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Gibson Ishtanubbee (18??-1876) - Gibson Ishtanubbee was an
iterant drifter working his way through the Chickasaw Nation near
Stonewall, Mississippi in 1873. Along with another drifter by the name
of Isham Seely, the pair arrived at the door of a farmer who was
called "Squirrel" Funny. The farmer, who lived with his black
housekeeper and a cook in a small cabin, answered a knock on the door
to find the two men who asked if they might be allowed to spend the
night before continuing their travels the next day. As was tradition
at the time, the farmer agreed and showed them where they might sleep.
However, just before dawn the next morning, Istanubbee drove an ax
into Funny's skull while he slept while Selly beat the housekeeper to
death with a pistol Afterwards, the two looted the house, before
fleeing. They did not get far and were soon arrested. Taken to stand
trial in
Fort Smith,
Arkansas,
Judge
Isaac Parker sentenced them both to death. Both were hanged
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Frank Jackson, aka:
Blockey (1856-1878?) - Born in
Texas
in 1856, Jackson was orphaned as a boy and was trained to be a tinsmith.
However, he was not very interested in the profession and by the time he
was twenty he was working as a cowboy on the Murphy Ranch in Denton,
Texas
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The Murphy Ranch also just happened to be one of Sam Bass' hideouts.
Frank's first foray into the outlaw life was when he murdered a man named
Henry Goodall, a black man accused of horse theft. After the two got into
an argument, Jackson shot Goodall and cut his throat. Officially an
"outlaw" he then joined the Sam Bass Gang in robbing banks and trains.
However, when they went to rob a bank in Round Rock,
Texas
on September 20, 1878, the
Texas Rangers,
who had been tipped off, were waiting for them.
In
the inevitable gunfight, gang member
Seaborn Barnes was shot in the head and
Bass was
severely wounded. Though
Bass was
severely wounded, he made it to his horse and rode out of town along with
the help of Frank Jackson. The next day Bass was found lying
helpless in a pasture north of town
and was brought back to Round Rock where he died without telling the
authorities anything about where Jackson was headed. Afterwards, Frank
Jackson made the ultimate escape and was never heard from again.
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Alexander Franklin "Frank"
James, a/k/a “Buck” (1843-1915)
-Frank was the older brother of
Jesse
James, riding with the
James-Younger Gang gang on most of their robberies. Born in Clay
County,
Missouri on January 10, 1843,
he and his brother
Jesse
were brought up by their mother after their father left for the
California
gold fields and never returned. Slave owners, the family supported the
Confederate cause during the
Civil War and when
William
Quantrill established a band of guerilla fighters, both Frank and
Jesse
joined him.
Frank was with
Quantrill's Raiders on August 21, 1863 when they ransacked and
burned the town of
Lawrence,
Kansas,
killing 150 people. |

Frank James
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Afterward the war he and
Jesse
began their rampage of thievery and murder.
After
Jesse was
killed, he surrendered to authorities in 1882. He was tried
and acquitted by a sympathetic
Missouri
jury. The last thirty years of Frank James' life saw him not as an
illustrious
outlaw
but as a farmer, shoe salesman, race track starter, and directed a
Wild West
show. Frank died quietly in 1915 and is buried at Hill Park Cemetery
in
Independence,
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Jesse James in Platte City,
Missouri
in 1864
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Jesse Woodson James
(1847-1882)
– Born in
Clay County,
Missouri
on September 5, 1847, he and his brother Frank were brought up by
their mother after their father left for the
California
gold fields and never returned. Slave owners, the family
supported the Confederate cause during the
Civil War and when William
Quantrill
established a band of guerilla fighters, both
Frank and
Jesse
joined him. After the war,
Jesse
became the
famous
outlaw and leader of the
James-Younger Gang, robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains for the
next sixteen years.
On April 3, 1882,
Robert (Bob) Ford and his brother
Charles called upon
Jesse
at his home in
St. Joseph,
Missouri.
The brothers had joined the
James Gang and while
Jesse
was laying out his plans for the next holdup, he turned to adjust a
picture on the wall. While his back was turned,
Bob Ford shot him from behind.
James
was 34 years-old.
Ford was forever after known as “that dirty little coward.”
His brother
Charles, so feared for his life by retribution by
Frank James,
that he committed suicide just two years later.
Bob Ford, was himself, shot in 1892.
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Alphonso J. "Al" Jennings
(1863-1961) - Born in Virginia in 1863, Jennings and his family
moved to
Oklahoma
and settling at El Reno. When he grew up, he attended law school and
served as a prosecuting attorney in Canadian County from 1892 to 1894. He
then joined his brothers, Ed and John in a law practice at Woodward,
Oklahoma
in 1895. In October of that year, his brother Ed and John were involved in
a shootout with a rival attorney named Temple Lea Houston. When the smoke
cleared, Ed was dead and John was wounded. When Houston, who was the son
of one of
Texas '
greatest hero's Sam Houston, was acquitted for murder the next year, Al
left Woodward and along with another brother, Frank, the two went to work
as
cowboys.
Before long, Al and Frank decided to turn to a life of crime. Joined by
former
Doolin Gang member
"Little Dick" West, his brother Frank, and brothers Morris and Pat
O'Malley, the "Jennings
Gang" planned their first train robbery on the night of August 16,
1897. Howeve4r, after stopping the train at Edmond, they found it
impossible to shoot or blast the safe open. A few nights later they tried
to flag down another train by standing in the center of the tracks, but
the engineer kept his hand on the throttle and roared forward, with
Jennings leaping out of the way at the last moment. Another attempt a few
days later had the same results. On October 1st, they tried again, blowing
up a baggage car on a train stopped for water eight miles south of Minco,
Oklahoma .
When no money was found in the safe, they proceeded to rob the passengers.
Miserable failures at train robbery, the gang then turned to robbing a
store in Cushing,
Oklahoma
on October 29, 1897. Netting only $15, the failed gang split up. In
December, 1897, Al and his brother Frank were captured by U.S. Deputy Bud
Ledbetter. In 1899 he was sentenced to life in prison, but due to the
legal efforts of his brother, John, the sentence was reduced to five
years. He then became active in politics and publishing his biography,
Beating Back, in 1913, he won votes campaigning honestly about his
past. Later he moved to California and worked in the movie industry making
Westerns and telling much exagerrated tales of his ribald "outlaw"
past. He died in Tarzana,
California,
on December 26, 1961.
"Arkansas Tom"
Jones - See
Roy Daugherty
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From the Rocky Mountain General Store
From
Hardtack to Home Fries
by Barbara Haber
Culinary
historian Barbara Haber takes a unique approach to the history of cooking
in America, focusing on a remarkable assembly of little-known or forgotten
Americans who helped shape the eating habits of the nation. As Curator of
Books at Harvard University's Schlesinger Library, Haber had access to
more than 16,000 cookbooks from which she has drawn inspiring and often
surprising stories of the way meals have shaped America's past. Peppered
throughout with recipes, Haber's fascinating survey adds a delicious new
dimension to America's cultural heritage. New, paperback.
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