The Complete List of Old West Outlaws - Last Name Beginning with "H"

Old West Outlaws - Last Name Begins With "H"

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Silas Hampton (1868-1887) - Near the town of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, 18-year-old Cherokee Indian, Silas Hampton, robbed and killed a farmer by the name of Abner N. Lloyd on December 9, 1886. Having made off with only $7.50, the foolish young man purchased a bright red handkerchief and a few other small items which he proudly displayed to his friends. He was soon arrested and as he was led away, he pleaded with the marshals, "Don't take me to Fort Smith; kill me right now!" His pleading was to no avail. He was soon shipped off to Fort Smith, where he was found guilty by Judge Isaac Parker. He was hanged on October 7, 1887.

John Wesley (Wes) Hardin (1853-1895) – Known as Texas’ most deadly gunman, Hardin killed over thirty people. Captured by Texas Rangers John Armstrong and John Riley Duncan in 1877, he was released in 1894 after eighteen years in prison. Just one year later, Hardin was shot and killed on August 19, 1895 by John Henry Selman. Selman, an outlaw-turned-lawman had a grudge against Hardin and surprised him in El Paso’s Acme Saloon. John Selman was himself, gunned down just a year later. Hardin is buried at the Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas. Ironically, Hardin's killer – John Selman is buried just a few feet away. More ...

John Wesley Hardin

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Pearl Hart became famous after robbing

a stagecoach near Globe, Arizona.

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Pearl Hart, aka: Pearl Bywater, Pearl Taylor, Mrs. L.P. Keele (1871-19??) - Born as Pearl Taylor of French descent in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, this petite and attractive young girl would grow up to become one of the only female stagecoach robbers in the American West. After marrying a seductive gambler when she was just 17, the pair attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893 where Pearl became enamored of the Old West when she attended several Wild West type shows. She soon left her husband, heading through Colorado and finally to Arizona, where she hooked up with a miner named Joe Boot.

Among other smaller petty crimes, the pair robbed a stagecoach between Florence and Globe, Arizona on May 30, 1899. Taking about $450 and a revolver, they were soon apprehended and Hart spent two years in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Though her life of crime was short-lived, she became a legend known as the "lady bandit." After being released she went to Kansas City and the rest of her life is blurred in history. More ...

L. B. Hasbrouck (18??-1874) - A horse thief operating in Kansas, Hasbrouck was captured 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 Hasbrouck, along with two other horse thieves by the names of William "Billy" L. Brooks and Charlie Smith.

Samuel Hassells, aka: Bob Hays (18??-1869) - Born in Laporte, Iowa, Hassels headed westward when he was still a young man. He soon hooked up with several outlaw gangs, committing robberies throughout Texas in the 1860's. The law finally caught up with him in Gonzales County, Texas and he was sentenced to a five-year prison term in Huntsville. However, just four months shy of completing his term, he escaped. He went on to join up with a another gang in New Mexico that robbed a post office in Separ in October, 1869. The next month, on November 28, 1869, a posse caught up with the men at the Diamond A Ranch, about sixty miles south of Separ. In the inevitable gunfight that ensued, Hassells was killed.

John Heath (1844-1884) - Hailing from Texas, Heath became involved in rustling and robbery when he was still very young. Later, he became a deputy sheriff in Cochise County, Texas for a brief time, but found that the pay was not nearly as good as thievery. He soon resigned and went back to his outlaw ways. Somewhere along the line, John moved to Bisbee, Arizona, where he opened a saloon, that became a haven for desperate characters. He masterminded a plan to rob a local store, but didn't participate in the robbery. The other five men, during the crime, left behind four dead. All six were convicted, but Heath received a life sentence, while the others were sentenced to hang. However, Bisbee citizens, enraged over the verdict, dragged him from the Tombstone jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole on February 22, 1884. Public approval of the hanging was reflected in the verdict of the coroner's jury: "We the undersigned, a jury of inquest, find that John Heath came to his death from emphysema of the lungs--a disease common in high altitudes--which might have been caused by strangulation, self-inflicted or otherwise." More ...

John Heath was hanged by vigilantes in Tombstone, Arizona.

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Marion Hedgepeth Marion Hedgepeth (1856-1910) - Known as the "Handsome Bandit," the "Debonair Bandit," and the "Montana Bandit," Hedgepeth, was born in Prairie Home, Missouri on April 14, 1856. Running away from home at the age of 15, he was an outlaw by the time he was 20, having killed in Colorado and Wyoming , as well as robbing trains. On October 7, 1890 he robbed a train in Glendale, Missouri escaping with some $10,000. After being relentlessly pursued by the Pinkertons, he was finally arrested in San Francisco, California and brought back to Missouri for trial. Convicted, he was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Missouri State Prison. After his release he was shot and killed by a ChicagoPoliceman on December 31, 1910.

