The Complete List of Old West Outlaws - Last Name Begins With "L"

Old West Outlaws - Last Name Begins With "L"

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William Ellsworth "Elza" Lay, aka: Elzy, William McGinnis (1862-1934) - Born in Ohio in 1862, Elza traveled west as a teenager where he met Butch Cassidy while working on a ranch in Wyoming . In April, 1897,he participated in the robbery at Castle Gate, Utah , netting some $8,000. He continued to "work" with the Wild Bunch until the robbery of the Union Pacific train at Wilcox, Wyoming on June 2, 1899.

On July 11, 1899 he robbed a train with the Ketchum Gang in New Mexico. In the process he was injured but still managed to escape. However, the law caught up with him on August 16th and he was tried, convicted, and sent to the New Mexico Territorial prison. In 1906, he was released and went back to Wyoming , settling in Baggs, where he ran a saloon. Several years later, he married, had two daughters and moved to California. He died in Los Angeles in 1934.

William "Billy" Larkin - See William Larkin Stiles

Elza Lay "worked" with both the Wild Bunch

and Ketchum Gangs.

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John M. Larn (1849-1878) - Born in Mobile, Alabama on March 1, 1849, Larn traveled to Colorado as a teenager where he found work as a ranch hand. However, he was almost immediately in trouble when he argued with his boss and shot and killed him sometime around 1869. Fleeing through New Mexico, he killed a sheriff who he thought was trailing him. Next, he went Fort Griffin, Texas, where he got a job as a trail boss and killed two Mexicans and a sheep herder while running his cattle up to Colorado. After he got involved in a tough vigilante group called the Tin Hat Brigade, he allegedly earned so much respect from the town that so badly needed law enforcement, that they elected him sheriff. Larn soon deputized an old friend, John Henry Selman. However, these two were not what they appeared to be. Instead of controlling the area crime, they controlled the vigilantes, rustling cattle and otherwise terrorizing the county. But it did not last long. Those very same vigilantes finally locked Larn in his own jail and shot him to death. More ...

Franklin "Buckskin" Leslie ( 1848?-1925?) - Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Leslie migrated west and was working as a scout for the U.S. Army in Texas, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas during the 1870s. In 1880 he arrived in Tombstone , Arizona, where he worked at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and was allegedly friends with the Earps. Shortly after his arrival, he killed a man named Mike Killeen, whose wife Leslie had been having an affair with. Just a week after the killing, he married her. After the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Earps took refuge at his Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Buckskin Frank Leslie shot and killed Billy Claibourne in Tombstone , Arizona.

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Said to have been an ill-tempered and violent man, he was suspected of having been Johnny Ringo's killer, and did shoot and kill Billy Claiborne on November 14, 1882. He divorced in 1887 and took up with a prostitute by the name of Mollie Williams. Two years later, he shot and killed her. This time, however; he didn't get off, but was sent to the Yuma, Arizona territorial prison. After seven years he was released, remarried and left Arizona. He reportedly settled down to a more peaceful life and made some money in the Klondike Gold Rush before moving on to San Francisco, California in 1904. In 1913, he was running a pool hall in Oakland, California but by 1922, had disappeared from any records and his place and time of death are unknown. More ...

James Andrew "Dick" Liddel (1852-1901) - James Andrew Liddel was born to Milton and Elizabeth Liddil in Jackson County, Missouri on September 15, 1852. In the mid 1870s he did a stint in prison in Mt. Vernon County, Missouri for stealing horses. After he was released he joined up with the James Gang and participated in the Glendale, Missouri train robbery in October, 1879 that netted the bandits some $6,000. In July, 1881, he was with the gang when they robbed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad in Gallatin, Missouri. Just two months later, on September 7, 1881, the bandits hit Glendale again, this time taking some $15,000 of the train.

In December, 1881, Liddel argued with Wood Hite over the attention of the attractive widow, Martha Bolton, the sister of Robert and Charlie Ford. When the disagreement escalated, Robert Ford sided with Liddel and Hite was shot and killed.

When Robert Ford shot and killed Wood Hite,

it led to the killing of Jesse James.

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Liddel turned himself in for the killing and Ford was arrested. To save themselves, Liddel spilled the beans regarding everything he knew of the James Gang's robberies. Ford also made a deal to bring down Jesse James, which he did on April 3, 1882. Later, Liddel would turn states evidence against Frank James but Frank was acquitted in August, 1883. Liddel died in Kentucky on July 13, 1901.

