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Cullen Montgomery Baker
(1839-1868) - A guerilla
soldier during the
Civil War, Baker didn't want to give up the fight
once the Confederates lost the war. Afterwards, he continued to
"fight the war," ambushing reconstructionists, killing former
slaves, and generally terrorizing the State of
Texas
for four years. Though many confederate sympathizers considered
him a hero and his violent accounts were often romanticized, in
reality, he was a merciless killer who murdered not only for his
"cause," but also for any other little thing that displeased him. Operating from the Sulphur River bottoms near Bright Star,
Arkansas,
authorities blamed him for killing at least 30 people during these
years, most of them by ambush or shots to the back. A posse
finally caught up with him on January 6, 1869 in Southeast
Arkansas
and Baker was shot.
Seaborn Barnes, aka: "Nubbin’s Colt"
(1849-1878)
- Born in Cass County
Texas
around 1849,
Barnes never really attended school and was illiterate when he
went to work as a cowboy in his early teens. Never able to hold his
liquor well, he was involved in many barroom fights and was jailed for
a year in Fort Worth over a shooting that occurred when he was just
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Seaborn Barnes and
Sam Bass were both killed in a shoot-out in Round Rock,
Texas .
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He was
arrested again in 1874 in Calahan County, but soon escaped.In 1878,
Barnes joined up with the Sam
Bass Gang and soon became Bass' chief lieutenant, helping to rob
several trains in the spring of 1878. However, when they attempted to
rob the bank at Round Rock,
Texas
on September 20, 1878, a new member of the gang - Jim Murphy, turned
informer and the
Texas
Rangers
were waiting. In the ultimate shoot-out that occurred,
Barnes took a bullet in the head and was killed instantly. Though
Bass was
severely wounded, he made it to his horse and rode out of town along
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However,
Bass was found
lying dead on the ground the next day not far from town, identified by the
traitor, Jim Murphy. Frank Jackson escaped, never to be heard from again.
Seaborn Barnes was buried next to
Sam Bass in
the Round Rock cemetery. On his tombstone read the words: "He was right
bower (sea anchor) to
Sam Bass."
Richard "Rattlesnake Dick" Barter, aka: Dick Woods (1834-1859) -
Born in Quebec, Canada, Barter migrated to
California
during its gold rush days, but failing to find gold the legitimate way, he
turned to rustling horses. Not known to have ever killed anyone, he
nonetheless terrorized the Sierra foothills for over three years from 1856
to 1859. He soon hooked up with brothers, George and Cy Skinner and
they started relieving muleskinners of their loads of gold coming from
Nevada City. On July 11, 1859, Barter and Cy Skinner were trapped in a
mountain pass near Auyburn,
California
by Sheriff J. Boggs. In the
gunfight that followed, Rattlesnake Dick was
killed and a wounded Skinner was taken into custody and given a long
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Sam Bass died of gunshot wounds on his 27th birthday.
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Samuel “Sam” Bass
(1851-1878)
- Born on a farm near Mitchell, Indiana on
July 21, 1851,
Bass hated school and by the time he grew up, he was illiterate.
As a young man, he moved to Denton,
Texas
where he went to work for Sheriff W. F. Egan as a teamster. But he
soon tired of the hard work of loading and unloading the wagons and
quit to become the full-time owner of a one-man racing stable. Later
he worked as a
cowboy
and drove a large herd of cattle north to
Kansas,
along with two other men named Jack Davis and Joel (Joe) Collins.
However, once they arrived, they began to hear of the gold strike in
Deadwood,
South
Dakota and after a bout of drinking, they decided to keep the
cattle owner's profits and join the rush . After drinking and gambling the money away,
Bass became
a true
outlaw
and began to rob stage coaches in the Dakotas. Later, he
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The gang soon headed back
to
Texas
and planned to rob a bank in Round Rock. However, they were unaware that
the gang had been infiltrated with an informer named Jim Murphy, who set a
trap for them. When they went to rob the bank on July 19, 1878, the
Texas Rangers
were waiting and in the inevitable
gunfight,
Seaborn Barnes was shot in the head and
Bass was
severely wounded. Though he made it to his horse and rode out of town, he
was found lying helpless in a
pasture north of town
the next day.
Bass was
brought back to Round Rock where he died on July 21st. It was his 27th
birthday.
