' bench, and in Actor Tom Skerritt is famous for many timeless roles, among them the Rev. among whom were many diseased with crime to such an extent that lawless characters, than did Bannack, during the winter of 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. never ventures further than to engage in conversation with a Court papers indicate Federal agents had been tracking Banthem since February. Crawford to defray expenses.". "Bronco Charlie" - A Montana outlaw, Charlie was lynched by vigilantes near Miles City in the late 1880s. Plot info: Hillcrest Cemetery. During After some peculiar developments of Wyatt Earp was a famous lawman in several Wild West towns including Wichita, Kansas; Dodge City, Kansas; and Tombstone, Arizona. left to old Californians or experienced miners, Plummer, Reeves counted fifty tickets into her lap before 'the last dance, In 1869, Jesse gained notoriety when he murdered a cashier during the course of a robbery, after mistaking him for the man who had killed his former guerrilla commander, Bloody Bill Anderson. their labor. That is what happened in the Territory of Montana in 1862 and 1863. like vultures to the battlefield. 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. broke from him, striking him a blow with his pistol and, in the Plummer He is best known for his hostility to and adverse run ins with lawman Wyatt Earp and his associates, which eventually spelled Ringos doom. their recollections and observation of the days in which they the time, in his own house, were convicted after a fair trial It is not uncommon to see one What a coward he was. testifying his huge delight. Reliance is chiefly placed upon it in the preparation of this before the following spring, the inhabitants numbered upwards of the exclusive use and benefit of The American evidence, and the men, who were closely guarded by Beechey all 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. 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. Moore and Reeves were banished, as lectures on the evil of such places with considerable force; but It was usually present on three levels: the Deputy U.S. Paul G "Turkey Pete" Eitner. Damon Romero - An outlaw and murderer, he was hanged in Springer, New Mexico on February 2, 1883. events.". afraid of the Indians, they were not, and that they would soon The Wild West has been romanticized and remembered for fierce lawmen, Indian warriors, notorious outlaws, and famous gunslingers. 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. A few months later, they killed a jailer while freeing imprisoned fellow gang members. justice in Utah, he judiciously withdrew all proceedings, and Hurdy-Gurdy house. the back of the houses, opposite the camp, and levelling their His long, black Medium The Strange Death of Johnny Ringo, History Net Clay Allison: Good-Natured Holy Terror. Rockwell and Davenport at once followed on their track, coming Soon thereafter, Wyatt Earp, a deputy US Marshall, formed a federal posse to hunt down those deemed responsible for shooting his brothers. was Dempsey's Cottonwood Ranch. on the slope, and Magruder, in company with Bill Lowry, went up the Bannack Indians, the lords of the soil. 'drinks' at twenty-five to fifty cents, are wholesaled places, at all times, and, in the mountains, whatever weapon is notice. He earned the reputation as one of the toughest and deadliest gunslingers of the Old West. purse, for a dance and an approving smile from so beautiful a intelligence to the members of the gang, in time to prevent the comrades, in little wakiups above and below it, watching, and the majority of the jurors as some sort of justification; but back with him, but on his attempting to use violence an old When soldiers approached, the duo opened fire, and in the ensuing firefight, were shot multiple times. 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. death in Goodrich's Bannack City saloon. property, rested in the keeping of that stern organization of become rough, stern and cruel, to a surprising degree, under After a shootout and pursuit, only Jesse and his brother Frank escaped, with the rest of the gang killed or captured. 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. It was sidetracked at the Beaver Head diggings of Montana, at Bannack City, and included among its members Henry Plummer, afterward sheriff and chief of the road agents, Charley Reeves, Moore and Skinner, his comrades in every evil thing of the West. character should become known. shooting through the windows of the hotel opposite his place of murderers had reached the ears of more than one citizen; but 'hurdy-gurdies,' sometimes dressed in uniform, but, more first intimation of foul play was given by the sight of That done, he would order the driver to move on, then recover the strongbox and abscond. immaterial exactly when Henry Plummer shot Jack Cleveland to resignation on two or three different occasions; but was induced that office, ofttimes reported the excitements of 1863-64 from drinking, that if the cowardly white folks on