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Isaac Charles Parker. Judge Parker reigned supreme in his court room for over 20 years and is said to have dispatched 96 men to the gallows.
Belle Starr. Belle had several scrapes with Judge Parker, but was pardoned every time. She was thought to have been ambushed by her last husband.
Reconstruction. At the age of 16, John Wesley Hardin shot and killed two black soldiers attempting to arrest him.
| The first president and governor of the state of Texas, Sam Houston, had a son who became a famous defense attorney in Texas. Who was he? | Old West Gunmen and Lawmen
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Temple Houston. Temple Houston was a flamboyant defense attorney in the 1880's and 1890's. He was also an excellent man with a gun who once outdrew Bat Masterson.
| He was a member of the Dalton gang but was not with them on their doomed attempt to rob the bank in Coffeeville, Kansas. Who was he? | Old West Gunmen and Lawmen
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Bill Doolin. Bill Doolin did not ride with the Dalton gang the day of the bank robbery.
John Selman. Selman was the son of the sheriff of El Paso.
Cole Younger. Belle grew up in Missouri and it is said that she was impregnated by Younger as a young girl. They had a daughter.
Sam Bass. In his whole criminal life, Bass's total take from over five robberies was just over $500.
Judge Roy Bean. Roy Bean dispensed justice from a ramshackled saloon in Langtry, Texas. He named the town after a singer he idolized, Lilly Langtry.
Gunfight. He was a gambler and saloon owner. He died outside his saloon the "The Ocean Oyster" in a gunfight.
Shootout. His real name was Harvey Logan. He was primarily a train robber and stole cattle. He also was a member of the gang "The Wild Bunch". "The Wild Bunch" was a gang of outlaws that operated out of the "Hole in the Wall", "Brown's Hole", and "Robbers Roost" in Wyoming. Butch Cassidy was the leader of "The Wild Bunch" backed by the gunfighting skills of the Sundance Kid. Nearly 100 men were members of the gang at one time or another, but usually less than a dozen rode together at any one time. Kid Curry was wounded by a posse after helping to rob a train. When they found his body later, besides their gunshot wounds, there was also a self-inflicted wound as well. Pinkerton's detectives identified the body but there was controversy. One of the cowboys said it was a cowboy named Tap Duncan and some photos suggested that the body was someone else. Pinkerton stood by it's guns.
Natural causes. He was also a member of "The Wild Bunch", but went straight and missed a bloody death. He came to work in a saloon/resort in Deadwood, South Dakota, where he enjoyed a somewhat famous status.
Blood poisoning. He was wounded while trying to escape after a train robbery. They caught him and he was sent to the Santa Fe prison, where he died from the infected wound.
Shootout. After his time as a bad guy he settled down and bought a ranch in New Mexico. He was killed in a shootout at a cantina after killing two locals and wounding a third.
Trying to escape a lynch mob. He was killed in Caldwell, Kansas, where he was a lawman. He and some others robbed a bank in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where he was caught and jailed. It was there that an angry mob came after him, killing him as he tried to get away. He once rode with Billy the Kid.
Suicide. Mr. Tracy killed himself after being surrounded by a pursuing posse.
Lynching. He was a horse and cattle thief and the leader of his own gang. He was captured and jailed, but removed by a lynch mob and hung.
Shootout. He died in Coffeyville, Kansas as he and other members of "The Dalton Gang" were attempting to rob a bank.
Killed by Wyatt Earp & others. He was killed in Tucson, Arizona. The state brought Wyatt and Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMasters, and John Johnson to trial on murder charges. A jury trial found them not guilty.
July 14 1881. Garrett shot Billy at the Maxwell ranch with two shots.
Alaska. He went to Alaska then relocated to California.
Comanche. He led resistance until the mid-1870's then negotiated for peace.
Illinois. A native of Illinois, he moved west after the Civil War.
25 June 1876. He split his command and was annihialed.
Wyoming. He led the "Wild Bunch" out of Wyoming - better known as "the Hole in the Wall Gang."
2 August 1876. Killed in Deadwood, South Dakota by Jack McCall, who claimed to have a grudge against him.
Bob Ford . Killed 3 April 1882 in St Joseph, Mo. Ford was killed later by a James partisan.
Morgan. Murdered in a pool hall in 1882.
9th cavalry/10th cavalry. The 10th cavalry was posted to Montana and North Dakota to fight the indians. The Indians called them "Buffalo Soldiers" because when they first saw them they had buffalo robes on in the winter and their hair looked like the main of the buffalo.
1909. He surrendered in 1886 and was exiled to Florida. Died at Fort Sill, OK.
1835. Originally formed to patrol the Republic's borders.
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