Boone Helm (1823-1864) - From an early age Helm was already showing his true colors when he stabbed to death a man named Littleburg in his hometown of Log Branch, Missouri. Still in his teens, he fled westward. By the 1850’s he was sometimes prospecting for gold in California. More often, he was taking the easy road; however, and robbing the other miners of their finds.

In 1858, he reportedly shot a miner in California and fled the scene once again, this time landing in Oregon, where he became a mountain man for a time before moving on once again to Utah. There, he hired out his gun to the highest bidder and took part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Before long, he had earned such a terrible reputation that he was described using such terms as low, coarse, cruel and was called an “animal ruffian.”

By the time Helm joined Henry Plummer's Gang of Innocents, he was a much feared outlaw in the territory. Along with the gang of road agents, Helm was guilty of robbing and killing throughout Idaho and Montana, using a number of aliases. Finally, Montana Vigilantes had had enough and began to track down the evil-doers, capturing and hanging them.

He used many aliases while hiding out in the Montana mining camps, but was finally captured along with ''Three-Fingered Jack" Gallagher, Hayes Lyons, George "Clubfoot" Lane, and Frank Parish in Virginia City, Montana. All five men were placed on boxes with ropes around their necks on January 14, 1864. When Gallagher was hanged first, Helm, who was a little drunk shouted: "Kick away, old fellow, I'll be in hell with you in a minute!" He then displayed his forever ending loyalty to the Confederacy by shouting: "Every man for his principles! Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Let her rip!" before the box was kicked out from underneath him and he too was hanging next to Gallagher. All five men are buried in Virginia City's Boot Hill Cemetery. More ...

Clarence Browler Hite (1862-1883) - Born in Logan County, Kentucky to George B. Hite and Nancy James Hite, Clarence was the first cousin of Frank and Jesse James. Hite joined the James Gang, where he is credited with participating in the Blue Cut, Missouri train robbery, as well as commandeering the train engine at the Winston, Missouri robbery in 1881. On February 11, 1882, he was arrested in Kentucky for the Winston robbery and returned to Missouri. He plead guilty on July 15th, rather than go through a trial, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Shortly after he was released, he died of tuberculosis.

Robert Woodson "Wood" Hite (1850-1882) - The first cousin of Frank and Jesse James, Wood rode for "Bloody Bill" Anderson during the violent Kansas-Missouri border war. Later, both he and his brother, Clarence, joined the James Gang, where he was thought to have participated in the Blue Cut, Missouri train robbery on October 8, 1879, the hold up of the Riverton, Iowa bank on July 10, 1881, the Glendale, Missouri train robbery on September 7, 1881. Just months later, in December, Wood, who had a romantic attachment to Bob Ford's widowed sister, Martha Bolton, argued with Dick Liddel over her affections. When the disagreement escalated, Robert Ford sided with Liddel and Hite was shot and killed. Liddel turned himself in for the killing and Ford was arrested. The entire affair would lead to Jesse James death, when Ford made a deal with Governor Thomas T. Crittendon that he would be pardoned for the murder of Hite if he were to capture or kill James.

Thomas J. Hodges, aka: Tom Bell, The Outlaw Doc (1825-1856) - Raised in an upstanding family in Tenessee, Hodges received a good education and became a surgeon after finishing medical school. He served in the Mexican-American War and afterwards traveled to California to seek his fortune in the Gold Rush. Failing as a prospector, he turned to robbery and in 1855 served a year in Angel Island Prison. While there he met Bill Gristy and when the pair were released they formed an outlaw gang of five men and began robbing stages for several months. After killing a woman and two men in an unsuccessful robbery attempt, the gang was doggedly pursued by posses and vigilantes. Tom was finally tracked down by a vigilante group near the Merced River on October 4, 1856. By the time the Stockton Sheriff arrived, he found Bell hanged from a tree outside Nevada City, California.

Tom Horn, aka: James Hicks (1861-1903) - Born in Memphis, Missouri on November 21, 1861, Horn's father was a strict disciplinarian and Tom ran away at the age of 14, heading west. By the time he was 15 he was an army scout and involved in many campaigns for more than a decade, including Geronimo's surrender in 1886. He then wandered through the gold fields and became a ranch hand. In 1890, he joined the Pinkerton Agency Agency and using his gun with lethal effectiveness tracked down dozens of outlaws and killed 17 men. In 1894, he had made his way to Wyoming as was working as a cattle detective for the beef barons, who were engulfed in what is known as the Johnson County War. It was at this time that he began to offer out his services as a hired gunslinger. For each cattle rustler he shot, he charged $500-$600 and quickly proved to be a methodical man hunter and ruthless killer.

Tom Horn makes his own rope to be hanged in 1903.

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Changing tracks in 1898, he joined the cavalry in support of the Spanish-American War, where he was in charge of Teddy Roosevelt's pack trains. Afterwards, Horn returned to his murdering ways and when he was hired to kill a sheepherder, killed his 14-year old son instead. This time, Horn didn't get away with it -- he was arrested and hanged on November 20, 1903.

Joe Horner - See Frank Canton

Ned Huddleston - See Isom Dart

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