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Burton Alvord (1866-1910) - A deputy sheriff turned outlaw in Arizona, Alvord served as an effective lawman for several years before he started hitting the bottle and associating with criminal elements. By the end of the 19th century he had turned to a life of crime and forming the Alvord-Stiles Gang, began to earn his living robbing trains. Captured in 1904, he served two years at the Yuma, Arizona prison before being released and moving on to Central America, where he is thought to have died in 1910. More ...

David L. Anderson, aka: William “Billy” Wilson, Buffalo Bill (1862-1918) - Most commonly known as "Billy Wilson," Anderson moved with his family from Ohio to South Texas when he was a teenager. When he grew up he worked as a cowboy before moving to White Oaks, New Mexico and buying a livery stable in 1880. Within less than a year he sold his operation, but was paid in counterfeit bills. Duped, he began to pass the money anyway and was arrested and indicted.

Skipping bail, he soon fled and joined Billy the Kid’s Gang of rustlers. Along with several other gang members he was arrested by Pat Garrett and convicted in 1881 and sent to prison in Santa Fe . However, he soon escaped and reverting to his real name, David L. Anderson, he returned to Texas, where he began ranching, married, and started a family. In 1896, Pat Garrett helped him to obtain a presidential pardon. Afterwards, he worked as a U.S. customs inspector for a time, before becoming the Terrell County Sheriff in 1905. He was killed in the line of duty in 1918.

Henry Antrim - See William Bonney, aka: Billy the Kid

The Apache Kid (1867-1894?) - The Kid became a scout for the US Army in 1881and served well until he was left in charge of the guardhouse at San Carlos, Arizona in 1887. During this time, he left his post to hunt down a man he believed to be responsible for his father's death and when he and four other scouts returned to the guardhouse, they were ordered to be locked up. 

James Arcine (or Arcene) (18??-1885) - Arcine, a Cherokee Indian, was living near the U.S. Army base at Fort Smith in the 1870's. In 1872, he and a friend by the name of William Parchmeal were traveling in Indian Territory near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. At the same time, Henry Feigel, a Swedish laborer, had set out from Talequah en route to Fort Gibson on November 25th. However, before Feigel would arrive, he was overtaken by Arcine and Parchmeal about two miles outside of Fort Gibson. After firing on the the Swedish man, Arcine then bludgeoned him with a large stone. Parchmeal later claimed he stood by helplessly, fearing Arcine would kill him if he intervened. Arcine then took just 25 cents from Feigel's pockets and made off with his boots, later boasting that he had stolen them from a dead man. Feigel's body was found in the brush the next day.

Though an investigation into his death took place and Arcine and Parchmeal were strongly suspected, no arrests were made and the affair was dropped for the next thirteen years. In 1884; however, the case attracted the attention of U.S. Deputy Marshal Andrews, who uncovered new evidence that established their guilt and the pair were arrested the next year and taken to Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Upon his arrest, Arcine told authorities that he was 33 years old, which would mean that he was 20 when he committed the crime. Later; however, he would tell Judge Isaac Parker that he was only ten years old when he killed Feigel. In the meantime, Parchmeal had confessed to everything and even led U.S. Deputy Marshal Andrews to the very spot where the killing had occurred. Arcine's attempt to secure leniency didn't work. Though an appeal was made directly to President Chester Arthur for clemency, it was denied. On June 26, 1885, Arcine and Parchmealprayed and sang in the Cherokee language up to the minute they were led to the gallows. A few minutes later they were hanged.

James Averell or (Averill) (1851-1889) - An alleged Wyoming cattle rustler who was not guilty, Averell was hanged, along with "Cattle Kate" Watson, by a cattle baron faction in 1889, just one of the many incidents that led to the Johnson County War.   A Wyoming homesteader, Averell ran afoul of powerful Wyoming Stock Grower Association leader, Albert J. Bothwell, who accused him and Ellen Watson of cattle rustling. Soon, he convinced other ranchers of their guilt and on July 20, 1889, Bothwell, along with five other men, hanged the pair at a small canyon by the Sweetwater River. Later investigations into the whole affair have found that most likely neither James Averell, nor his girlfriend Ellen "Cattle Kate" Watson, were guilty of any crime.   The pair’s death was just one of the many events which effectively started the infamous Johnson County War in Wyoming in 1892.  More ...

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