( 1887 - January 1. January 2, 1887 - U.S. leases:

A) Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: I. As a Naval Station.

( February 1887 to 1892 (5 Years)

The Pleasant Valley war or

The Graham-Tewksbury Feud 1. Pleasant Valley:

A) Tonto Basin of Central Arizona: I. At the foot of the Mogollon Mountains. II. Entirely surrounded by mountains.

B) The Valley is a haven for cattle thieves and many wanted men!

I. The rim of the Mogollon Mountains is called "The Dead Line": a. South of it, Sheep are not allowed into

the Valley! C) Primary settlers of the Valley:

I. The Graham Family: a. Tom, .John, and William .Jr. are brothers

from Iowa. b. 1882 - Arrive in Pleasant Valley. c. Build a ranch on Cherry Creek. d. Tom is the leader during the war. e. Family will be wiped out except for the

women. II. The Tewksbury Family:

a • .John Sr. - .John .Jr. - Edwin - .Jim. b. Walter & Parker are the youngest 2

sons:

(1) They will take no active part in the war.

c. Family comes to Arizona in 1880. d. Build a ranch on Cherry Creek in

Pleasant Valley: (1) Is 10 miles southeast of the

Graham Ranch. e. Only John Jr. will be killed in the

war. III. The Blevins Family:

a. Matt (Father) - John - Charles -Hampton - Sam - Andy.

b. Andy uses the alias of "Andy Cooper" because he is wanted in Texas: (1) He is fast and accurate with a

hand gun. (2) He is treacherous, cruel,

dangerous, a cold-blooded killer, and leader of a gang of ca~tle thieves in Pleasant Valley!

c. Build a ranch on Canyon Creek. d. Will side with the Grahams in the

war. e. Only John will survive!

IV. Jim Stinson. V. William Middleton. VI. James "Jim" Roberts:

a. Bom in Missouri in 1858.

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b. Owns a cattle and horse ranch in Pleasant Valley.

c. Best stallion will be stolen - Will blame the Grahams.

d. Cabin will be bumt - Will blame the Grahams.

e. He will be the Tewksbury's best fighting man!

VII. W.H. Bishop. VIII. George Blaine. IX. William Richards. X. Tom Houdon:

a. Ranch at Spring Creek crossing 9 miles southwest of Pleasant Valley.

XI. Joseph Boyer. XII. George Newton:

a. Sides with the Grahams. b. Ranch is called "The Flying V."

XIII. Jacob Lauffer. XIV. George Wagner. xv. William Jacobs. XVI. AI & Ed Rose. XVII. The Aztec Land and Cattle Company:

a. Called "The Hash Knife Outfit." b. Located on the Little Colorado

River opposite of St. Joseph: (1) West of Holbrook, Arizona.

c. Run 60,000 head of cattle.

( d. Will never be financially successful. e. Owners will take no active part in

the war. f. Many of the cowboys will side with

the Grahams: (1) Buck Lancaster - George Smith -

Tom Tucker - .John Paine -Robert Glasspie.

(2) Tom Pickett ••••• Gunfighter and participant in the Lincoln County War.

(3) Roxy - Peck - and McNeal ••••• all are killers!

( 2. Siding with the Grahams are: A) AI and Ed Rose - Own a ranch. B) Charley Duchet - French gunfighter:

I. Self-appointed bodyguard to Tom Graham.

3. The primary areas of importance in the Valley during the War: A) The Middleton Ranch - 10 miles north of the

Tewksbury Ranch. B) The Perkin's Store - Near the Graham and

Rose ranches. C) The Rose Ranch. D) The Houdon Ranch.

E) The Stott Cabin - At Bear Spring. F) The Blevins Ranch. G) The Graham Ranch. H) The Tewksbury Ranch.

4. At first the Grahams and the Tewksburys are friends: A) Partners in stealing cattle! B) Argument over stolen cattle profits! C) Tewksburys claim the Grahams are

cheating them! D) Hatred develops! E) Both families tum the other in for stealing

cattle! ( F) Both sides are acquitted!

5. 1886 - John Gilliland, Graham man, is out hunting for missing horses:

A) Meets Ed Tewksbury - Both men are on foot: I. Accuses Tewksbury of stealing the

horses! II. Denial! III. Argument! IV. Guns drawn - Firing:

a. Gilliland is wounded in the leg. V. Both men run away!

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A) Are the largest sheep owners in Northern Arizona: I. Want Pleasant Valley as a winter range. II. Hear of the hatred between the Grahams

and the Tewksburys. III. Offer the Tewksburys a share of the

profits if they will protect the sheep in Pleasant Valley.

IV. Tewksburys agree -It will give them a chance to gat back at the Grahams.

B) The sheep are driven over the "Dead Line" into Pleasant Valley: I. The war is on.

7. Tom Graham tells his followers there is to be no killings: A) Waming shots are fired at sheepherders. B) The Hash Knife cowboys enter the valley at

night: I. Stampede and kill the sheep.

8. February 1887 - A Navajo sheepherder is found murdered: A) He is the 1st fatality of the war.

9. Spring of 1887 - The Tewksburys drive the sheep out of the valley:

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A) Are in a rage because: I. Of the loss of money over the sheep

killed. II. They hold the Grahams responsible!

10. Mart Blevins has taken no active part in the sheep raids, BUT, his 5 sons have:

A) One day he simply disappears! B) 3 years later his skeleton is found:

I. Has a railroad spike driven through the skull!

C) The Graham faction suspects the Tewksburys are responsible from the beginning!

11. One week after Mart Blevins disappearance -August 10, 1887 - The Middleton Ranch Fight:

A) Hamp Blevins - .John Paine - Tom Tucker -Bob Glasspie - Robert Carrington and 3 Graham cowboys leave the Graham Ranch looking for trouble:

I. 12:00 - Noon - Ride up to the Middleton Ranch.

II. 6 Tewksbury men in the house. III • .Jim Tewksbury steps from the house. IV. Tom Tucker asks him for lunch! V. NO!

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VI. The men turn to ride off. B) .Jim Roberts fires from the house hitting

Hamp Blevins in the back of the head killing him instantly: I • .Jim Tewksbury fires and hits .John Paine

killing him. II. Tom Tucker is shot through the right lung

but will get away. III. Glasspie and Carrington receive flesh

wounds but get away. IV. Entire episode has lasted 10 seconds:

a. 5 of the 8 Graham men have been hit! b. 2 are dead!

C) From this moment on the war becomes: I. A life for a life! II. Everyone in the Valley is forced to take a

side. III. Nobody in the Valley is allowed to stay

neutral! IV. Death will be everywhere!

12. News of the killings reach Prescott, Arizona: A) Sheriff Mulvenon of Yavapai County gets

warrants for the arrest of the men responsible: I. Sets out for the Valley with a large

posse.

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gunfighter: A) Tewksbury supporter! B) Deputy Sheriff under Commodore Perry

Owens of Apache County. C) Will use his badge to legally fight and kill

for the Tewksburys!

14. August 17, 1887 - Houck is scouting Pleasant Valley for Graham supporters:

A) Waits in ambush on a hillside beside the trail leading from Payson to the Graham Ranch.

B) 22 year old, Billy Graham comes riding along returning from Payson:

I. Happy-go-lucky. II. Has taken no part in the feud. III. Youngest member of the family.

C) Houck shoots him with a .45: I. Horse runs the 3 % miles home with

Graham slumped over the saddle hom. II. Dies the next day!

15. August 23, 1887 - At Payson, Arizona -Mulvenon's posse Is joined by:

A) Sheriff, John Francis, of Flagstaff. B) Constable, E.F. Odell of Flagstaff. C) John Weatherford and Fletcher Fairchild of

( Flagstaff: I. Group heads for Pleasant Valley.

D) Find the Tewksbury Ranch deserted: I. No trace of the Tewksburys or their

followers. E) Stop at the Perkins Store:

I ... oined by a party of Graham followers led by Andy Blevins.

F) Everybody goes home - Complete failurel

16. Posse leaves - Tewksburys retum!1

17. Snipings start againl

( 18. Grahams average 20 supporters -Tewksburys never average more than 8.

19. September 2, 1887 - Early moming - The Tewksbury Ranch Fight:

A) Graham force led by Tom Graham, John Graham, and Andy Blevins:

I. Surround the Tewksbury Ranch. B) John Tewksbury and William Jacobs are

retuming to the Ranch: I. Ambushed by Andy Blevins:

a. Jacobs is shot 3 times in the back breaking his spine 3 times and killing him!

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C) Tewksbury is shot in the back of the neck with a .45 and has his head crushed ••••• Dead!

D) The Graham Forces charge the ranch: I. Repulsed by the gunfire of:

a. Ed Tewksbury. b • .John Tewksbury Sr. c • .Jim Tewksbury. d • .Jim Roberts.

E) Becomes a siege: I. Hogs start eating .John Tewksbury .Jr. and

William Jacobs! F) Widow of John .Jr. goes outside:

I. Firing stops! II. She buries the bodies! III. Goes back inside! IV. Firing continuesl

G) Evening - .John Meadows, .Justice of the Peace for Payson, arrives with some men:

I. Graham Forces flee. II. Siege is over!

20. September 4, 1887 - The Holbrook Fight: A) Andy Blevins is in Holbrook bragging about

the Tewksbury Ranch Fight: I. Has a few drinks. II. Goes to his mother's house.

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B) Afternoon: I. Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens of

Apache County, arrives in town with a warrant for Blevins arrest on horse stealing: a. Owens:

(1) 35 years old. (2) Former cowboy in Texas and New

Mexico. (3) 5 feet 10 inches tall- Muscular. (4) Long hair. (5) Likes to wear chaps and a wide

brimmed hat. (6) Excellent shot with a rifle or Colt

.45! C) .John Blevins sees Owens ride into town:

I. Goes to the house and tells Andy. II. Owens puts his horse in the stable and

heads for the Blevins house. III. In the house are: Andy Blevins - .John

Blevins - Sam Blevins - and Mose Roberts.

D) Owens walks up on the porch and orders Andy outside: I. With a gun in his hand, Andy ducks into a

rooml II • .John Blevins walks to the other porch

door with a gun in his hand.

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III. Words are exchanged. IV. At the same time, Owens and Andy fire

at each other. V. Andy misses. VI. Owens hits Andy in the stomach! VII. Andy staggers backward into the room. VIII • .John Blevins fires at Owens and

misses. IX. Owens turns - Fires at .John Blevins -

Hits him in the shoulder knocking him back into the house.

X. Owens runs into the street and takes cover behind a wagon.

XI. At the northeast comer of the house -Roberts jumps through the window firing at Owens but missing.

XII. Owens fires and hits Roberts who staggers back into the house and collapses on the bed!

XUI. 16 year old, Sam Blevins, grabs Andy's gun and charges out the front door! a. Owens shoots him in the heart

killing him! XIV. All of this has taken place in 1 minute! XV. House is a bloody mess:

a. Roberts is dead on the bed! b. Sam Blevins is dead in the doorway! c. Andy Blevins is dead on the bedroom

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floor! d • .John Blevins is covered in blood -

Wounded - Sitting in a chair! (1) He will recover, BUT, the other 3

Graham Men are dead!

21. September 16, 1887 - A Graham scout reports several Tewksbury men camped on Cherry Creek:

A) Below the Tewksbury Ranch. B) Plans are made for an early moming raid. C) Night - Graham men take up positions

around the Tewksbury camp.

22. September 17, 1887 - Battle of the Tewksbury Camp:

A) Dawn - Graham men charge through the Camp on horseback firing: I. Hit nobody! II • .Jim Roberts and .Jim Tewksbury fire

back: a. Wound .Joe Underwood in the calf of

the leg. b. Hit Harry Middleton in the body:

(1) He dies 2 days later! B) Graham men flee!!!

23. Sheriff Mulvenon is ordered back to Pleasant

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Valley to stop the bloodshed: A) With 20 men he heads for the Valley.

24. September 21, 1887 - Posse reaches Perkin's Store:

A) Hide the horses. B) Spend the night hiding in the store.