Jules Beni
(18??-1861) - On the border of
Colorado
and Nebraska,
Beni established a trading post in 1859 to serve the many travelers
heading westward. Naming his post Julesburg, the station soon became
an important stop on the Overland Stage Route, as well as a
Pony Express
stop. However, when Beni was appointed as the Stage Station Manager,
the route began to be robbed constantly and other crimes were committed in
the area including cattle rustling and wagon train robberies. It was
soon discovered that Beni was leading a gang of
outlaws
and he was replaced by the stage line with Captain Jack Slade. Furious, Jules, ambushed
Slade with a shotgun; however, the new manager survived. After he
recovered, he hunted Beni down, lashed him to a corral post and used him
as target practice. Beni died with 22 bullet holes in him and
Slade
kept his ears as souvenirs.
William "Tulsa Jack" Blake
(18??-1895) - Blake was a
cowboy in
Kansas
during the 1880's but later he wandered south into
Oklahoma
and by late 1892 he had joined up with
Bill Doolin's Wild Bunch. During the next two years he would be involved with a number of train and
bank robberies with other members of the gang. During this time he
was a key figure in a
gunfight with several
lawmen
at Ingalls,
Oklahoma,
on September l 1893, where the gang killed three officers. A posse
led by U.S. Deputy William Banks finally tracked down the gang in Major
County,
Oklahoma
on April 4, 1895. In a fierce gun battle that lasted almost 45
minutes, Blake was killed by U.S. Deputy William Banks when he tried to to
escape. The death of "Tulsa Jack" was the beginning of a violent end
to Bill Doolin's gang, as the rest of the gang would soon be killed or
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Charles E. Bolton, aka: Black Bart, Charles E. Boles, T.Z. Spalding
(1830-1917?) - Born in Jefferson County, New York in 1830,
Bolton made his way to
California
in about 1850. Sometime later he decided to make his living as
one of most unusual stagecoach robbers in American history. His first
recorded robbery was in August, 1877 when he waylaid a
Wells Fargo
coach outside Fort Ross, taking a strongbox
that contained $300. Over
the next years, he would rob another 30 stagecoaches, never wounding
anyone during the crimes, and often leaving notes of poetry behind in
the strongboxes he looted.
So here I've stood while wind and rain
Have set the trees a'sobbin'
And risked my life for that damned stage
That wasn't worth the robbin'. |

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During his hold-ups, he wore a
flour sack over his head with the eyeholes cut out and never robbed the
passengers. In 1883, after robbing another
Wells Fargo stage, a lone
rider following the coach, fired a shot and wounded Bolton in the hand.
Wrapping his wound in a handkerchief and fleeing, the handkerchief was
later found by a
Wells Fargo detective. A laundry mark on the fabric led
the detective to Bolton who was arrested. On November 17, 1883, he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years at San Quentin. After
serving four years, he was released and in 1917, newspapers reported his
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Billy the
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William Bonney, aka: Billy the Kid, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, William
Antrim, Henry McCarty (1859-1881) --
On July
14, 1881
Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County,
New Mexico
Sheriff, along with two deputies were questioning
Billy’s
friend Pete Maxwell at his home in
Fort
Sumner,
New Mexico. Garrett,
had been pursing
Billy
for well over a year. Sitting in a darkened bedroom,
Garrett,
was asking Pete about
Billy’s
whereabouts when
Billy
himself unexpectedly entered Maxwell’s quarters. Seeing Maxwell
in the dim light,
Billy
did not recognize
Garrett
and said
"Quien es? Quien es?" -- "Who is it? Who is it?" These were the last words that
Billy
ever uttered.
Garrett,
pumped two shots from his pistol straight into
Billy’s
heart. Billy the
Kid was buried the next day at
Fort Sumner
cemetery between two of his
outlaw pals -
Tom O’Folliard and
Charlie Bowdre.
Billy the
Kid was just 21. The old
Fort Sumner
Post Cemetery is near present day Fort Sumner,
New Mexico.
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Joe Boot (18??-??) - Little is known
about this "one-hit"
outlaw,
whose name is remembered in history only because of his stage robbery with
the lady bandit,
Pearl Hart.