Harvey Alexander Logan, aka: Kid Curry (1865-1904) - Born in Tama County, Iowa, Harvey Logan would grow up to be a rustler, gunman, and bank and train robber, riding with the Wild Bunch. When his mother died in 1876, Harvey, along with brothers, Hank, Johnnie, and Lonnie went to live with their aunt in Dodson, Missouri. Later they were breaking horses in Texas. Harvey's outlaw career would begin when he hired on with a trail herd bound for Pueblo, Colorado. After he got into a saloon brawl in Pueblo, Harvey and his brothers headed for Hole in the Wall, Wyoming , where they met up with they met up with George Curry. Having been known as the "Kid" in Texas, Harvey took George's last name and began to go by "Kid Curry." Later, the brothers had moved on to Montana where Harvey got into a gunfight on December 27, 1894 with a miner named Powell "Pike" Landusky. Though eleven people testified that Curry had killed Pike in self-defense, Curry was afraid of an unfriendly judge and fled back to the Hole-in-the-Wall.

Harvey Logan was better known as "Kid Curry" when

he was riding with the Wild Bunch.

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He then began to rob a number of banks and trains with the Wild Bunch over the next several years. After robbing the Great Northern train near Wagner, Montana in July, 1901, the gang was heavily pursued by the Pinkertons. Soon, Harvey's girlfriend, Annie Rogers, was arrested on October 14, 1901 for for passing bank notes that were stolen in the Great Northern robbery. Annie spent time in jail until she was acquitted on June 18, 1902.

In the meantime, Curry had also been arrested when he got into a bar fight in Knoxville, Tennessee on December 13, 1901. Captured two days later, he was still in jail when Rogers was released. In November, 1902, he was convicted of multiple charges, including forging stolen bank notes and sentenced to 130 years in prison. However, he escaped on June 27, 1903 and a year later, he participated in robbing the Denver & Rio Grande train near Parachute, Colorado on June 7, 1904. Two days later, a posse caught up with the outlaws and in the confrontation, Logan was wounded. However, rather than go to prison, he took his own life. He was 37 years old.

During his lifetime, the Kid was wanted on warrants for fifteen murders, but it was generally known that he had killed more than twice that number. William Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, called Kid Curry the most vicious outlaw in America. "He has not one single redeeming feature," Pinkerton wrote. "He is the only criminal I know of who does not have one single good point." More ...

"Big" Steve Long (18??-1868) - Known mostly as a professional gunman, Long also was a lawman and an outlaw. When outlawry became his main objective in 1868, he was lynched by a vigilante mob in Laramie City, Wyoming on October 28th. More ...

Harry Longabaugh was better known as the Sundance Kid.

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Harry Longabaugh, aka "Sundance Kid," Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry A. Place, Harry Long (1867-1911?) - Born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania in 1867, he was only 15 years-old when he headed west with a cousin. However, by the time he was 20, he stole a gun, a saddle and a horse from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming, only to be almost immediately captured. He was convicted and spent 18 months in jail. After his release he worked as a cowboy before being implicated in an 1892 train robbery by 1897 had hooked up with Harvey Logan where they robbed a bank at Belle Fourche, South Dakota on June 27th. Longabaugh and Logan were captured but managed to escape from Deadwood jail three months later. In 1900, the Sundance Kid met Butch Cassidy and moved to the Robber's Roost in Utah , joining the Wild Bunch.

That same year, they held up the Winnemucca National Bank in Nevada and then headed for South America with their proceeds, all the while being pursued by Pinkertons. On February 20, 1901, Longabaugh sailed with Butch Cassidy and Etta Place to Argentina. Though it is generally accepted that both Butch and Sundance were killed by soldiers in Bolivia in November 1908, some say they both returned to the United States, with Sundance dying around 1936.

William Preston Longley, aka: Wild Bill, Rattling Bill, Tom Jones, Jim Patteson, Jim Webb, Bill Black, Bill Henry, Bill Jackson (1851-1878) - Texas outlaw Bill Longley was from a respectable family, but his hot temper, his fondness for liquor, and unsettled conditions during reconstruction led him to become one of the most daring gunfighters of his day. He is said to have killed 32 persons before he was captured and hanged on October 11, 1878. More ....

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