25. September 22, 1887 - The Battle of Perkin's Store:

A) Posse sets up an ambush. B) Hide behind a 6 foot tall stone wall. C) Charles Blevins and .John Graham ride up to

the store: I. It is quiet. II. Ride over to the wall. III. Mulvenon stands up with a double-barrel

shotgun. IV. Blevins and Graham reach for their

pistols. V. Mulvenon fires both barrels and the

entire Posse fires at the same time. VI. 'oth men are blown out of their saddles

dead! D) Posse heads for the Graham Ranch:

I. No one there! E) Ride to the AI Rose Ranch:

I. He surrenders.

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F) Ride to the Tewksbury Ranch: I. Surrendering are:

a. Ed Tewksbury. b • .Jim Tewksbury. c. George Newton. d • .Jim Roberts. e. George Wagner. f • .Joe Boyer. g • .Jake Lauffer.

G) Posse is joined by Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens and 30 more men: I. Search for the Grahams and their

followers. II. Can't find anyone! III. Retum to Prescott with their prisoners.

H) AI Rose is released. I) The Tewksbury group is released on ball • .J) EVERYBODY heads back to Pleasant Valley!

26. Things are pretty quiet: A) Few solitary ambushes and killings. B) NO pitched battles or raids.

27. October 8, 1887 - Tempe, Arizona - 33 year old, Tom Graham marries 17 year old, Anne Melton.

( 28. October 16, 1887 - Graham voluntarily

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surrenders to Mulvenon in Payson: A) Not indictedl B) Releasedl C) He and his wife go back to Pleasant Valley.

29. Courts do not indict either the Grahams or the Tewksburys.

30. War becomes ambushes and assassinations: A) Men killed ~n lonely trails. B) Men killed late at night at their cabins.

31. November 1887 - Spring Creek - Near the Houdon Ranch - AI Rose is looking for horse:

A) Glenn Reynolds shoots him in the back with a double-barrel shotgun killing him!

32. Jim Stott owns a ranch at Bear Springs in the Mogollon Mountains - 60 miles south of Holbrook:

A) Runs cattle and horses. B) Doesn't side with either the Grahams or the

Tewksburys. C) Staying with Stott are prospector, Billy

Wilson, and Hash Knife cowboy, Jim Scott.

33. Corrupt, Jim Houck, wants Stott's Ranch to raise cattle and sheep!!

( 34. August 1888 - Houck and 25 Tewksbury men - "Posse" - False arrest warrants for horse stealing:

A) Lynch Stott, Scott, and Wilson!

35. December 6, 1888 - Globe, Arizona - .Jim Tewksbury dies of tuberculosis.

36. Anne Graham pleads with her husband, Tom, to leave Pleasant Valley:

A) Summer - 1889 - Move to a farm near Tempe.

37. Tewksburys gain control of Pleasant Valley: ( A) BUT, no more sheep are brought inl

38. September 1891 - George Newton, a Tewksbury man, is on his way home from Globe:

A) Disappears - Never seen or heard from again!

39. August 2, 1892 - Tom Graham is hauling grain from his farm to Tempe:

A) Shot in the back from ambush! B) On his deathbed - Claims .John Rhodes, a

Tewksbury man, has shot him while Ed Tewksbury looks on:

( I. Dies that aftemoon! C) Both men are arrested:

I. At Rhode's hearing - Anne Graham attempts to shoot Rhodes with her dead husband's .44: a. Mis-fires! b. Rhodes Is released.

II. Ed Tewksbury Is convicted of murder: a. Discrepancy In Indictment. b. New trial Is granted. c. Released on bail after 2 % years. d. Never re-tried!

40. The Feud Is over: ( A) 28 to 3" men have been killed!

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41. Ed Tewksbury: A) Retums to Pleasant Valley - Sells out -

Moves to Globe. B) Constable and Deputy Sheriff of Globe. C) April 4, 1904 - Dies of tuberculosis.

42. Commodore Perry Owens: A) Sheriff of Apache County - Kills outlaw, Ike

Clanton. B) May 10, 1919 - Seligman - Dies. C) Buried in Flagstaff.

( 43 • .John Blevins: A) Phoenix - 1920's - Killed in an automobile

accident.

44. Charley Duchet: A) Leaves Pleasant Valley. B) 1925 - Phoenix - Dies.

45. Tom Tucker: A) Leaves Pleasant Valley. B) 1890's - Under Sheriff of Santa Fe, New

Mexico. C) 1926 - Texas - Dies.

( 46 • .Jim Stinson: A) .January 8, 1932 - Kline, Colorado - At age

94 - Dies.

47. Tom Pickett: A) Leaves Pleasant Valley. B) Gold Rush - Goes to Nevada. C) U.S. Deputy Marshal. D) 1930's - Dies.

48 • .Jim Roberts: A) 1892 - Constable of .Jerome. B) 1904 - Town Marshal of .Jerome. C) 1928 - Sheriff of Clarkdale:

( I. ~une 21 st - Walking along sidewalk. II. Bank is robbed by Willard Forrester and

Earl Nelson. III. Car driving away. IV. Pulls single-action Colt .45 and fires. V. Hits the driver, Forrester in the head

killing hillli VI. Car crashes. VII. Nelson surrenders.

D) Monday - ~anuary 8, 1934 -11:00 - Night­On duty - Age 75 - Heart attack and diesl

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\, 1888 1. Start of heavy Japanese migration to Hawaii:

A) Will last for 10 years.

2. Iron & Steel exports jump 23%: A) Increase will go on for 10 years.

3. Edward Bellamy: A) Writer. B) Writes Utopian novel "Looking Backward."

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1888 The -Jaybird-Woodpecker Feud

1. Where: A) Fort Bend County - Southwest of Houston,

Texas.

2. 1888: A) County is filled with political and racial

tensions. B) .Jaybird's:

I. Want white supremacy. II. Leader is H.H. Frost:

(1) Owns 2 bars. C) Woodpecker's:

I. Support blacks in the county. II. Leader is .Judge, C.W. Parker, and Sheriff,

.Jim Garvey.

3. August 2, 1888: A) .J.H. Shamblin:

I. Wealthy planter. II • .Jaybird organizer.

B) Shot to death: I. By black followers of the Woodpeckers.

4. September 1888: A) H.H. Frost is nearly killed by black

followers of the Woodpeckers.

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B) Results: I. Blacks are expelled from leadership in the

county. II. BUT, in the fall election ••••• Woodpeckers

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5 • .Jaybird, Ned Gibson is shot and killed by Woodpecker, Kyle Terry.

6. August 16, 1889: A) Richmond, Texas. B) Street in front of the courthouse. C) Gunfight:

I. 2 Woodpeckers are killed: (1) Sheriff .Jim Garvey and .Jake Blakley.

II. 1 .Jaybird is killed: (1) H.H. Frost.

III. 1 innocent bystander is killed. IV. 6 people are wounded.

7. Woodpeckers finally leave the county.

8 • .January 21, 1890: A) Galveston, Texas. B) Courthouse. C) Woodpecker, Kyle Terry, is walking up the

steps: I. His trial for killing Ned Gibson.

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D) ~aybird, Volney Gibson, steps forward: I. Shoots him through the heart killing him. II. He is the last violent death of the feud.

1888 - September 1. September 4, 1888 - George Eastman:

A) Patents ••• Film-Roll Camera. B) Registers ••• The "Kodak" trademark.

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1888 - November 1. November 6, 1888 - Presidential Election:

A) 55 year old, Republican. B) Benjamin Harrison. C) 23rd President.

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1889 1. Safety bicycle is introduced.

2. Beginning of "Aunt .Jemima": A) Pearl Milling Company. B) St • .Joseph, Missouri. C) Where did the logo for the pancake mix

come from?? I. Vaudville act. II. Blackface minstrels ••• Baker & Farrell. III. Act is called "Old Aunt .Jemima."

D) Pearl is bought out by the R.T. Davis Milling Company.

E) 1893: I. Former slave. II. 59 year old, Nancy Green. III. Becomes the logo. IV. 1923 ••• She is killed in an automobile

accident. F) 1926:

I. The Quaker Oat Company buys out Davis. G) 1933:

I. Anna Robinson becomes the model for Aunt .Jemima.

H) 1950: I. Last "Aunt .Jemima." II. Rosie Hall.

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III. Today - Her Texas grave: (1) Historical landmark.

I) 1960's - Eldridge Cleaver: I. "She was a traitor to Black Americans' racial

. pride, identity, values, etnd legacy." "') 1989 - Makeover:

I. Loss of weight. II. Younger. III. Pearl earrings. IV. Lace collar.

3. Congress creates: A) Department of Agriculture.

4. Hull House in Chicago is opened: A) "'ane Addams & Ellen Starr. B) Open a Kindergarten & Clinic. C) Sue sweatshop bosses. D) Investigate corrupt landlords. E) 8uildthe·1st public playground in Chicago.

5. Factory Workers & Common Laborers: A) Most are migrants or children of migrants. B) Work in sweatshops. C) Do hard physical, work •. D) Are difficult to organize into Unions because of

ethnic and language barriers.

( 6. Phrase "Middle Class" is introduced: A) By "The Century Dictionary." B) Describes them as:

I. Professionals, such as: (1) Doctors. (2) Architects. (3) Lawyers. (4) Etc.

II. High salaries. III. Enjoy a good standard of living. IV. Children attend Public Schools.

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A) Chicago, Illinois. B) Social Reformer. C) Opens Hull House in 1889:

I. Offers recreational & educational programs for the poor.

D) In 1931 ••• Nobel Peace Prize.

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1889 '* The Dalton Gang ~

1~ The Dalton Brothers - Cousins of the Youngers and the James': A) Bob Dalton:

I. Born - 1867 - Missouri. 11.5 feet 10 inches tall- Slender - Brown eyes and hair. ill. Kills 1st man before age 20.

B) Gratton "Grat" Dalton: I. Born -1862 - Missouri. II. 5 feet 9 inches tall- Slender - Brown eyes and hair. ill. Mustache.

C) Emmett D~lton: I. Born - 1871 - Missouri. II. 6 feet tall. III. Brown eyes and hair.

D) Bill Dalton: I. Born - 1873 - Missouri. II. 5 feet 11 inches tall- Brown eyes and hair.

2. Bob, Grat, and Emmett become U.S. Deputy Marshals: A) Good law officers. B) Due to graft, corruption, and cheating by superiors they

resign. C) Bob becomes Chief of Police for the Osage Indian

Nation: I. Start stealing horses in Oklahoma and selling them in

Kansas. II. Suspected - All 3 resign.

3. 1889 - New Mexico - Mining camp - Faro game - Are Cheated:

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A) Guns - Shooting - Grab money - Run. B) Chased by posse - Shootout - No casualties - Get away.

4. California - To visit brother, Bill: A) February 1891 - Earlimart, California - Rob a Southern

Pacific train: I. Kill the Fireman - Get a few thousand dollars.

B) Grat is captured: I. Sentenced to 20 years in Folsom State Prison. ll. Escapes from train transporting him to prison. ill. Returns to Oklahoma - Joins up with Bob and

Emmett.

5. Bob Dalton oreanizes a gang: A) Emmett and Grat. B) Bill Doolin. C) Dick Broadwell - Happy-go-lucky cowboy from

Oklahoma. D) Bill Powers - Cowboy from Oklahoma. E) "Blackface" Charley Bryant - Gunpowder burns on one

cheek.

6. May 9,1891- Perry, Oklahoma - Santa Fe Train­$7,250.00: A) Bryant casually kills the young telegraph operator!

7. Oklahoma - Steal horses: A) Posse - Twin Mounds, Oklahoma - Gunbattle:

I. Get away killing 1 deputy and wounding another.

8. Bryant is captured by Deputy Marshal, Ed Short: A) Train - On way to stand trial. B) Bryant grabs .45 - Two men shoot and kill each other!

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9. June 1, 1891 - Red Rock, Oklahoma - Santa Fe train - $12 thousand.