Thought to have been a farmer before meeting Hart in
Arizona,
he was working as a miner in Globe when the pair hooked up. Allegedly, he
had been planning a train robbery for some time when
Hart
approached him, needing money for her ill mother. Instead of robbing a
train, the two held-up a
stagecoach between Florence and Globe,
Arizona on
May 30, 1899. Taking about $450 and a revolver, they were soon
apprehended. Though
Hart
was sentenced to just five years, Boot was sentenced to 30 years in the
Yuma Territorial Prison. However, just two years later, in 1901, he
escaped. Thought to have fled to Mexico, he was never recaptured or heard
of again.
Dutch Henry
Borne (1849-1921) - Born
in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on July
2, 1849,
Borne joined the Seventh Cavalry when he grew older but quit in
the late 1860's. Shortly afterward,
Borne was arrested at
Fort Smith,
Arkansas, for stealing twenty
government mules. He was sentenced to prison, but escaped just three
months later. He then moved on to
Kansas,
Colorado,
and
Texas,
where he emerged as the
leader of a
horse-stealing ring in 1875. Operating in a vast area from
Kansas
to eastern
Colorado
to
New Mexico
and the
Texas
Panhandle. In December, 1878 he was arrested and transferred to the
Bent
County,
Colorado Jail. Instead,
Bat Masterson took him to
Dodge City,
Kansas
under a warrant for grand larceny. However,
Born
was acquitted in January 1879. Soon, he drifted on to
Las Vegas,
New Mexico ,
where he was said to have been a member of the notorious
Dodge City Gang. By that time, he had become so good at stealing horses, that one legend
says that he once sold a sheriff his own recently stolen horse. The term “Dutch
Henry” soon began to
be known as a stolen horse. Finally, the State of
Arkansas finally
caught up with him, putting him back in prison for the
Fort Smith
robbery years before. However, his time behind bars was apparently
brief, as by the late 1880s he was prospecting in
Colorado. In the 1890's, he became a homesteader, settled down and fathered four
children.
Borne
died of pneumonia on January 10, 1921, and was buried at Pagosa Springs,
Colorado.
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Charles
"Charlie" Bowdre (1848-1880) - Charlie Bowdre came from a
prominent family in Wilkes County, Georgia where he was born in 1848. Raised in DeSoto County, Mississippi, he headed west and by 1874 he had
landed in
New Mexico
where he was farming south of Lincoln. When the
Lincoln
County War erupted he fought with the McSween faction along side
Billy the Kid .
After losing the war, both he and the
Kid ,
retreated to
Fort Sumner, where Bowdre went to work as a
cowboy. Though he was not overly involved with
Billy's
cattle rustling activities, he remained friends with several of the gang
members and by association, was a suspect in their
outlaw
endeavors. In December, 1880 he was riding into
Fort Sumner
with
Billy
and his gang when
Pat Garrett
shot and killed gang member Thomas O'Folliard. The others escaped,
but several days later, on December 23, 1880, Garrett and his possemen
shot and killed Bowdre and captured the Kid and his gang at Stinking
Springs. Bowdre is buried next to
Billy the Kid
at Fort
Sumner's old military cemetery.
Richard “Dick” Broadwell, aka:
Texas Jack, John Moore (18??-1892)
-
Dick Broadwell
was from a prominent family near Hutchinson,
Kansas and
at the opening of
Oklahoma
Territory he staked a claim to a homestead in the Cowboy Flats area.
There, he met and a young lady who owned the homestead next to his
and asked her to marry him. After
their marriage, she persuaded him to sell both claims and move with her to
Fort Worth,
Texas, where she disappeared with their money.
The embittered
Broadwell
returned to the
Indian
Territory
and started work on the ranches where he met the members of the
Dalton Gang.
Soon, he was robbing banks and trains throughout
Kansas and
Oklahoma. He was killed during the attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville,
Kansas on
October 5, 1892. His family claimed his body and returned with it to
Hutchison,
Kansas. However, he was buried at night in an unmarked grave.
The exact location is unknown but is most likely somewhere in the
Broadwell
plot in the Hutchison Cemetery.
