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Notorious Outlaws of the American West

 

 

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Where law ends,

there tyranny begins.

--  William Pitt

 

 

Complete List of Outlaws

Complete List of Outlaw Gangs

 

Full Articles:

 

Burton Alvord - Lawman Turned Outlaw

The Apache Kid - Outlaw Legend of the Southwest

James Averell - Unjustly Hanged

Bad Men of Texas

Big Nose George Becomes a Pair of Shoes

Billy The Kid - Teenage Outlaw of the Southwest

Billy the Kid - Fatal Shot in the Dark by Pat Garrett

The Bloody Benders of Labette County, Kansas

The Bloody Espinosas - Terrorizing Colorado

Isaac Black - Oklahoma Outlaw

Bill Booth - A Notorious Slayer in Wyoming

Dutch Henry Born - Biggest Horse Thief in the American West

Henry Newton Brown - Robbing the American West

Hoodoo Brown - Dodge City Gang Leader

Cattle Kate - Mystery of a Lynching

Cherokee Bill - Terror of Indian Territory

Outlaw William Coe and His Missing Loot

Bill Cook - Leading the Cook Gang in Oklahoma

Dalton Gang - Deadly Boys of Kansas

Desert Outlaws

The Desperado of the Plains

The Notorious Dodge City Gang of Las Vegas, New Mexico

Robert Ford - Jesse James' Killer

Boone Helm - Murderer, Cannibal & Thief

The Imitation Desperado

John Henry "Doc" Holliday - Deadly Doctor of the West

The Lawless Horrell Boys of Lampasas, Texas

Jesse James - Folklore Hero or Cold-Blooded Killer?

The James-Younger Gang - Terrorism in the Heartland

Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum - Unjustly Hanged

The Land of the Desperado

"Clubfoot" George Lane - Outlaw Shoemaker?

John M. Larn - Vigilante, Outlaw, Lawman

The Lee Gang - Murder and Thievery on the Texas Border

Buckskin Frank Leslie - Another Tombstone Rowdy

Harvey Logan, aka "Kid Curry" - Wildest of the Wild Bunch

Wild Bill Longley - A Dangerous Man in Dangerous Times

The Lynching of "Big Steve" Long

Mysterious Dave Mather - Lawman or Outlaw?

Gunplay Maxwell - Utah Gunfighter & Outlaw

Sherman McMasters - Outlaw or Lawman?

“Doc” Middleton - The King of Horse Thieves

Modern Bad Men - A 1907 Account

Joaquin Murrieta - Patriot or Desperado?

Outlaw Photo Gallery

Outlaws of the Mountains

The Passing Of Peg-Leg

Henry Plummer - Sheriff Meets a Noose

Queho - Renegade Indian Outlaw

The Reno Gang & the First Big Train Robbery

Dirty Dave Rudabaugh - Feared by Billy the Kid

John Selman - Wicked Lawman and Vicious Outlaw

Cyrus Skinner - Gold Field Outlaw

Joseph Slade - Hanged By Vigilantes

Pete Spence - Escaping the Wrath of the Earps

Belle Starr - The Bandit Queen

Henry Starr - Cherokee Bad Boy

Wham Paymaster Robbery Near Pima, Arizona

William "Russian Bill" Tattenbaum, the Noble Outlaw

John Turnow - The Wild Man of the Wynoochee

Big Dave Updyke - Crooked Sheriff of Ada County, Idaho

The Valenzuela Gang of Arizona

Tiburcio Vasquez - California Desperado

Hank Vaughan - The Unhappy Horse Thief

Vigilantes and Bad Men of Arizona

John Joshua Webb - Lawman Turned Outlaw

George “Red Buck” Weightman - Vicious Oklahoma Desperado

Erastus "Red" Yager - Another Innocent Man?

Zip Wyatt - Notorious Oklahoma Hombre

 

Also See:

 

Old West Scoundrels

Outlaw Gangs

Vigilantes

 

"I have no more stomach

 for it."

Tom Horn when he resigned as a lawman

 

 

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Boot Hill in Virginia City, Montana

Virginia City, Montana's first cemetery, referred to as Boot Hill, contains the

 graves of five "road agents" hanged

 by Montana Vigilantes in 1864.

 

 

 

 

Outlaw Treasure Tales:

 

Bandit Loot in Genoa, Nevada

Bronco Bill Loses Against Wells Fargo

Highwaymen of the Railroad

Holden Dick's Stolen Loot

Jack Slade & the Virginia Dale Stage Station

Milton Sharp's Buried Loot

A Murderous Tale of Scandal & Treasure in Galena, Kansas

The Newton Gang and their Lost Loot

The Notorious Fleagle Gang

Outlaw Roy Gardner's Buried Loot

Outlaw Loot Near the Nevada Prison

Portneuf Canyon, Idaho Stage Robbery

Rattlesnake Dick's Stolen Loot

Red Jack Gang in Arizona

Reynolds Gang & the Southpark Treasure

Ruggles Brothers Loot in Middle Creek

A Tragic Affair in Montgomery, Texas

 

John Heath Hanged in Arizona

John Heath lynched in Arizona, courtesy Library of Congress.

This image available for photographic prints HERE!

 

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From the Rocky Mountain General Store

Life Magazine, May, 1959Vintage Magazines - Legends of America and the Rocky Mountain General Store has collected a number of Vintage Magazines, including True West, Frontier Times, Treasure and more for our Old West and Treasure Hunting enthusiasts.  For most of these, we have only one available.  To see this varied collection, click HERE!

Frontier Times, March 1968    True West Magazine, February, 1967    Frontier Times, July, 1973    True West Magazine, August, 1972    True West Magazine, December, 1967

 

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