10. Summer 1891 - Lelietta, Oklahoma - Missouri, Kansas, and Texas train - $19 thousand.

11. September 15,1891 - Missori, Kansas, and Texas passenger train - $11 thousand.

12. July 14, 1892 - Adair, Oklahoma - Rob the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas train station: A) Wait for the train to arrive! B) Pulls in. C) 9 armed guards on board. D) Huge gunfight. E) 3 marshals badly wounded. F) 2 doctors in a drugstore across the street are wounded:

I. 1 later dies! G) Get away with $17 thousand!

13. Rewards totaling $33 thousand are Qffered for the gang -Dead or alive!

14. Bob plans a robbery: A) Target - Coffevville, Kansas. B) 2 banks in the same town at the same time! C) To be 6 members take part:

I. Bob Dalton. ll. Grat Dalton. ID. Emmett Dalton. IV. Bill Powers. V. Dick Broadwell. VI. Bill Doolin.

**Only 5 will take part.

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**Doolin forced to drop out because of a lame horse on the day of the robbery!

D) Targets are: I. 1st National Bank. ll. C.M. Condon and Company Bank. ill. Both banks face the plaza of the town - Are within

100 feet of each other. E) Plan:

I. Arrive in town a few minutes after 9:00 in the morning.

ll. Banks open at 9:00! Ill. Tie horses to the rack in front of the Opera House. IV. 25 year old, Bob and 22 year old, Emmett Dalton

will rob the 1st National Bank. V. 33 year old, Grat Dalton, 28 year old, Bill Powers,

and 27 year old, Dick Broadwell will rob the Condon Bank.

15. October 5, 1892 - Coffeyville, Kansas: A) 9:00 - Morning - The 5 arrive in town. B) Hitching rack in front of Opera House is gone! C) Bob decides to tie the horses to the rack in front of

Slausson's Drugstore next to the alley. D) Stupidly - Step into alley - Put bandanas around necks. E) Head for 2 banks. F) Merchant - "McKenna" - Notices the 5 strangers and

the bandanas - Suspects something! G) 9:40 - Morning - Grat Dalton, Powers, and Broadwell

enter the Condon Bank: I. Has 3 large plate glass windows - Anyone outside

can see what is going on inside! H) Same time - 100 feet east - Bob and Emmett Dalton

enter the 1st National Bank. I) Condon Bank:

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I. Grat Dalton orders the cashier, Charlie Bell to open the safe.

II. Bell tells him the safe has a time lock and will not open until9:45!

ill. Grat says he will wait! IV. Actually, the safe is already open!!!!! V. Broadwell and Powers cover 2 other bank officials

and 1 customer with their pistols. J) 1st National Bank:

I. Bob and Emmett cover the 4 bank employees and 3 customers with pistols.

II. Force bookkeeper, B.S. Ayres, to start sacking up the money.

K) Meanwhile - Across the street - "McKenna" sees into both banks - Sees what is going on: I. Spreads the alarm. II. Citizens start grabbing guns and taking cover.

L) 9:43 - 1st National Bank: I. Bob and Emmett start pushing their 7 hostages out

the door. II. Rifle shot from across the street hits the bank door

frame! ill. Bob fires back wounding a citizen in the hand. IV. Shove the hostages through the door. V. Bob and Emmett head for the bank back door. VI. As he is going out the back door - Bob casually

turns and shoots Ayres in the face, killing him!!! M) Condon Bank:

I. Grat Dalton grabs all available money. II. Citizens open fire on the bank. III. Broadwell and Powers fire back. IV. Broadwell is wounded in one arm. V. The 3 outlaws rush out the door into a hail of lead!

N) Bob and Emmett step into the alley in the back of the

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bank: I. 23 year old, Lucius Baldwin, clerk from Boswell's

Hardware Store, rushes from store into the alley with a pistol in his hand.

II. Bob shoots and kills him! ill. The 2 brothers run north down the alley. IV. Approach the Condon Bank. V. 2 shoemakers, 36 year old, George Cubin, and 59

year old, Charles Brown, step out of their shop into the alley.

VI. Bob shoots and kills both men!! VII. Continue running toward where the horses are

tied! 0) Grat Dalton, Broadwell, and Powers don't make it 20

feet out the door before all 3 men are hit: I. Powers - Hit in arm - Staggers on. II. Livery Stable keeper, John Loehr, - Careful aim­

Fires twice - Hits him in the head and back (comes out thru heart) killing him!

III. Broadwell - Hit in the back running for his horse -Crawls into a lumberyard - Hides - Catches a horse and rides away - ~ mile out of town he collapses and dies!

IV. Grat Dalton takes cover and fires - Kills the town marshal, 46 year old, Charles Connelly.

V. Runs for his horse - Loehr takes aim - Fires twice -Hits him in the heart and throat (goes thru breaking his neck).

VI. Grat Dalton falls dead! P) Bob and Emmett reach their horses:

I. Start to mount. II. Bob is hit - Falls - Is firing his rifle - Hit in the

chest, he slumps to his knees. ill. Emmett is hit in the right arm - Mounts with the

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money. IV. Hit in the back - Comes out groin. V. Still has chance to escape - Sees Bob on ground. VI. Rides back - Leans over:

**Bob: "Don't surrender Emmett. Die game." **Collapses - Dead!!!

VU. Town barber, Carey Seaman, fire both barrels of a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot into Emmett: **19 buckshot hit Emmett in the back knocking

him out of the saddle to the ground. 0) Gunbattle is over:

I. Lasted 12 minutes. II. 5 citizens are dead and 4 wounded. ill. 4 outlaws are dead and 1 wounded.

R) The 4 outlaws are buried outside Coffeyville. S) Emmett is nearly lynched - Guarded - Nursed back to

health: I. Tried. II. March 1893 - Sentenced - 25 years in Kansas State

Penitentiary. ill. Serves 14 years. IV. 1907 - Pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt. V. Marries - Julia Johnson. VI. Moves to Hollywood. VU. Writes a book. Vill. Becomes a building contractor. IX. July 13, 1937 - Dies.

16. Coffeyville today: A) Death Alley still there. B) Graves still there. C) Dalton Museum at 113 East 8th Street is the old Condon

Bank building!

( 1889 Chris Madsen

1. Born - Denmark.

2. Franco/Prussian War.

8. 1870 - Comes to America.

4. U.S. Cavalry: A) Indian campaigns in Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska,

Montana, Idaho, and Utah.

5. Ranches in Oklahoma.

( 6. 1889 - U.S. Deputy Marshal: A) Brave - Many gonbattles! B) One of "The Three Guardsmen:"

I. With Heck Thomas and Bm Tilghman.

7. 1947 - @ age 90 - Natural death!

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1. Area:

1889-1893 (4 Years)

The Johnson County War

A) Wyoming - The Powder River Country -Primarily around the town of Buffalo:

I. 1878 - Morston Frewan builds a ranch. II. 1879 - Town of Buffalo is founded. III. 1879 - Frewan brings in the 1st big herd

of cattle. B) 1879 - The Wyoming Stock Growers

Association is founded: I. Made up of big cattle ranchers. II. Goal is to dominate the state's range and

cattle business. III. They consider the small ranchers to be

troublesome and the same as "thieves."

2. 1880·1884: Large cattle corporations come into the area:

A) They cause bad feelings by trying to dominate the cattle industry and trying to run the small ranchers out of businessl

3. 1882 - Frank Canton (Real name ••••• Joe Homer) becomes Sheriff of Johnson County:

A) Will serve until 1886.

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4. 1884 - Large numbers of settlers and small ranchers enter the area:

A) Lot of branding of strays and mavericks by both large and small ranchers.

B) Result: I. Secretary of the Stock Growers

Association, Thomas Sturgis, originally from New York, issues an "Employment Blacklist": a. Forbids members to employ any man

owning a brand or branding cattle unless it is for a member of the Association: (1) Any cowboy is considered guilty by

association! (2) If a member of the Association

refuses to abide by the "Blacklist" they will not be allowed to participate in the spring roundup.

C) According to this Association "law" small ranchers are now thieves!!!

5. Spring of 188& - The Growers agree to cut the cowboys pay by $5 per month:

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B) Forces a lot of the cowboys to steal and sell cattle in order to survivel

C) Cowboy, .Jack Flagg, leads a cowboy strike: I. Considered a troublemaker by the

Associationl II. By the end of 1886 he is "Blacklisted." III. Buys a homestead on the Red Fork of

the Powder River. IV. Buys a brand - "Hat" - Starts raising

cattle.

6. 1886 - Association hires Frank Canton as a "Range Detective" (Will hold the position until 1892): A) Canton is feared by the small ranchers. B) Canton's "right hand man" is Fred Hesse:

I. Hesse and Flagg hate each otherl

7. 1887 - Year of overgrazing and terrible winter: A) Association members lose a lot of moneyl B) Association Secretary, Sturgis, gets "The

Maverick Law" passed: I. All unbranded cattle are property of the

Associationllill II. If a cowboy brands a calf for HIMSELF he

will be considered a thiefl C) Totally violates the Law of the Rangel D) Tempers flarel

( E) Tension grows between the Association and the small ranchers!

8. 1888 - Orley "Ranger" Jones and his brother, Johnny, arrive from Texas: A) Homestead on the Red Fork of the Powder

River ••••• Will come back to them!

9. 1889 - 40 year old, John Tisdale, his wife and 2 children move into the region: A) Tisdale knows Canton from Texasl B) Bad feelings between the two! C) 1 at meeting between the 2 in Buffalo:

I. Argument! II. Canton ducks into a store and hides!

10. Jim Averell: A) Graduates from Comell University! B) Comes to the area from Rawlins, Wyoming. C) Storekeeper - Runs a Saloon - Postmaster -

Justice of the Peace. D) Ranch on the Sweetwater River, 3 miles

east of Independence Rock. E) Hates the Association and it's members! F) Speaks out against the Association. G) Considered a "Champion" of the small

ranchers! H) Cowboys in the region ask him to get a

( woman or women for "sexual needs": I. He writes Ella Watson in Rawlins asking

her to move to the area and fumish her "trade." a. She agrees!

(1) She will homestead a ranch on the Sweetwater 2 miles from Averell's Ranch.

11. Ella Watson: A) 28 years old. B) 170 pounds - Brown eyes. C) Formerly married to a man named

"Maxwell" ••••• thus ••••• Ella Maxwell. ( D) Marriage fails - Dance Hall girl - Whore.

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E) Meets Averell in Rawlins. F) Her "Hog Ranch" starts to prosper! G) She speaks out against the large cattle

owners: I. Especially, Albert Bothwell, the largest

and most arrogant of the large owners!

12. Averell's and Watson's Ranches sit in the middle of a huge tract of land claimed by Bothwell:

A) He tries to buy them out! B) They refuse! C) He hates them both and wants their land!

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A) Hasn't done anything more than any other rancher!

14. Ella is paid for her "services" at times with cattle:

A) Some HAVE been stolen! B) Thus, the nickname: "Cattle Kate

Maxwell."

15. Saturday - July 20, 1889: A) Albert Bothwell and 5 men arrive at Ella's

Ranch: I. Release all the cattle in the corral! II. Force her on the buckboard. III. Travel the 2 miles to Averell's Ranch.

B) Force him on the buckboard with Ella: I. Head for a nearby canyon. II. Group is followed by Frank Buchanan. III. He opens fire on them. IV. They fire back driving him off.

C) Ropes - Cottonwood tree - Forced to stand on rocks - Ropes around necks - Hands are not tied: I. Ordered to jump off! II. Refuse! III. Shoved off! IV. Claw at throats while strangling to

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death! V. Eyes bulge - Bloody froth from mouths!

16. 2 days later - Bodies are cut down: A) Buried in the same box!

17. The 6 men are arrested: A) Allowed to sign each others bail notes! B) $5 thousand each! C) Inquest is a farce:

I. Of the 4 witnesses against the group: a. 1 is dead! b. 2 have vanished from the face of the

earth! c. 1 has left the territory!