William B. "Curly
Bill" Brocius (or Brocious) (1845-1882) - An
outlaw
leader of the
Clanton Gang of
Arizona,
Curly Bill was a vicious, drunken gunman, cattle rustler and murderer. In October of 1880, he shot
Tombstone's
first marshal,
Fred White when the marshal attempted to disarm him. Charged
with the murder, Brocius was later acquitted by a jury as an accidental
death. In July of 1881, Curly Bill, along with
Johnny Ringo, killed William and Isaac Haslett in Hauchita,
New Mexico
in revenge for the deaths of Clanton members Bill Leonard and Harry Head
who had attempted to rob the Haslett brothers general store some weeks
earlier. A few weeks later, Brocious led an ambush attacking a group
of Mexicans in the San Luis Pass, killing six of them and torturing the
remaining eight. After the death of
"Old Man" Newton Clanton in another ambush in Guadelupe
Canyon in July, Curly Bill became the leader of the
Clanton Gang. After the
Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral in October, 1881, Brocius attempted to kill
Virgil Earp and succeeded in assassinating
Morgan Earp. Brother
Wyatt,
looking for revenge for
Morgan's killing, reportedly caught up with Brocius on March 24, 1882, and
killed him with a double shotgun blast to the chest. This account;
however, was reported by
Wyatt Earp
himself and many historians doubt the fact as
Earp
was known to have exaggerated some accounts.
Leonard Calvert Brock, aka: Will Waldrip, Joe Jackson, Henry Davis
(1860-1890) - Born on July 13, 1860, Brock and his brother, W.L.,
joined the
Burrow Gang in 1888 and aided the notorious brothers in a number of
train robberies in
Texas
and Alabama. He was identified as one of the
outlaws
when the
Burrow Gang
robbed the Mobile & Ohio train on September 26, 1889. After a substantial
reward was posted for him, he was arrested on a train in Columbus,
Mississippi in July, 1890. After a quick conviction, he was sentenced to a
long prison term. However, he committed suicide on November 10, 1890 by
jumping from the fourth tier of the cell block.
William L. "Buffalo Bill" Brooks (1832–1874) -
Born in Ohio, Brooks moved westward and became such a successful buffalo
hunter, that he earned the nickname of "Buffalo Bill." At the same time,
he was gaining a reputation as a
gunfighter and was briefly hired as a
stage driver before becoming the marshal of Newton,
Kansas in 1872.
Successful in the role, Dodge City soon offered him a better position and
Brooks became the town marshal there. Though in his first year, he cleared
many of the town's seedier elements, it was also felt that he was too
quick on the trigger. In his first month alone, it is said that he was
involved in 15
gunfights.
By 1873, Dodge
City was began to wonder about several men who had been killed in
questionable circumstances, including a man Brooks killed in an argument
over a local dance hall girl. Brooks left the position shortly afterwards
and returned to his old position as a stage driver for the Southwestern
Stage Co. in 1874. However, when the stage company lost their mail
contact, Brooks lost his job and turned to outlawry. In June, 1874,
several mules and horses belonging to the rival stage company who had
garnered the mail contract, went missing. In July, 1874 Brooks was captured by a posse with
several other horse thieves near Caldwell,
Kansas. Hauled to jail to await trial, a lynch mob stormed the Caldwell jail on
July 29, 1874 and lynched Brooks, along with two other horse thieves by
the names of L.B. Hasbrouck and Charlie Smith.
Reportedly, Brooks struggled violently after the rope
failed to break his neck and strangled to death.
Henry Newton Brown (1857-1884) -
Outlaw
turned
lawman
turned
outlaw,
Brown worked as a
cowboy
in
Texas
and Colorado
before drifting to
New Mexico ,
where he hooked up with
Billy the Kid . In 1878, he returned to
Texas
and took a job
working as a deputy sheriff in Oldham County. He then worked on
several ranches in
Oklahoma
before making his final move to Caldwell,
Kansas. In 1882, he as hired as an assistant marshal in Caldwell and later
promoted to marshal. Brown hired his friend Ben Wheeler, aka: Ben
Robertson, to work as a deputy and the two men “cleaned up” the tough
town.
However, Brown had been living beyond his means and the debts were
mounting. Falling back on his old
outlaw
skills, Brown, along with his deputy, Ben Wheeler, and two other
cowboy
outlaws made
a failed attempt to rob the nearby Medicine Lodge,
Kansas
bank on April 30, 1884. In the process, they killed two men and
without a dime, fled the bank with a posse right behind them. Quickly
captured, they were taken to the Caldwell Jail where a hanging mob raged
outside. When the mob stormed the jail, Brown tried to escape but
was shot down. The other three were hanged.