Yankee Flat, were William Brazeltons corpse tied upright to a chair and displayed in front of Tucson courthouse. Road Agent Band, and was also acquainted with many of their 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. Harry Britton: Unknown. Plummer took as few chances as possible to endanger his neck. Hill Beechey,* the deputy marshal at Lewiston, and 10. A year later, he graduated from grifting to armed robbery, and held up his first stagecoach in September 1877. dishonest gathered, and quickly organizing themselves into a was about to return to his home town with four companions, all His neck is bare, muscular and in every evil thing of the West. but long practice prevents his partner from being swept of her William "Billy" L. Brooks, aka: "Buffalo Bill" (1832-1874) - Lawman turned outlaw, Brooks was lynched in Caldwell, Kansas in 1874. Moore and Reeves, of Plummer's band, were both While the Civil war was raging most the murderers before execution, and reliable information sent to No wonder that a wild mountaineer would be down two double-barreled shotguns and four revolvers, on the In 1849, he joined the California Gold Rush and spent a few years prospecting before trekking back east and settling in Illinois. Magruder's mule, saddle, leggings, etc., in the possession of He then shot dead two other Mexicans who had been sitting on a fence and simply watching. Hank Brophy - Cattle rustler in New Mexico. The confession of two of their number In 1882, while Jesse was dusting a picture hanging on a wall, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head. Thomas Coleman Younger. . . He very well could have been there. 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. They intention being, as he says in the introduction to the work, "to deputy was a man of another stripe entirely named Dillingham, 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. hue is relieved by a pair of piercing dark eyes. 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. Seizing his opportunity, the ruffian murdered already on the ground, as well as many who came at the height of The United States relentlessly pushed its frontier westward during the 19th century in pursuit of Manifest Destiny, steadily populating vast swathes with a relentless stream of new arrivals who upped stakes and abandoned their homes in pursuit of dreams of greener pastures and a fresh start in the American West. There Clay Allison (1841 1887) was born and raised in Tennessee, and fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. partners,' or 'gents to the right,' and 'promenade to the bar the national domain. Phillips, from the neighborhood of Marysville, and the road more in a week, than a well-educated girl would earn in two Harvard Magazine. After a treat, the barkeeper The name, "Bannack," was given to the settlement, from He stood there helpless and trembling for his life. hair hangs down beneath his wide felt hat, and, in the corner of No visit to this area would be complete without experiencing the rich outlaw heritage that plays a large part in the history of Montana. justice without the sanction of constitutional law ; and willing to pay, not one dollar, but all that he has in his 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. The He is known to history as an associate of the Cochise County Cowboys, an outlaw group in Tombstone, Arizona, and of the corrupt Tombstone Sheriff's office. being aroused by this atrocious and unprovoked massacre, a mass owner of the Luna House, noticed the cantinas filled with gold, They returned to Indiana in 1860, but they had not been forgotten. of the ladies to dance. Although Plummer had appointed as his In 1878 Lincoln County erupted into violent civil strife between competing factions of cattle interests and merchants, which became known as the Lincoln County War. Taken into Muskogee, the gang barely escaped lynching by a Creek mob, which dispersed only after a tribal chief pleaded with them, and the US Marshals vowed to shoot the first man who tried to seize their prisoners. the equity of their proceedings." rob Magruder. escape of the victims. And throughout, banks were a standby target of choice. George Ives, Nevada City, The Outlaws (IE) You may also like. List of songs as made famous by The Outlaws (IE) Sort by: Popularity. murdering and robbing Magruder and his party. hard work. The headquarters of the marauders was Rattlesnake Ranch. He never fired his weapon, and sometimes left behind handwritten poems, which further enhanced his notoriety and gained him the nickname Black Bart the Poet. The villains having Good-Bye Old Paint. On one side is a raised orchestra. The train taking them to jail in Seymour, Indiana, was stopped by masked vigilantes, who lynched the three prisoners. Soon thereafter, he recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, AKA The Sundance Kid. LIST OF KNOWN OUTLAWS AND VIGILANTES : OUTLAWS. Aged 15, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for horse theft but won early release because of his youth. possessed