II. The 6 men go free! D) Bothwell gets their Ranches!

I. Ella's shack is moved to his Ranch and made into an Ice House!

E) Bothwell will retire to Los Angeles in 1915: I. 1928 - Santa Barbara - Dies!

18. 1890 and 1891 - Tensions mount!

19. 1891 - Large amounts of stealing by both sides!

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20 • .June 4, 1891 - Thomas Waggoner is taken from his home by 3 armed men:

A) Witnessed by his wife and children! B) Accused of dealing in stolen horses! C) Taken 2 miles from his home and lynched!

21. Enter ••••• Nate Champion: A) Has been in Wyoming for 10 years. B) Stocky - 190 pounds - Blue eyes - Sandy

colored hair. C) Quiet - Soft-spoken. D) Doesn't fear anybody or anything. E) Quick with a handgun. F) The Association hates him •••• He hates them! G) He doesn't fear the Association! H) He becomes the leader of the small

ranchers.

22. November 1, 1891 - Dawn - Champion and Ross Gilbertson are in bed - Attacked by 4 armed men:

A) They are driven off by Champion's gunfire: I. He wounds 1 of them.

23. End of November 1891: A) 23 year old, Orley "Ranger" .Jones, is

homesteading on the Red Fork River: I. November 20, 1891 - He heads for Buffalo!

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II. November 28, 1891 - He heads for home! III. December 3, 1891 - 5 days later - His

body is found: a. Has been shot in the back 3 times at

a distance of six feet!

24. November 30, 1891 - John Tisdale is on his way back home from Buffalo after doing some Christmas shopping:

A) Shot in the back and killed from a distance of 20 feet!!!

I. Charlie Basch identifies Frank Canton as his killer!

II. Evidence also points to Canton as being Jones' killer!

25. December 8, 1891 - Hearing against Frank Canton is held:

A) December 9, 1891 - Next day - He is freed! B) Why?? •••• HE is a Range Detective for the

Association!!! C) Small Ranchers are outraged!

26. Enter ••••• The Cheyenne Ring ••••• The wealthy insiders who dominate The Stock Grower's Association, the cattle business, and the politics of the state I!

A) Their plan:

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I. March to Buffalo! II. Cut the telegraph wires isolating the

area! III. Seize the courthouse! IV. Seize all the arms in the area! V. Shoot, hang, and burn the Small

Ranchers out! VI. Have a list of 70 men they plan to kill!

B) They send Tom Smith to Texas to recruit what turns out to be 22 gunfighters: I. Pay:

a. $5 per day plus expenses! b. $50 bonus f~r each Small Rancher

killed! C) Governor, Amos Barber, knows of the plan

and ••••• SUPPORTS IT!II!!

27. By 1892 the "Texas Invasion Army" is ready!!! A) Force:

I. Leader is: a. Major Frank Wolcott.

II. Association members are: a. A.D. Adamson. b. Richard Allen. c. C.A. Campbell. d. Arthur Clarke. e. W .... Clarke. f. H.W. Davis.

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g. Frederic DeBillier. h. Charles Ford. i. W.E. Guthrie. j. Fred Hesse. k. William Irvine. I. F.H. Laberteaux. m. Lafayette Parker. n. A.R. Powers. o. S. Sutherland. p. Hubert Teschemacher. q. D.R. Tisdale. r. .John Tisdale. s. W.B. Wallace. t. Elias Whitcomb.

III. Range Detectives are: a. Frank Canton. b. Scott Davis. c. Phil DeFran. d • .Joe Elliott. e. Ben Morrison. f. Mike Shonsey.

IV. The Texas Gunfighters are: a. William Armstrong. b • .J. Barlings. c • .J.M. Benford. d. D. Brooks. e • .Jim Dudley. f. Buck Garrett.

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V. The Teamsters are: a. William Collum. b. George Helm. c. Charles Austin.

VI. The 2 Newspaper Reporters are: a. Sam Clover. b. Ed Towse.

VII. The Surgeon is: a. Dr. Charles Bingham.

B) Total ••••• of 55 men!

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A) Invasion train pulls out of Cheyenne!

29. Wednesday - April 6, 1892 - 4:00 - Morning: A) Train arrives in Casper, Wyoming:

I. Army leaves the train. II. Mount up and head for Buffalo.

30. Friday - April 8, 1892 - They reach Tisdale's Ranch:

A) 5:00 - Afternoon - Mike Shonsey arrives: I. News - Ar. 14 or 15 men at the KC Ranch:

a. One of the men is Nate Champion! B) Midnight - The Invaders head for the KC

Ranch!

·31. Saturday - April 9, 1892 - The Battle of the KC Ranch:

A) Invaders surround the ranch house. B) Inside are:

I. Nate Champion. II. Nick Ray. III. Ben Jones, a trapper. IV. Bill Walker, a trapper.

C) Dawn - Jones comes out to get water: I. Captured by the Invaders. II. They realize he is innocent - Tells them

who is inside - They keep him as a prisoner!

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E) Ray comes out to check on the other 2 and get water: I. 12 steps from the door he is shot! II. Crawls back to the door. III. Champion comes out firing - Drags Ray

back inside. F) Siege:

I. 9:00 - Morning - Ray dies! G) 2:30 - Afternoon - .Jack Flagg approaches

the Ranch: I. Fired at. II. Escapes. III. Heads for Buffalo to spread the alarm.

H) Invaders fill a wagon with wood - Set it afire - Roll it against the house: I. Champion comes out firing. II. Kit by 15 bullets and killed! III. Invaders pin a card to his vest: "Cattle

Thieves Bewarel" I) Invaders head for the TA Ranch, 14 miles

from Buffalo • .J) Evening - April 9th

- News of the Invasion reaches Buffalol

32. Sunday - April 10, 1892: A) Sheriff W.G. "Red" Angus and 6 men reach

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B) By this time the populace is rising against the Invaders!

C) Midnight: I. Jack Flagg and 49 men surround the

Invaders at the TA Ranch!

33. Monday - April 11, 1892 - Sheriff Angus and 40 more men arrive to fight the Invaders:

A) Siege. B) More men arrive each hour.

34. Tuesday - April 12, 1892: A) Siege continuesl B) Governor Barber wires President of the

United States, Benjamin Harrison, asking that he order the U.S. Troops at Fort McKinney to intervene:

I. 11 :05 - Night - Harrison gives the order for the Troops to stop the fightingl

35. Wednesday -April 13, 1892: A) 6:45 - Morning - Small Ranchers are

preparing to dynamite the house: I. Troops arrivel II. Place the Invaders under arrestl

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36. May 10, 1892 - George Wellman, Invader sympathizer, Foreman on the Henry Blair Ranch, is shot and killed from ambush!

37. August 10, 1892 - The Texas Gunfighters are all released:

A) Go back to Texas.

38. January 1893 - Invaders are tried: A) AII ••••• NOT GUlL TV!!

39. May 1893 - Dudley Champion, Nate's brother, is shot and killed by Mike Shonsey:

A) Tried ••••• NOT GUlL TV! B) This is the last killing of the war!

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The Black Hand 1. The Black Hand:

A) Originates in Sicily.

2. Organized along military lines: A) A unit consists of 10 people:

I. unit elects a leader - "Capo": (1) Capos elect a Chief of the Province. (2) Also called The Head of the Family:

a. Heads of the Families elect a "Boss of Bosses" ••••• The Godfather!

3. "Mafiosi" - Sicilian outlaws: A) Hide in the brush covered hills.

4. Members are experts with the knife and shotgun.

5. Specialize in: A) Murder. B) Extortion.

6. Crave money and power.

7. January 24, 1889: A) New Orleans, Louisiana.

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B) Suspected Mafia member has throat cut from ear to ear.

C) Police Chief, David Hennessey suspects the existence of a powerful brotherhood.

D) Over the next year: I. Dozens more victims!

8. By 1890: A) The Black Hand has established an

extortion racket: I. Use it against the immigrants living in:

(1) "Little Italy." (2) Major eastern cities. (3) Major southern cities. (4) Major mid-western cities.

B) Control the docks and waterfronts of New Orleans: I. Boats coming in have to pay a "fee" to the

Matranga Brothers: (1) Antonio and Carlo. (2) from Palermo, Sicily.

II. If the "fee" is not paid: (1) Throat cut, or shot, or beaten half to

death!

9. Send unsigned notes to prominent members of the community: A) Demand money on the threat of death!

( B) Use all kinds of "signatures": I. Most prominent is the outline of a hand

dipped in heavy black ink!

10. Primary areas of activity: A) New York City. B) Chicago, Illinois. C) New Orleans, Louisiana. D) St. Louis, Missouri. E) Kansas City, Kansas.

11. New Orleans: A) Hennessey and his staff are offered bribes:

I. Refuse! B) They are then, threatened!

12. October 15, 1890: A) New Orleans. B) Night. C) Hennessey is approaching his house. D) Meets 4 men:

I. At point blank range. II. All four blast him with shotguns. III. Killed instantly.

13. March 14, 1891: A) 19 men are tried for Hennessey's murder.

( B) 16 are acquitted.

( C) Mob storms the jail. D) Drag the men from the jail:

I. 2 are lynched from lampposts. II. 9 are shot to death. III. 8 are badly beaten.

14. By 1905 - Huge Mafia families in almost every major city.

15. New York City: A) Top man for 30 years ••• lgnazio "Lupo the

Wolf" Saietta.

16. Brooklyn and Manhattan are controlled by: ( A) Frankie Yale.

B) dohnny Torrio. C) Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova.

17. Saietta is caught by the Secret Service for counterfeiting:

A) Sentenced to 30 years!

18. New York City - Lt. doseph Petrosino: A) For 26 years ••• Heads the Department's

Special Italian Squad: I. dails many "blackhanders." II. Deports many "wanted" blackhanders to

Sicily and Italy.

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19. 1909 - Petrosino goes to Palermo, Sicily: A) To get records of blackhanders operating in

America. B) March 12, 1909:

I. Night. II. Petrosino is waiting for an informant. III. It is a "set-up" by the Mafia! IV. He is shot to death. V. Order given by ••• Mafia Boss, Don Paulo

Marchese.

( 20. Marchese immigrates to America: A) Operates a Black Hand organization in New

Orleans. B) Tries to extort money from grocer, Pietro

Pepitone: I. Pepitone refuses to pay! II. Marchese shows up to "collect." III. Pepitone blasts him with both barrels of

a shotgun killing him! C) Pepitone is tried ••• Guilty ••• Sentenced to 20

years: I. Serves 6 years ••• Paroled!

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A) Operation is run by doseph "Scarface" DiGiovanni and his brother, Pete.

B) 1915: I. The 2 brothers are arrested by Detective

Louis Olivero: (1) Days later ••• Olivero is shot in the back

and killed.

22. Chicago: A) Many bombings by blackhanders. B) 1900 to 1920:

I. Almost 80 Black Hand gangs operate in the city.

( 1889 - March 1. March 4, 1889 - Inauguration - 55 year old,

Republican, Benjamin Harrison - 23rd President: A) Born - 8/20/1833 - North Bend, Ohio. B) Grandfather is former President:

I. William Henry Harrison. C) College - Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. D) 1853 - Lawyer. E) 1853 - Age 20 - Marries 21 year old, Caroline

Scott: I. Few years later ••• She dies.

F) 1881 - U.S. Senator - Indiana. ( G) 5 feet 6 inches tall - Full beard:

I. Last President to wear one. H) Only Grandson of a President to become

President. I) Puts the 1st EI~ctricity in the White House:

I. Deathly afraid of the light switches. II. Will not touch them.

J) Rated "Fair." K) 1896 - Age 62 - Marries 2 nd time:

I. 37 year old, cousin, Mary Harrison. L) 3/13/1901 - Age 67 - Dies - $375 thousand

estate.

( 1889 - April 1. April 22, 1889 - Oklahoma Land Rush:

A) 12:00 - Noon. B) 1,OOO's of people. C) By sundown ••• 2 Tent Towns:

I. Oklahoma City. II. Guthrie.

1889 - May 1. May 31, 1889 - The Johnstown Flood:

A) Johnstown, Pennsylvania: I. Southeast of Pittsburgh.