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Charles "Charlie" Bryant, aka: Black Face Charlie (18??-1891) -
Born in Wise County,
Texas ,
Charles worked as a
cowboy from the time he was just a teenager. When he
was still very young, he got into a
gunfight and when a pistol was fired
next to his face, the grains of black powder permanently disfigured him,
hence the nickname. Charlie joined the Dalton Gang in 1890 and was with
them when they robbed a train near Wharton,
Oklahoma on May 9, 1891, as
well as the train robbery near Red Rock some weeks later. Bryant was
said to have loved gunplay of any kind and the Daltons often found him
unreliable, he was so quick with the "trigger finger." While the gang was
camped out near Buffalo Springs,
Oklahoma, Charlie got sick and was taken
to see a doctor in nearby Hennesssey. While he was recuperating in a
hotel,
U.S. Deputy Marshal Edward Short learned of his whereabouts and soon
made an arrest. On August 3, 1891, Short and Bryant boarded a train so
that Short could deliver the
outlaw
to the federal district court in Wichita,
Kansas. When
Short had to
relieve himself, he made the mistake of leaving Bryant under the guard of
the express car messenger. The messenger, seeing that Bryant was asleep,
laid down the gun and went about his work. When
Short returned,
Charlie, who had only been pretending to be asleep, had just grabbed the
revolver and shot the marshal in the chest as he reentered the car.
Short
immediately returned fire with his rifle, blowing his chest away and
severing his spinal column. By the time the train reached Waukomis,
both men were dead.
Rufus Buck (18??-1896) – A Creek
Indian
who had served time for minor offences in the Fort Smith,
Arkansas jail, Buck decided
to make a name for himself in the summer of 1895. Forming the Buck
Gang, he and four other men began to stockpile weapons before going on a
ten day murder and robbery spree in
Indian
Territory. Buck bragged to anyone who would listen that “his outfit
would make a record that would sweep all the other gangs of the territory
into insignificance.” Beginning on July 30, 1895, the
outlaws
killed U.S. Deputy Marshal Garrett when he tried to stop them from a store
robbery in Okmulgee,
Oklahoma. They then went on to rob a number of settlers in the next ten days,
killing two more men, and raping two women. All five members were
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Laura
Bullion, aka: Della Rose, Rose of the Wild Bunch (1876?-19??)
- Born in Knickerbocker,
Texas
around 1876
to a German mother and a Native American father, she met
outlaws
William Carver and
Ben "The Tall Texan" Kilpatrick when she was just a teenager. Knickerbocker was a haven of
outlaws
and Laura's own father was a bank robber, so it came as no
surprise when the young girl followed a life of crime. When she was just 15 years-old she began a romance with
Will Carver, who had been married to her aunt until she had
recently died. Carver often worked with
Black Jack Ketchum robbing trains before he moved on to
Utah
and hooked up with
Butch Cassidy
and the
Wild Bunch,
where Laura ultimately ended up too. Somewhere along the line,
Laura transferred her affections to
Ben Kilpatrick, who cast his lot
with the
Wild Bunch in
1898. Laurie Bullion often helped the gang by fencing goods and
money for them and was known to the group as Della Rose and often
called the "Rose of the
Wild Bunch."
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Laura Buillion was a member of
Butch Cassidy's
Wild Bunch, photo 1893.
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Having taken part in
several train robberies with the
Wild Bunch,
Kilpatrick and Bullion returned to
Texas
with
William Carver, where
Carver was ambushed and killed by lawmen on
April 1, 1901. Bullion and
Kilpatrick then fled to
to
St. Louis,
Missouri,
where they were arrested on November 8, 1901. Kilpatrick
was found guilty of
robbery and sentenced to 15 years in prison, while Laura was sentenced
to five. After serving 3 1/2 years, Laura was released from the
Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson
City,
Missouri, on September 19, 1905 and lived the last years of her
life in Memphis, Tennessee, under the name of Freda Lincoln, making
her way as a seamstress and a dressmaker. She passed away on December
2, 1961 and is buried in Memphis under a tombstone that reads, "Freda
Bullion Lincoln—Laura Bullion—The Thorny Rose." She never saw
her lover Ben Kilpatrick again. Kilpatrick, on the other hand,
was released from prison in June, 1911 and immediately returned to a
life of crime. While
trying to rob a Southern
Pacific express near Sanderson,
Texas ,
on March 13, March, 1912, he was killed with an ice mallet.
