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Tag: Outlaws

Stagecoach holdup reenactment

How to Rob a Stagecoach — Courtesy of Black Bart

by Daniel Seligman9/29/20239/29/2023

Perhaps the legendary highwayman should have written a handbook, as many an outlaw tried his hand at it and failed.

Just How Dirty Was “Dirty Dave” Rudabaugh?

by Gregory Lalire7/10/20236/28/2023
Painting of authorities on horseback transporting two suspects

Three Suspects Eventually Paid for This Senseless, Savage Murder Along the Snake River

by Kevin Carson6/16/20235/31/2023
street scene in Mayville, North Dakota

He Was Shot in the Head Over Booze in this Prohibition State. His Killers Walked Free.

by Ellen Notbohm4/17/20234/17/2023
Kid Curry seated in Deadwood jail

He Rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Was He the Deadliest Member of the Wild Bunch?

by Mark T. Smokov3/31/20233/28/2023
"Big Nose George" Parott

After This Infamous Outlaw Was Lynched, the Governor of Wyoming Had His Skin Made Into a Pair of Shoes

by Candy Moulton2/17/20232/17/2023

Did This 19th-Century Man Go Too Far to Protect … a Dam?

by Greg Lalire11/1/202211/1/2022
The "Fort Worth Five," Butch Cassidy and members of his Wild Bunch gang, pose in 1900 for Fort Worth photographer John Swartz.

Was the Wild Bunch’s Kid Curry Really a Psychopath?

by Gregory Lalire9/29/20229/29/2022
The "Fort Worth Five," Butch Cassidy and members of his Wild Bunch gang, pose in 1900 for Fort Worth photographer John Swartz.

Who Shot The Iconic ‘Fort Worth Five’ Photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

by Richard Selcer and Donna Donnell9/21/20229/21/2022

These Outlaw Brothers Met Their End By Vigilante Justice

by Matthew Bernstein8/26/20228/26/2022

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