B) Connemaugh Dam:

I. Earthen Dam.

C) Rain - Leaks - Breaks. D) Over 2,000 killed.

E) $10 million in damage.

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A) North Dakota ••• State. B) South Dakota ••• State.

2. November 8, 1889 - Montana - State.

3. November 11, 1889 - Washington - State.

November 1889 The Apache Kid - Outlaw

1. 1868 - Bom - San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.

2. Age 16 - Chief of Apache Scouts under AI Sieber: A) Called "Nino." B) Youngest Indian to ever serve in the U.S.

Armed Services.

3. Father is killed by another Indian: A) According to Apache custom - Kills the

( slayer of his father! B) Surrenders voluntarily. C) Tried - Convicted:

I. Pardoned by President Cleveland.

4. Whiskey peddler is killed: A) Indian "hating" authorities of Globe, Arizona

have him and 7 other Apaches arrested for the murder: I. Protest they are innocentl II. Tried. III. October 18, 1889 - Guilty - 7 years in the

Territorial Prison at Yuma.

5. November 2, 1889 - Stagecoach is headed to

( Yuma from Globe with the prisoners: A) Going uphill - Indians are told to get out

and lighten the load: I. Overpower and kill Sheriff Glenn Reynolds

and Daputy William Holmes. II. Shoot driver Gene Middleton through the

neck and leave him for dead! a. Will manage to reach a settlement and

tell the story.

6. The Apache Kid is now wanted with a $5 thousand reward on his head!

7. Is a loner: ( A) Kills at random!

B) Kills both males and females! C) Kills many people! D) Kidnaps young squaws for camp and sexual

needs: I. Tires of them - Cuts throats - Leaves

bodies for animals to eat!

8. 1894 - Ed Clark, prospector, camped­Suspicious: A) Night. B) Stakes out a horse. C) Hides, watches, and waits. D) Late - Squaw approaches - Clark fires and

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kills her! E) Kid fires at Clark and misses! F) Clark fires back and hits the Kid. G) Finds huge amounts of blood, BUT, no bodyl

9. Body is never found: A) BUT, from that night on ••••• no more killings

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1890 1. Population - 62,947,714.

2. End of the "Frontier."

3. American Reservation Indians: A) Health problems. B) Short life spans. C) Inadequate diets. F) Food provided:

I. Bacon - Lard - Navy Beans - Baking Powder­Dried Prunes:

. (1) Except for prunes •••• STARCHY!! II. Diet will last into the 1900's.

4. Start of a Global Depression: A) So badin U.S. that troops guard Treasury Branches

.. in N.e.w York City and Chic;ago. B) Ranches, Mines, Sharecroppers, and Tenant

Farmers are hit very hard. C) .Jobless people form "Industrial Armies." D) Same time:

I. 200 families in America are worth over $20 million each!!!

5. Vaudville becomes big: A) Middle ground between Theatre and Variety Shows.

. B) Appeals to a broad audience.

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D) Owners regulate: . I. Smoking & Alcohol ••••• Why?? ••••• To attract entire

. families. E) Female Impersonators become very popular.

6. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan: A) United Mine Workers are organized.

7. Cities: A) 1 out of 3 Americans live in a big city. B) 2 out of 3 immigrants live in a big city. C) Cities a·re very segregated. D) Jacob Riis - Book-"How The Other Half Lives:"

I. Expose of the slums of New York City.

8. South: A) "Jim Crow" Laws are very much in practice:

I. Systematic separation of races by law. II. Segregation.

B) To vote ••••• Must demonstrate: I. Literacy, or property ownership, or knowledge of

the Constitution: . (1l Designed to eliminate Blacks an·d 1 out of 4

poor southern Whites.

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B) Use technology, scientific management, and Federal powers to control the workplace:

I. Workers react: (1) Withdraw from Politics. (2) Wages, hours, and cOilditions become the

important issues.

10. Farmers: A) Large numbers go bankrupt ••••• Why??

I. Drop in"farm prices. II. Expensive equipment. III. Railroads charge them double of what they do

big business to get their goods to market.

11. The Harrison-McKinley Tariff: A) Gives the President the authority to raise or lower

tariffs with other Nations: I. Punish those who close markets to American

,goods. II. Reward those who open markets and lift customs

barriers to American goods. B) Known as: "Reciprocity."

12. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act: A) Passed by the Republicans. B) Makes it illegal to:

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13. Naval Officer, Alfred Mahan, writes - "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783":

A) Says: I. Colonies are necessary for markets for goods. II. Colonies are necessary for Christian Missions. III. Colonies are necessary for Naval Stations all the

way to the Far East. IV. U.S. should build a canal across Central

America.

14. College Athletics: A) Men:

I. Football - Basketball - Rowing. B) Women:

I. Baseball- Basketball -Tennis - Bicycling -Swimming - Golf - Croquet.

15. "American White Superiority": A) Biologists believe Americans are superior to all

other races: I. Taught socially, culturally,and politically in

museums, libraries, and universities.

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1890 Marion Hedgepeth - Outlaw

1. Background: A) Bom - 1870 - Prairie Home, Missouri. B) Age 15 - Runs away from home. C) 6 feet tall - Dark complexion - Wavy black

hair. D) Dresses nice - Prefers black suits with a

white shirt, diamond stickpin, and a derby hat!

E) 1890 - Organizes a gang called "The Hedgepeth Four":

I. Himself. II. Albert "Bertie" Sly. III • .James "Illinois .Jimmy" Francis. IV. Lucius "Dink" Wilson, alias, "Charles

Burke.

2. November 4, 1890 - Omaha, Nebraska: A) Rob the Missouri Pacific Train • $1

thousand.

3. November 12, 1890 - Rob the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Express Train: A) Blow the Express Car to pieces!!!

I. Get $5 thousand.

4. November 19, 1890 - Glendale, Missouri:

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5. 1892 - Captured: A) Tried in St. Louis - 12 year sentence:

I. 1906 - Released!

6. 1907 - Omaha, Nebraska - Arrested for blowing a safe:

A) 10 year sentence! B) Serves 2 years - Released! C) Leams he is dieing of tuberculosis.

7 • .January 1, 1910 - Chicago, Illinois - Is robbing a saloon: A) Policeman arrives:

I. Shootout - Hedgepeth is hit twice and killed!

1890 Herman Mudgett - Murderer

1. Background: A) Born 1860 - Gilmantown, New Hampshire. B) Studies medicine. C) Kicked out of Medical School. D) 6 feet tall - Brown eyes - Sandy hair -

Mustache - Heavy build. E) Seems "very nice." F) Alias: "Harry Howard Holmes." G) Becomes a swindler.

2. 1890's - South Chicago, Illinois: ( A) Murders a Drug Store owner - Mrs. Holden:

I. Takes over her store!1

3. Builds a three story house on 63rd Street: A) Becomes a "Murder Castle":

I. Secret passages. II. Hidden rooms. III. Basement with a huge dissecting table:

a. Stone crematory. b. Pits filled with quicklime and acid.

4. Method of operation: A) Applies to employment agencies for young

women to be SecretaryJTyplsts: I. Takes them to the "castle."

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II. Seduces or rapes them. III. Forces them take out insurance naming

him as the beneficiary. IV. Uses chloroform or gas to murder them

for the insurance money. V. Sometimes he dissects or cremates them

ali"e!!!!!!!!!

5. He bums the "Castle" to collect the insurance money on it! A) Boards it up!

6. Joins up with petty thief, Ben Pitezel, in an insurance swindle scheme - He is now being tracked:

A) Philadelphia Policeman, Frank Geyer, is after him!

7. No"ember 17, 1894 - Arrested: A) Disco"ered he has murdered Pitezel and 3

of his children! B) "Castle" is tom apart:

I. Basement dug up! II. 200 corpses are found.

C) He confesses to killing 27 of them: I. Tried - Guilty - Death. II. May 7, 1896 - Hanged!

( 1890 Augustin Chacon & Pedro Chavez

Outlaws 1. Augustin Chacon:

A) Nickname: "Peludo" (Hairy). B) Tall - Lean - Strong - Long mustache and

beard. C) Loves to kill for the pleasure of it. D) Leader of a gang that terrorizes southern

Arizona.

2. Pedro Chavez: A) Small.

( B) "Evil Eyes." C) Robber and cold-blooded killer' D) Member of Chacon's Gang.

3. Gang commits crimes in Arizona - Crosses the border back into Mexico and hides in the mountains of Sonora: A) U.S. Lawmen are not allowed to cross the

international border into Mexico and go after them.

B) They are careful NOT to commit any crimes in Mexico ••••• Why?

I. So they are not hunted or wanted by the Mexican Rurales.

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C) When hiding in Arizona: I. Mountains overlooking Morenci and

Clifton!

4. 1897 - Morenci, Arizona - Rob Paul Becker's Store: A) Chacon murders Becker:

I. Cuts up the body with a knife! B) Posse traps the Gang in a box canyon:

I. Deputy Sheriff Pablo Salcido attempts to convince the Gang to surrender!

II. Is an old friend of Chacon's. III. White handkerchief to barrel of rifle. IV. Asks Chacon if he can come forward and

talk. V. Chacon: "Yes!" VI. Salcido walks to within 50 feet of

Chacon. VII. Chacon shoots and kills him with a rifle!

C) Posse advances - Huge gun battle: I. Chavez is wounded. II. Chacon is wounded through the arm and

right lung. III. Both men are taken prisoner.

D) Rest of the Gang escapes!

5. Both men heal: A) Tried for Becker's murder:

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I. Guilty - Sentenced to hang. II. Chavez is taken to Tucson. III. Chacon is taken to Solomonville.

6. Chavez breaks out of jail at Tucson: A) Flees into the Santa Rita Mountains:

I. Trailed by Sheriff Lyman Wakefield of Cochise County.

II. Gunfight between the two! III. Chavez is shot and killed!

7. At Solomonville - Chacon's girlfriend sneaks him a hacksaw blade: A) Hidden in a Bible! B) Less than 24 hours before he is to be

hanged - Escapes!! I. Cannot be found!

8. 1900 - Governor of Arizona forms the Arizona Rangers:

A) Led by Captain Burton Mossman. B) Mossman knows Chacon is in Mexico and

that he will have to lure him back into the United States: I. Uses 2 outlaws in his plan:

a. Burt Alvord and Billie Stiles. C) Mossman hears that Alvord and Stiles are

in Mexico:

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I. Secretly crosses the border. II. Finds the 2 men. III. Alvord is badly wounded in the wrist. IV. Mossman offers a deal:

a. For the reward money and medical attention: (1) They lure Chacon across the

border into Mossman's trapl D) Mossman poses as a horse thief:

I. "Plan" is to steal valuable race horses. E) The two men bring Chacon to Mossman's

camp: I. Alvord then fleesl II. Mossman handcuffs Stiles and Chacon to

each other. III. Takes them back across the border into

the United States. IV. Turns Stiles loose. V. Turns Chacon over to the Authorities.

9. November 23, 1902 - Solomonville, Arizona: A) Chacon is hangedl

( 1890 - May 1. May 2, 1890 - The Indian Territory:

A) Re-named: "The Oklahoma Territory."

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1890 - July 1. July 3, 1890 - Idaho - State.

2. July 10, 1890 - Wyoming - State.

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1890 - August 1. August 6, 1890 - William Kermler:

A) New York. B) 1st man ••• Put to Death ••• Electric Chair. C) An American invention.

( 1890 - September 1. September 25, 1890 - Congress - Creates:

A) Yosemite National Park.

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The BattlelMassacre of Wounded Knee 1. The Sioux Reservation ••• South Dakota:

A) 34,000 square miles in size. B) Has 5 Agencies:

I. Pine Ridge. II. Rosebud. III. Brule. IV. Cheyenne River. V. Standing Rock.

C) Since 1876 ••• Treaty after treaty ••• Has whittled down the Reservation.

