PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R S-Z This interactive biographical dictionary provides concise profiles of the men and women featured in THE WEST, as well as information about many individuals who are mentioned only in passing. In most cases, the profiles offer additional details about the lives of these historical figures, together with some comment on their significance for historians. Click on a name below ...
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Biography of the world's most famous Old West lawman ...
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THE WILD WILD WEST Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues, the words to a popular Country & Western song, is just exactly what the twin territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations were full of in the later part of the 19th century. Known as the Robbers Roost, the territories became a safe haven for some of the old west's most desperate villains. With no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort ...
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Women Pioneers in American Memory, a feature presentation for teachers, provides an investigation of the curricular theme, pioneering women and women's suffrage, through use of primary sources from the American Memory collections - from the Learning Page, The Library of Congress.
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The James and Younger brothers, post-Civil War outlaws ...
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PEOPLE A-C D-H Eaton, Fred Field, Marshall Fletcher, Alice Gall Gibbon, John Gilpin, William Glidden, Joseph F. Goodnight, Charles Haywood, William Big Bill Hin-mah-too-yah- lat-kekt (Chief Joseph) Houston, Sam Howard, Oliver O. I-R S-Z Sam Houston (1793-1863) A sometimes volatile and often contradictory man, Sam Houston played a crucial role in the founding of Texas. Houston was born into a ...
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Works by Dan Buck & Anne Meadows, foremost authorities on fates and South American activities of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place.
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City Manager's Office Jesse James Jesse James Home Of all the worlds' legendary characters, few have attracted world-wide fascination like the outlaw, Jesse James. Some call him America's Robin Hood, while others see him as a cold-blooded killer. Perhaps he was all of these things. Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James, was a ...
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The life and times Wyatt Earp, Desert Lawman and Adventurer.
www.desertusa.com/mag98/mar/papr/du_earp.html
Outlaws, Lawmen and Gunmen - Photos, bio's, wanted posters and books of the old west ...
Videos devoted to heroes giving insight to students of today concerning history, at risk youth, honor, Texas, Santa Anna, loyalty, battles, San Jacinto, and Indians.
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Web site of the Natalie Curtis Burlin Association, an online resource for historians, ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and other scholars and enthusiasts. Provides information about the life and work of Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875-1921).
Shadows of the Past, Inc., takes a chronological look at Jesse James ...
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The James-Younger Gang -- Jesse James Come Ride With Us Artwork by George Warfel, courtesy Phillip W. Steele. Photos from the collection of Phillip W. Steele. Jackson County, Missouri, 1862, age 14 Platte City, Missouri, 1864, age 17 Left to right: Fletch Taylor, Frank James, Jesse James, Nashville, Tennessee, 1865 Nashville, Tennessee, age 19, 1866 San Francisco, 1867 Greenville, Illinois, ...
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James Gang, Stagecoach Robberies, Quantrills Raiders, Cole Younger, james gang, stagecoach robberies, quantrills raiders, cole younger ...
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Story of Wild Bill Hickok ...
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Cherokee Bill This is as good a day to die as any. Cherokee Bill, March 17, 1896, as he stepped into the courtyard at Fort Smith and saw the gallows. Crawford Goldsby (a.k.a. Cherokee Bill) was born at Fort Concho, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1876. One of my source has Bill being of mixed blood, being part white , Hispanic, and black. Another source has reported to me that Bill was of African, European ...
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JOAQUIN MURIETA Described by one historian a vicious and abandoned character, low, brutal, and cruel, intrinsically and at heart a thief and a cut-throat, Joaquin Murieta may have been all those things. But who was Joaquin Murieta, the man And who was Joaquin Murieta, the legend Joaquin the legend grew from a novel written by John Rollin Ridge in 1854, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin ...
Jesse James is one of the most notorious outlaws of the 19th century. It seems he was destined to live a violent life. He got used to killing during the Civil War, and kept up with it after the war was over.
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Biography of one of the deadliest outlaw gunslingers of the old West.
www.famoustexans.com/johnwesleyhardin.htm
More legends The Wild Bunch This was the name of the banditgang that operated from the infamous Hole in the Wall , Browns Hole and Robbers Roost , in Wyoming, between the years 1896-1901. They robbed banks, transports and trains. The gang seldom had more than ten members, but the members changed constantly so the total number of members is probably several hundred. The permanent leader of the ...
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More legends Isaac Hanging Judge Parker (1838-1896) Isaac Charles Parker was born in Ohio and in 1859 he graduated from lawschool. Later that year he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, opened up his own business and met his wife to be. In 1868 Parker was appointed judge, a post he held onto until he was elected to the Congress two years later. Parker ended his political career in 1875, and before ...
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Complete history of Utah in encyclopedia form consisting of 575 articles and over 200 historic photographs. Edited by Allan Kent Powell. Originally published by the University of Utah Press.
www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CASSIDY,BUTCH.html
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Bill Doolin & the Wild Bunch Timeline 1858 William (Bill) Doolin was born on a farm in northeastern Johnson County, AK 1882 Goes to work for Oscar D. Halsell as a cowboy in Oklahoma. July 1891 Bill Doolin and other cowhands gets into shooting scrap with constables near Coffeyville, KS. Sept. 1891 Riding with the Daltons he participates in train robbery at Leliaetta, I.T. Oct. 12, 1892 John J ...
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Buffalo Bill Cody (William Frederick): Buffalo Bill Cody ...
Genealogy of the outlaw Oliver Yantis ...
When tyrants ask you to yield one jot of your liberty, and you consent thereto, it is the first link forged in the chain that will eventually hold you in bondage. Sam Houston Sam Houston Historic School House About the School House FAQ's about Sam Houston Sam Houston by Bob Ellenwood, MPS Presidential Ambitions Houston's Spiritual Journey Chronology of Sam Houston 1793 - 1863 Quotes of Sam ...
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