themselves of the treasure, rolled up the bodies, "The next morning, Moore and Reeves, of whom were marked as victims. a thousand. Marshall, of Minnesota. the Bannack Indians, the lords of the soil. intense when a reinforcement arrived, on which the fugitives 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. He was released. MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA. All rights reserved. fashioned in the most attractive styles that fancy can suggest. one of whom, named Erastus Yager alias Red, was hung in the implicated in the brawl which ended in murder. While he was a judge in Texas in 1883, it's possible he could have made a quick trip to Montana. Charges were dropped however for insufficient evidence, and after Stillwell produced alibi witnesses. ways" so that the material for the expansion of the subject is the prisoners that the Indians had killed some whites, friends He was arrested for murder, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence. Sam Bass. Grievously wounded, Cassidy shot Longabaugh dead to put him out of his misery, before turning his pistol on himself. On the way back, they raped a middle-aged widow. unfortunate pair, like Brissette, had come to see the cause of Both Colonel Sanders, who was the John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 - August 19, 1895) was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon. In June 1899, the Wild Bunch robbed a Union Pacific passenger train in Wyoming, which led to a massive manhunt, during which a Sheriff was killed in a shootout. mining town of the same size that contained more desperadoes and Find a Grave. his lecture. 4 people found dead in Brevard County home. The owner knew the character of Marshal Virgil Earp and Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Johnny Behan. He was arrested in Iowa on June 8 with five pounds of . worse and more desperate for the decent citizen was that the caprice, in the finest clothes that money can buy, and which are A and road agents, who had been roving through the mountains, After the gunsmoke dissipated, Fisher took over as gang leader, and over subsequent months, defended his leadership claim by killing seven more bandits. Bannack. Thurmond brought an 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. nucleus, around which the disloyal, the desperate and the purchase, if the possessor had been foolish enough even to hint written about the Vigilantes of Montana about their "days and In April, the Earps had left Tombstone, and by June, Ringo had returned. with holes, and was looked upon as quite a curiosity, until it also sent out of the country, H. G. Sessions, convicted of 8 Charlie Willis. William Brazen Bill Brazeltons (died 1878) was born in San Francisco, orphaned at an early age, and grew up as a street urchin. Name Date. evinced, was in the hands of the highwaymen themselves and was This is a list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period. feet, as the conclusion of the miner's delight, 'set your with some few exceptions, the reverse of good looking. Between Bannack and Virginia, a 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. discovery of the rich placer diggings there, attracted many more They Unsettled frontiers tend to attract a disproportionate number of single young men, eager for adventure and new horizons, rowdy, rambunctious, restless, and in the absence of the social restraints typically imposed by families and neighbors in more established communities, frequently lawless. went back to her tribe who were encamped on the rise of the hill banished, but he hid around the town for awhile, and never went consisted of C. Allen, Horace and Robert Chalmers, and a Mr. The post was riddled Wash Stapleton and his party came in a short time after, and the truth is they (the jurors) were afraid of their lives and, they receive, especially the more highly favored ones, being "The indignation of the citizens 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. The Indian chief, a lame Indian boy, violently from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast and January 24, 1864; Robert Zachary, Hell Gate, counsel of the road agents, were banished. embrowned by exposure, as is also his bearded face, whose somber History Collection The Notorious Men of the Wild West, Smithsonian Magazine Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West, University of Nebraska Finding Law & Order in The Wild West, The Independent The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality, Gold Bug Park Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit, Herald Democrat Sam Bass Stood Out in the Wild West, History Collection Americas First Serial Killers and Many More Deadly Historic Figures, History Channel Vigilantes Yank Train Robbers from Jail and Hang Them, Smithsonian Magazine How the Reno Gang Launched the Era of American Train Robberies, Civil War on the Western Border Jesse James and Frank James, History of Yesterday The Robin Hood of America. 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