2. February 10, 1890 - Government opens 11 million acres of the Reservation for settlement! A) Sioux are now deprived of a large amount

of their ancient hunting grounds: I. Also, have to deal with the graft and

corruption of President Harrison's administration!!

B) Indians are deprived of 50 of the GOOD 58 Indian Agents:

I. Replaced by corrupt, inept, god-like Agents!

3. Rationing of food to the Indians is deplorable: A) Congress promises NO reduction of rations:

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I. YET, they fail to appropriate sufficient funds to feed the Indians!!!

B) Rations are cut from one-half to 1/3!!! I. Most of the food is rotten or spoiled!

4. Annuity Payments: A) Always late! B) Always short!

5. Disease: A) Everywhere!!! B) Epidemics of ••• Flu, Measles, Whooping

Cough, Malnutrition, Etc.!!! C) Mortality (Death) rate is extremely high!

6. Indian chiidren ••• Virtually FORCED to leave home and go to Boarding Schools: A) If parents refuse to let their children be

taken away •••••• Rations are withheld!

7. Late 1880's ••••• Nevada ••••• 35 year old, Paiute Indian sheepherder ••••• Named "Wovoka" ••••• Called ".Jack Wilson" by the whites: A) Is recovering from a long illness.

8 • .January 1, 1889 - An eclipse - Wovoka claims to have a vision in his feverish dreams: A) He is convinced they represent:

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I. Direct, divine, revelations! B) He starts preaching a doctrine that is a

combination of: I. Indian beliefs and certain concepts of

Christianity! C) Wovoka's claims:

I. Has seen God (desus?)! (1) Majestic figure. (2) Dressed in flowing white robes. (3) Long, yellow, hair. (4) Has shown him the nail wounds in his

hands and feet. II. God says he has appeared on earth

before ••• To the white man: (1) God says the white man has rejected

his teachings and killed him!! III. God tells him he will appear again ••• BUT,

this time to the Indian!!! (1) When he returns, the Indian will be

free from want, pain, sickness, and death!

(2) When he returns, the Indian long­dead relatives and friends will live again!

(3) When he returns, the white man will live no more, he will be banished from the earthl

(4) When he returns, the buffalo will

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return and cover the land again: a. They will come out of the caves

where, they have been hiding from the white man I

(5) When he returns, all will be well with the Indian racel

IV. God has told him the Indian must prepare for this "2nd Coming": (1) Must work, live, and worship

together in harmonyl (2) No fighting among themselvesl (3) No arguing among themselvesl (4) As much as possible, discard all

things obtained from the white man I V. God has given him certain things to

teach and the Indian must practice: (1) Sacred songs. (2) Sacred prayers. (3) Sacred dance ••• The Ghost Dancelll (4) Certain paints and paint patterns on

clothing and belongingsl (5) Certain clothing to be worn ••• Ghost

Shirtsl

9. Wovoka's fame spreads: A) Becomes known as an "Indian Messiah." B) Tribes send delegations to be taught by

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I. Comanche ••••• Cheyenne ••••• Kiowas ••••• Arapaho ••••• Etc.

C) Instructs them in the Ghost Dance, etc.: I. Converts them.

10. Delegations return to their respective tribes: A) Teach songs, prayers, paints, clothing,

dance, etc.1 B) The Ghost Dance:

I. Lasts for 5 consecutive days. II. No food. III. No water. IV. 400 to 500 at a time will participate. V. Supposidly ••• Trance ••• Vision.

C) Tribes are inspired: I. Young braves are sent out to look signs of

the returning buffalo.

11. duly 23, 1889 - Chasing Crane - Brings word to the Sioux of Wovoka:

A) Council is held. B) Decided to send a delegation to see him. C) Autumn ••• 11 delegates are senti

12. March 1890 - Sioux delegation returns: A) Big council is heidi B) Agents paniclll

I. 3 members of the Sioux delegation are

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arrested! (1) They refuse to tell anything. (2) After 2 days ••• They are released.

C) Short time later: I. An Arapahoe delegate tells the Sioux of

Ghost Dancing and deep trances: (1) See and talk to long dead relatives.

D) Excitement among the Indians grows!!!!!!!!!

13. News of The Ghost Dance spreads: A) Government authorities are baffled,

alarmed, and hesitant!!! I. Don't know how to control the situation!

B) Becomes front page news across the country: I. Settlers start demanding military

protection. II. Governor of South Dakota asks the War

Department to send troops!

14. Chiefs ••• Hump, Little Wound, Big Road, Red Cloud, and Big Foot ••• Become followers of the Ghost Dance religion:

A) On all 5 of the Dakota Reservations: I. Among the Sioux and Cheyenne ••• Growing

excitement!

(, 15. Whites fear an uprising:

I( , A) Indian Agents report to Washington that the

situation is getting out of controll

16. Pine Ridge reservation: A) Promised beef ration does not arrive:

I. Old Agent resigns! B) Replaced by ••• D.F. Royer:

I. No common sense! II. No guts! III. Nerves wear thin! IV. Wires Washington that the Indians are

on the verge of an uprising! V. Begs Washington to send troops!

( 17. The National Newspapers play the war scare

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18. Mid-October 1890 ••• Pine Ridge Agency: A) The Nebraska Militia and 100 Scouts arrive:

I. Have Hotchkiss Guns: (1) Artillery. (2) Breech-loading. (3) Fires 2 pound, high explosive, shells.

B) Results: I. Chief Red Cloud and other Chiefs bring

their followers into the reservation: (1) Only Chiefs Hump, Sitting Bull, and

Big Foot are left off the reservation.

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A) Orders Secretary of War to take action.

20. Nov. 20, 1890 - Pine Ridge & Rosebud Agencies: A) More troops arrive.

21. Late November 1890 - The 2 Agencies: . A) 3,000 troops:

I. One of the units ••• 7 th Cavalry: (1) Under Colonel James Forsythe.

B) Results: ,

I. Scares the Indians! II. Fear for their lives! III. 1,OOO's flee into the Badlands! IV. Ghost Dancing almost stops! V. Many of the Indians are rounded up and brought

back! VI. Indians calm down ••• Rationalize:

(1) Why provoke trouble? (2) Why fight the soldiers? (3) God is going to destroy them in the spring

when he returns!!

22. December 1890 - News from the Standing Rock

Agency: A) Chief Sitting Bull is leading the Ghost Dancers at

the Agency. B) He has been ordered to move to Pine Ridge:

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I. Refuses!

II. Government decides he HAS to come to Pine Ridge!·

C) Chief Sitting Bull: I. 56 years old. II. Has returned to the U.S. from Canada in 1881 •

. 111. 1880's -Tours - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.

IV. Settles at the Standing Rock Agency. V. "God made me an Indian, but not a Reservation

Indian!" VI~ Very astute and sharp •.. VII. Indian Politician. VIII. Hates and mistrusts whites. IX. Will not even speak to the White Agent at

Standing Rock. X.Followerofthe Ghost Dance ONLY because:

(1) Sees a chance to get back at the White man! XI. Has 500 followers:

(1) They are firm believers in the Ghost Dance. (2) Wear Ghost Shirts:

a. Unbleached muslin. b. Made by female members of the tribe who

have been designated by the Medicine Men. c. Decorated with certain paints, colors, and

. patterns. d. Supposed to "turn back the White Man's

bullets."

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A) Persuade the Sioux that Wovoka's prophecy can be helped by:

I. Wearing the Ghost Shirts. II. Killing Whites.

24. Dec. 10,1890 -General Nelson Miles issues orders: A) Arrest of Sitting Bull:

I. Removal from Reservation.

25. At Government request: ·A) William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody -Arrives at the

Standing Rock Agency: I. Purpose ••••• Talk to Sitting Bull.

26. Enter Agent, James McLaughlin: A) Former Arm·y Officer:

I. Claims to understand Indian psychology. II. Considers Sitting Bull to be treacherous and

cowardly.

B) Ilefuses to let Cody talk to Sitting Bull!! . . I. Hewalils the Reservation Indian Police to arrest

the Chief!!! II. He gives them the job.

C) Reservation Indian Police: I. Loyal. II. Well-trained.

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III. Fellow Indians call them "Metal Breasts." IV. Commanded by Lt. Bull Head:

(1) Hates Sitting Bull and his bodyguard, Catch­. The-Bear.

(2) He WELCOMES the assignment! D) The arrest detail is sent:

I. Lt. Bull Head & 43 R.I.P. II. Backed by 104 members of the 8 th Cavalry and a

. Hotchkiss Gun.

27. December 15, 1890 - Sitting Bull's camp - Grand River - 40 miles from the Standing Rock Agency - 2 log houses and numerous Teepees:

·A) 5:50 morning - Dawn -R.I.P. arrive - 8th Cavalry is several miles behind.

B) Lt. Bull Head & Sgt. Shave Head burst into Sitting Bull's cabin: I. Read him the arrest warrant. II. He·staits dressing. III. Sends his wife to saddle his favorite horse. IV. Word spreads through the Indian camp of his

arrest. V •. 150 of his followers gather at the cabin to

prevent his arrest. C) Bull Head & Shave Head almost "drag" him outside

half-dressed: I. He yells in protest. II. Bun Head has a grip on . his· right arm.

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.. Foot,start taunting.him for being a·coward. D) Sitting Bull's bodyguard, Catch-The-Bear, starts

cursing Bull Head: I. Points a rifle at Bull Head. II. Sitting Bull calls on his followers to rescue him. III. Yells: "I'm not going! I'm not going."

E) Catch-The-Bearfires: I. Hits Bun Head in the leg - As he falls, he shoots

Sitting Bull in the side. II. Bun Head is hit again.

·111. Sitting Bull starts to fall - Red Tomahawk shoots him in the back of the head killing him instantly.

IV. Shave Head buries a tomahawk into him, but, he is already dead!·

V. Shave Head is shot. VI. Catch';'The-Bear is shot· and killed.

F) Fighting is up close and personal: I. Shooting -Stabbing - Clubbing - Fists -

Tomahawks. II. R.I.P. retreat into Sitting Bull's cabin:

(1) sitting Bull's son is found inside: a. Clubbed -Thrown outside - Shot to death.

III. Siege •. G) 2 hours later - 8th Cavalry arrives:

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Shave Head. III. 2 R.I.P. are wounded.

28. Sitting Bull's body: .

A) In a coffin - Buried in quick-lime like a criminal: I. At Standing Rock Agency.

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B) Later ••••• Sitting Bull'sremains will be buried in the Ft. Yates Cemetery: I. April 8,'1953 ~ Wednesday night - His bones are

removed: (1) Taken to west bank of the Missouri River in

South Dakota - Re-buried.

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29. No immediate violent reactions from the Indians in the Reservation· areas:

A) Dead at. Grand River lie unburied for 2 weeks.

30. Agent McLaughlin .-.: Pro~ott:!d to Inspector of Indian Affairs.

31. Several small groups of Sioux Warriors: A) Start killing travelers on isolated roads •

. B) Start robbing freight wagons.

32. December 23, 1890 - Cheyenne River Agency: ( A) Chief Big Foot's band:

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I. 350 Minneconjou Sioux. II. Chief Big Foot ••• 60 years old ••• Has always been

. peaceful. B) Night - Hear of Sitting Bull's death:

I. Fear for their lives. II. Flee into the Badlands. III. Head for Pine Ridge ••• 100 miles to the south.

C) Take in several of Sitting Bull's followers.

33. December 28, 1890 - 6 miles from Wounded Knee Creek - Dead of winter:

A) Chief Big Foot's band iscold,.tired, hungry, and scared: I. Intercepted ny the 7th Cavalry under Major S.M.

Whitside: (1) Under a white flag ••• lndians surrender.

(2) Big Foot has pneumonia. B) Band is marched to Wounded Knee Creek:

I. Camp is made ••• 50 10dges ••• Are 150 yards from the

Cavalry camp: (1) Big Foot is provided with a warming tent and

stove: a. Tended to by an Army doctor. b. White flag of truce is over his tent.