Eugene Bunch,
aka: Captain J. F. Gerard (18??-1892) - Born in Mississippi, Bunch
was well educated and grew up to become a teacher in Louisiana before
moving on to Gainesville,
Texas where he edited a local newspaper.
However, for reasons unknown, he turned to train robbery. Along with
a few other bandits, the group robbed trains in
Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi from 1888 to 1892. Upon arriving on the train, Bunch always
spoke softly to the express car messengers, telling them that if they did
not open their safes, he would "blow their brains out." Before robbing the
train's passengers, he always politely introduced himself as Captain J. F.
Gerard to train passengers, tipped his hat to the ladies and didn't take
their handbags. Though he was just as gentlemanly to the men, he did,
however; take their wallets. For the four years Bunch operated, he robbed
six trains, making off with an more than $30,000. But for Bunch, like many
others, it wasn't to last. After making his largest robbery in 1892,
taking some $20,000 from a train near New Orleans, he was heavily pursued
by Pinkerton agents. Before long, they tracked him to a swamp near
Franklin, Louisiana and on August 21, 1892, shot and killed him and his
cohorts.
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Jim
Burrow (18??-1888) - Jim Burrow,
originally from Alabama, grew up to rob trains with his brother
Reuben "Rube" Burrow in 1886. Robbing their first train on December 1,
1886 in Bellevue,
Texas,
they only netted a few hundred dollars. Adding members to their gang, they
robbed so many trains by early 1888 that they had become the most most
infamous train robbers since
Jesse James
,
and were pursued by hundreds of
lawmen
throughout the south and southwest. But for
Jim ,
his life as an
outlaw
was to be short-lived. In 1888, the
brothers were recognized by a conductor on a train pulling into Nashville,
Tennessee. Notifying authorities,
lawmen
trapped
Rube
and
Jim in a passenger car.
Rube
shot his way to freedom but
Jim
was taken into custody and jailed in Texarkana. Later that year, he died in prison of consumption on October 5, 1888.
Reuben
"Rube" Houston Burrow (1854-1889) -
Born in Lamar County, Alabama on December 11, 1854, he grew up to be a
farmer in
Arkansas.
However, in 1872 he moved to Stephenville,
Texas
where he maintained a ranch. In 1876, he married and the couple had
two children. He was known as an upstanding citizen, and a Masonic
Lodge member. After his wife died of Yellow Fever in 1880, he was
left to care for his two small children. He remarried in 1884 and bought a
farm near Alexander,
Texas. However, when his crops failed, he turned to robbing trains with his
brother
Jim
in 1886. Collecting a couple more hard cases including W.L and
Leonard Brock, Henderson Brumley, and Nep Thornton, forming the
Burrow Gang,
they robbed their first train on December 1, 1886 in Bellevue,
Texas,
though they only netted a few hundred dollars. The gang, taking on
new members here and there continued to rob so many trains that by early
1888, they had become the most infamous train robbers since
Jesse James
,
and were pursued by hundreds of
lawmen
throughout the south and southwest. When they were spied by a conductor on
a train as it was pulling into Nashville, Tennessee,
lawmen
trapped
Rube
and
Jim
in a passenger car.
Rube
shot his way to freedom but
Jim
was taken into custody and jailed in Texarkana. Later that year,
Jim
died in prison of consumption on October 5, 1888. With wanted posters
hanging everywhere,
Rube
became the subject of one of the most widespread manhunts in American
history. But, unafraid, the
outlaw
continued to rob trains, often returning to Alabama where he would be
protected by the locals. That all changed on October 7, 1890, when
Rube
was recognized by a store owner named Dixie Carter in Linden, Alabama. As
Burrow looked at some rifles, Carter pointed his own shotgun at the
outlaw
and marched him to a storeroom where he locked him up. However, while Carter
went for the authorities, Burrow was able to escape, later returning to
the store planning to kill Carter. When
Rube
spotted the shopkeeper at the train depot he opened fire, sending a bullet
into Carter's Arm. Carter, drawing his own revolver, returned fire
and hit
Burrow in the stomach. The
outlaw
later died in the street and Carter recovered the reward.
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