(2) 350 Indians in the camp ••• 230 are women &

chiidren ••• Only 106 of the 120 men are

considered warriors. II. Are 9 miles from the Pine Ridge Agency.

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C) Colonel dames Forsythe, 4 more troops of the 7th

Cavalry, and a battery of Hotchkiss Guns arrives: I. Forsythe now commands the 485 soldiers. II.His troop commanders are:

(1) Moylan - Varnum - Nowlan - Wallace - Godfrey - Edgerly:

a. ALL have been with Custer back in 1876. III. Has orders:

. (1 ) Disarm the Indians. (2) Escort them to a railhead to be taken to

Omaha, Nebraska. D) The Hotchkiss Guns are placed ona knoll:

I. Aimed directly into the Indian camp. E) Soldiers surround the entire camp:

I. Both sides settle in for the night.

34. December 29, 1890: . A) Forsythe has·to move:

I. Blizzard is on·the way. II. Weather is bitterly cold. III. Has no.wood for fires or cooking. IV. Is short of food •.

B) He decides to disarm the Indians before continuing to Pine Ridge ••• Only 9 miles away ••• WHY???

C) The 120 males are separated from the. women and

children: I. Placed in a council area in front of Big Foot's tent. II. He is brought out on a pallet in front of the tent.

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III. Soldiers form 3 sides of an "open square" around the men.

D) Interpreter tells the Indian men to.go into the village and bring back all firearms:

.1.1 hour of shuffling back and forth. II. Only 2 old, broken, guns are turned in.

E) Forsythe knows this is not the ONLY firearms: I. Why haven't the Indians turned them in???

(1) Winter - Families will starve on reservation -. Will have to sneak off and hunt!

(2) The firearms are hidden under their blankets. F) Soldiers are ordered to search the Lodges:

I. Use force. II. Lodges are torn apart. Ill. Bundles torn open. IV. Women and children shoved around. V. After 1 hour:

(1) 40 old, antique, muzzle-loading, rifles are found!

·G) While the soldiers are searching: I. Medicine Man - Yellow Bird - Painted blue, yellow,

and green - Walks among the Indian men: (1) Urges them to strike! (2) They wear Ghost Shirts - White Man's bullets

.. cannot harm them!

(3) Handful of dirt into air - White Man will be

made blind. (4) Kill, Kill, Kill! .

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H) It is now 9:30 - Morning: ·1. Search· of the Lodges is complete.

II. Forsythe orders the Indian men searched. I) Captain George Wallace notices something

suspicious under the blanket worn by Black Coyote: I. He is deaf and crazy!

.J) Wallace and another soldier reach to pull back the blanket: I. At that moment ••• Yeliow Bird throws the handful

of dirt into the air. K) Black Coyote jumps to his feet .... Blanket off -

Shoots Wallace 4 times in the face - Then: I. Buries a tomahawk into his brain!

L) Blankets off - Guns.out - Firing starts: I. Face to face! II.Rifles - Pistols!

(1) Soldiers fire across square ••• Miss ••• Hit fellow soldiers.

III. Will go on for about 30 to 45 seconds. IV. Big Foot tries to sit up •••• He is shot and killed. V.Big Foot's daughter tries to get to him •••• She is

shot and killed. VI. Yellow.Bird & Black Coyote are killed.

M) Fighting is now hand-to-hand: I. Knives - Tomahawks - Clubs - Fists •

. N) The 4 Hotchkiss Guns: ..

I. Aimed at village. II. When firing starts •••• They open fire.

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IV. Fire a 2.6 pound exploding shell for.over 4,000 yards.·

V. The 4 are firing a combined 55 shells per minute. VI. Killing babies, children, women, the old, AND

soldiers!!

0) After 3. Y2 minutes - Indians break off fighting - Start fleeing: I. Women and children try to run and hide. II. NOW it becomes a MASSACRE!!

P) Soldiers & Scouts chase - Kill at will: .1. Sho.w no mercy •••• Bodies will be everywhere!! II. The chase and the kining will go on for 3 hours

and extend 3 miles out from the village!! III. Kin all, including Indian ponies and dogs! IV. Group of women and children hide in a gully:

. (1 ) Scouts persuade them to come out. (2) 2 small boys emerge •••• Shot to pieces!

V. 3 miles from the.camp - Godfrey & 17 men open fire on an Indian group: (1) Kill a woman and 2 little girls.

. (2) Wound a 14 year old . boy •••• He is dying •••• He

opens his eyes •••• Brains blown out!!

Q) Forsythe has to move: I. Blizzard is on the way. II. Gathers bodies of 25 dead Soldiers and 43

wounded: (1) 6 of these wounded will die.

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(2) Total: 31 killed - 37 wounded. III. Gathers 55 Indian wounded:

(1) 7 of these wounded will die. IV.Leaves the Indian dead AND a lot of wounded! V. Heads for Pine Ridge. VI. Only a handful of women & children along with 6

warriors have escaped.

35 • .January 1, 1891 - 3 days later - Burial party returns: A) 30 men - Work for Paddy Starr:

I. Have contracted with the Government to bury the bodies for $2 each •

. B) Many oft.he. Indian dead a.nd wounded have been removed by survivors & relatives during the 3 days.

C) Hill where the ·Hotchkiss Guns were firing: I. Long trench •••• Common grave •••• ls dug.

D) Bodies are gathered in wagons and brought up to grave:

I. Frozen in grotesque positions of death: (1) 3 pregnant women •••• Shot to pieces:

a. One •••• Stomach blown open •••• Dead unborn baby is visible.

(2)1mother •••• Dead •••• Shot in chest: . a. 25 day old baby •••• Has tried to nurse for 3

days •••• Has swallowed too much blood. b. Baby will die 3 days later.

(3) Mound of snow •••• Body of 4 month old female

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II. Stripped for souvenirs III. Thrown into mass grave.

·E) Some found alive: I. Blind, wounded, old woman:

(1) Has survived 3 days in the freezing weather. II. 5 adults and 2 children found alive. III. Several babies found alive:

(1) Wrapped in blankets. (2) Next to bodies of dead mothers •.

F) At grave: I. 165 bodies into the grave:

. (1) 84 men and boys •••• 24 are OLD MEN. (2) 51 women •••• 7 are OLD WOMEN. (3) 26 children under the age of 13. (4) 4 babies •••• Crushed skulls.

II. No religious service. III. 7th Cavalry Officer: "Now, we've avenged

Custer's death!"

36. Most likely the total death toll, from gunshots, wounds,and exposure is over 200n

37: Survivors are rounded up: A) Placed on reservations.

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I. He removes Forsythe from command.

39. Forsythe is court-martialed for incompetence, inexperience, irresponsibility,and disobeying orders:

A) Secretary of War, Proctor & the courts clear him and his troops:

I. Evidence is never made public! II. Few years later •••• Forsythe is promoted to

General.

40. Wovoka: A) Professes shock at Massacre. B) Says the tribes twistedth~ meaning of his words. C) Indians refuse to listen to him. D) Indians believe he is a liar and a bore! E) October 4, 1932 •••• Dies •••• Buried in Schurz, Nevada.

41. Red Cloud: . .

A) Lives for 15 more years. B) Almost blind - Little honor left. C) Arrested for shooting birds out of season •••• Fined

$65 •••• Has to give up 2 horses to pay it.

42. 18 Soldiers •••• Congressional Medal of Honor •••• For

Wounded Knee!!!!!!

( 1891 1. Whitcomb Judson:

A) Invents the zipper.

2. Dr. James Naismith: A) Springfield, Massachusetts. B) Y.M.C.A. C) Invents the game of ••• Basketbali.

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Zip Wyatt & Isaac Black - Outlaws 1. Zip Wyatt:

A) Alias: "Dick Yeager."

2. Isaac Black: A) Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma he steals

cattle & horse, and robs Post Offices.

3. August 1, 1895 - Near Canton, Oklahoma -Gunfight with lawmen: A) Black is shot and killed. B) Wyatt gets away.

4. August 4, 1895 - Near Enid, Oklahoma - In a field - Wyatt is found dieing from his wounds: A) Taken to town - Bed - Few hours later­

Dead!

( 1891 William Coyote

"Cherokee Bill" - Outlaw 1. Background:

A) Born - 1876 - Cherokee Indian. B) 1891 - Age 15 - Carlisle Indian School:

I. Takes a .36 caliber revolver to his math class: a. Shoots and kills the teacher, Ralph

Claussen. II. Flees!

2. Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: ( A) Walks into the bankl

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I. Shoots her twice in the face killing her! II. Grabs the money and flees!

3. In the presence of his wife and 7 children he shoots teacher, Andy Bingham, off his horse: A) Empties the gun into his head killing himl

4. Next day - Golden Rule General Store: A) Shoots and kills the owner, Barney

Coleman: I. Robs the store.

( 5. Shoots and kills his sister's husband, .Iohn William Broken Arrow: A) He is now wanted by both the Whites and

the Cherokees.

6. Captured by a Federal Posse: A) Night - Escapesl B) Next day - Capturedl C) Night - Slits the throat of his guard, Sgt.

Chester Osborne - Escapes: I. Now a $1 thousand reward for him ••••• dead

or alive!

7. Starts a rape spree: ( A) By age 18 - $4 thousand reward, dead or

alive!

8. Home of .led Fenton: A) Fenton is away on business. B) Rapes Fenton's mother! C) Rapes Fenton's wife! D) Rapes the 2 daughters! E) Slits all of their throatsl

9 • .led Fenton returns - Swears revenge - Enlists the help of a Cherokee girl, Kitty Hawk, to get him: A) She parades around almost nude!

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hang!

10. March 17, 1896 - On his 20th birthday -Hanged!

( 1891 - January 1. Hawaii:

A) Liliuokalani becomes Queen. B) Tries to get absolute power. C) 1893 ••• Will be dethroned.

2. January 30, 1891 - Charles Heywood: A) 9th Commandant - U.S.M.C. B) Born - 10/3/1839 - Maine. C) Civil War. D) 1902 - Major General.

( E) 1903 - Retires. F) 12/26/1915 - Washington, D.C. - Dies.

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A) 1st State - 8 hour workday law.

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1. Francis Bellamy:

A) Writes: "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag." B) To commemorate:

I. 400th Anniversary. II. Columbus discovering America.

2. The People's Party is founded - Become known as "Populists": A) Made up of:

I. All aspects of discontented Am. Society. B) Beliefs:

I. Unity of all working people. II. Graduated income tax. III. Government ownership of the Railroads. IV. Government ownership of the Telegraph

System. V. Redistribution of lands owned by the

Railroads. C) Are NOT supported by:

I. Wage Earners. II. Industrial Employees.

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Annie McDougal & dennie Metcalf 1. Annie McDougal:

A) Comes from a poor family. B) Alias: "Cattle A~nie."

2. Jennie Metcalf: A) Comes from a poor family. B) Always wears men's pants, thus, her alias:

"Little Britches."

3. Steal cattle and horses - Peddle whiskey to the Indians.

4. 1894 - Old ranch House - Captured by Deputy U.S. Marshals led by Bill Tilghman and Steve Burk: A) Tried - Guilty - Federal Penitentiary at

Farmington, Massachusetts: I. Time - Released. II. Annie: Respectable life - Dies a natural

death. III. Jennie: Dies doing religious work in the

slums of New York.

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1892 * Henry Starr '*

1. Henry Starr: A) Born - December 2, 1873 - Fort Gibson, Indian

Territory (Oklahoma). B) % Anglo and y.. Cherokee Indian. C) Nephew of Belle Starr. D) Educated in Cherokee Indian schools. E) During 6th grade year - Has to quit - Work on father's

farm. F) Age 14 - Family moves to Coffeyville, Kansas. G) 5 feet 9 inches tall - Strong - Athletic build - Black hair -

Brown eyes. H) Never smokes. I) Never drinks liquor, coffee, or tea. J) By age 17 - Good with a pistol. K) Loves excitement and danger. L) Cunning - Intelligent - Loyal to friends. M) Becomes known as "The Bearcat."

2. 1890 - Job in a bank: A) Banker accuses him of stealing - Fires him! B) Wasn't gUilty!!!!! C) From this moment on he hates banks!

3. June 1891 - Holds a suitcase for a friend: A) Stopped and searched by 2 U.S. Deputy Marshals. B) Find bootleg whiskey in the suitcase! C) Accuse him of selling it to the Indians. D) Jail.

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4. February 1892 - Arrested while riding a borrowed horse: A) Owner claims he has stolen the horse! B) Jailed - Fort Smith, Arkansas. C) Few days later - Released. D) Now, convinced the world is against him!

5. September 21, 1892 - Nowata, Oklahoma - With 2 others -Robs the Missouri Pacific Railroad Station - $1,700.00: A) Few days later - Taken to fort Smith, Arkansas. B) 3 Indian friends post his $2 thousand bail. C) Jumps bail and flees. D) The 3 friends now offer a reward for him!

6. October 1892 - Lenapah, Oklahoma - Robs a country store.

7. November 1892 - Sequoyah, Oklahoma - Robs a country store.

8. Kills gunfighter, murderer, Bill Moon.

9. December 1892 - Gunfight with U.S. Deputy Marshal, Floyd Wilson: A) Starr kills him!

10. Joins the Bill Cook Gang: A) Participates in 3 robberies. B) Quits the gang.

11. Organizes his own gang - 6 members.

12. Chelsea, Oklahoma - Railroad Station!

13. Pryor Creek, Oklahoma - M. K and T. railroad.

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14. Nowata, Oklahoma - Store.

15. Aldrich, Missouri - Bank.

16. Caney Valley, Kansas - Bank.

17. June 5, 1893 - Bentonville, Arkansas - Bank - $11,000.00: A) Ride out under fire. B) Gang member, Bud Tyler is wounded and dies! C) Gang member, LinkCumplin has 1 eye shot out and 10

body wounds: I. Goes to Alaska - Killed during a robbery.

D) Gang splits up.

18. Rewards totaling $25 thousand are offered for Starr dead or alive.

19. He, Kid Wilson, and Starr's girlfriend, May Morrison head for California.

20. July 2, 1893 - Colorado Springs, Colorado - Identified-Arrested by Pinkerton Detectives: A) Morrison is released. B) Starr and Wilson are taken to Fort smith, Arkansas. C) Attempt to break out - Fails. D) Wilson ..... 24 years in the Federal Prison in Brooklyn,

New York. E) Starr - Guilty on 9 counts of robbery.

21. August 1893 - Former gang member, Happy Jack is killed by U.S. Marshals.

22. October 12, 1893 - Starr - Guilty - 1st Degree Murder of

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Floyd Wilson: A) Sentenced to be hanged on February 20, 1894. B) Appeal - New trial. C) Prevents Cherokee Bill from breaking out of Fort

Smith.

23. 1894 - Former gang member, Frank Cheney is killed by U.S. Marshals.

24. 2nd trial - Guilty - To hang on July 25, 1895: A) More appeals. B) Supreme Court sets aside his death sentence.

25. October 6, 1897 - Pleads guilty to manslaughter -15 years: A) Federal Prison at Columbus, Ohio. B) Model prisoner. C) January 16, 1903 - Age 29 - Pardoned by President

Teddy Roosevelt.

26. Works in his mother's cafe.

27. Real estate office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

28. Law office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

29. Marries a school teacher - She is also part Cherokee: A) Son - "Theodore Roosevelt Starr."

30. 1907 - Oklahoma becomes a state: A) Arkansas demands the extradition of Starr for the

Bentonville robbery. B) Fearing extradition - Leaves family and businesses -

Rejoins Kid Wilson.

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32. Amity, Colorado - Bank: A) He and Wilson separate. B) Starr learns - Too late - NO EXTRADITION!!! C) Wife divorces him!

33. May 5, 1909 - Tempe, Arizona - Arrested by 3 U.S. Deputy Marshals for the Amity robbery: A) 7 to 25 years. B) Canon City, Colorado Prison. C) Model prisoner. D) Serves 5 Y2 years. E) 1914 - Pardoned.

34. Cafe in Holly, Colorado - Fails!

35. With another man's wife the 2 leave Colorado together.

36. May 1914 - Oklahoma - Starts a series of robberies averaging 2 weeks apart.

37. September 8, 1914 to January 13, 1915 - Robs 14 Oklahoma banks.

38. March 27, 1915 - Stroud, Oklahoma - He, Lewis Estes, Bud Maxfield, and Claude Sawyer rob both town banks at the same time: A) $5,600.00 total. B) Riding out - 17 year old, Paul Curry opens fire on them

with a Winchester! C) Starr is knocked from his horse by a bullet that enters

his hip and exits his thigh breaking the bone. D) Estes is hit in the neck the bullet exiting and shattering

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his collarbone - He will die from the wound! E) Maxfield and Sawyer are captured a few days later.

39. Starr - Recovers - Trial- August 20, 1915 is given 25 years in the Oklahoma State Prison: A) Reforms "AGAIN!" B) March 15, 1919 - Paroled!

40. Motion picture company: A) Plays himself - Silent movie - "A Debtor To The Law." B) Makes no money!

41. February 22,1920 - Marries again.

42. February 18, 1921 - Harrison, Arkansas - Bank - He and 3 others enter: A) Orders cashier, William Myers into the vault. B) Inside vault is a shotgun. C) Starr turns back - Myers, shotgun, blasts his spine in

two! D) Other 3 run away. E) Starr in jail - Doctor. F) Night of February 21, 1921 - Dies at age 47.

43. 29 of his 47 years spent as a robber: A) Robs 48 banks ..... more than any other north American

outlaw! B) Never killed a man in a robbery! C) Last of the horseback outlaws! D) 1st criminal to use automobile in a robbery!

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1. Bill Doolin: A) 6 feet 2 inches tall - Red hair - Drooping mustache. B) Cowboy in Oklahoma. C) Member, of the Dalton Gang for a period of time. D) Organizes his own gang.

2. Bill Dalton: A) Brother of the Dalton Gang members. B) Member of the California legislature. C) Back to Oklahoma. D) Joins up with Bill Doolin. E) Co-leader of the gang.

3. Other gang members: A) George Newcombe:

I. Raised in Oklahoma - Very religious family. II. Alias ..... "Bitter Creek."

B) Roy Daugherty: I. Oklahoma - Very religious family - Cowboy. II Ali "A ka T " . as ..... r nsas om.

C) Bill Raidler: I. From Pennsylvania - Oklahoma works as a cowboy. II. Alias ..... "Little Bill."

D) Dick West: I. From Texas - Small but strong and tough. II. Cowboy. ill. Alias ..... "Little Dick."

E) Jack Blake: I. Alias ..... "Tulsa Jack."

F) Oliver Y ountis:

( I. Alias ..... "Crescent Sam." G) George Waightman:

I. Horse thief - Cold blooded killer. II. Alias ..... "Red Buck."

H) Charlie Pierce: I. Texas - Cowboy.

I) Dan Clifton: I Ali "D ·t D· k." . as ..... ynamI e IC

4. November 8, 1892 - Perry, Oklahoma - Rob a train.

5. November 1892 - Caney, Kansas - Rob Missouri and Pacific train.

6. November 27, 1892 - Spearville, Kansas - 1st National Bank­$4,500.00!

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7. Few days later - U.S. Marshals find Oliver Yountis in his home at Orlando, Oklahoma: A) Surround house. B) Daybreak - Y ountis steps into yard. C) Yelled at and told to surrender - He opens fire! D) Gunbattle. E) Shot by U.S. Marshal Chris Madsen - Dies that night!

8. June 1893 - Cimarron, Kansas - California/Santa Fe Express train - Kill the express messenger!

9. August 1893 - Perry, Oklahoma - Rob 2 trains!!!

10. Gang rides to Ingalls, Oklahoma - Favorite hideout: A) Citizens shelter them! B) Buy their ammunition and supplies here.

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D) Town: I. Drugstore - 2 grocery stores - Dry goods store - 2

blacksmith shops - Cotton gin - Flour mill - 2 saloons - 2 restaurants - Barber shop - Shoe shop - 2 livery stables - Combination hotel/whorehouse.

E) Learned by U.S. Marshals that the gang is there: I. Plans are made to attack them there!

11. September 1, 1893 - Two wagons containing U.S. Deputy Marshals stop outside Ingalls - 13 men in all: A) Find out - 7 outlaws in town - 6 in saloon and 1 in the

hotel. B) Lawmen quietly enter town - Scatter and hide! C) George Newcombe is shot and wounded in the leg by

Dick Speed opening the battle! D) Speed is shot and killed from a window in the hotel's

2nd story by Daugherty! E) Tremendous firing - Newcombe escapes out of town. F) Stable boy is killed in the crossfire! G) Citizen shot thru the lungs. H) 2 more citizens wounded. I) From hotel attic - Daugherty shoots Tom Houston twice,

in the left side and stomach! J) Outlaws - Livery stable - Horse - Ride out 2 different

directions firing! K) Bill Dalton shoots Lafe Shadley 3 times! L) A 14 year old citizen is wounded. M) 6 of the outlaws have escaped! N) Just before noon - Daugherty - Hotel - Surrenders! 0) Night - Deputies, Shadley and Houston die! P) Totals:

I. 3 Deputies and 1 Citizen killed!

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Q) Daugherty - Tried - 50 years in the Oklahoma Penitentiary.

12. January 1894 - Pawnee, Oklahoma - Bank.

13. March 1894 - Woodward, Oklahoma - Train station -$6,500.00!

14. Bill Doolin marries Edith Ellsworth - Faithful to each other - 1 child.

15. Store robbery - Kill owner in front of family!

16. Dalton and Newcombe - Store robbery - Owner shoots and wounds Newcombe - Dalton shoots and kills the owner!

17. Southwest City, Missouri - Doolin and 5 others - Bank: A) Huge street gunfight. B) 2 citizens killed. C) Doolin - Wounded. D) Get away with $15 thousand.

18. 3 days later - Longview, Texas - Robbery - Dalton is the leader - Huge street gunfight in getaway - 1 citizen killed and 2 wounded.

19. May 1895 - Dover, Oklahoma - Rock Island Train and passengers: A) Running gunfight with posse:

I. Jack Blake is shot and killed! B) Stop at preacher's house to steal a horse:

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20. Blackwell, Oklahoma - Posse kills Dick Clifton!

21. July 1895 - Dunn Brothers ranch - Oklahoma - George Newcombe and Charlie Pierce are surrounded by U.S. Deputy Marshals: A) Gunfight - Both are shot and killed.

22. Sam Moore Ranch - Oklahoma - Bill Raidler - Hiding -Trailed there by U.S. Deputy Marshals Bill Tilghman and Heck Thomas: A) Gunfiglit - Raidler and Tilghman are wounded:

I. He recovers - Tried - Federal prison - Paroled. II. Quiet life - Natural death.

23. September 1895 - Ardmore, Oklahoma - Bill dalton staying with ·family: A) House surrounded by 9 U.S. Deputy Marshals. B) He runs for it firing. C) Shot and killed by Deputy, Loss Hart.

24. October 2, 1895 - Arapaho, Oklahoma - George aightman attempts to rob the bank: A) Shot and killed by a U.S. Deputy Marshal.

25. Eureka Springs, Arkansas - Bill Doolin - Captured by U.S. Deputy Marshal, Bill Tilghman: A) Gutherie, Oklahoma - Jail - Escapes!

26. July 1896 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Father-In-Law's house:

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A) Watched by Marshals. B) Doolin rides up. C) Gunbattle. D) Blown off horse by 2 shotgun blasts and a rifle shot -

Dead. E) Rifle slug in right side - 21 buckshot in body.

27. April 7, 1898 - Gutherie, Oklahoma - Herman Arnett Ranch - In hiding is Dick West: A) Trailed. B) Gunfight. C) Shot and killed by Deputy Marshals, Heck Thomas and

Bill Tilghman.

28. After 14 years in prison - Roy Daugherty - Paroled: A) Motion pictures. B) Plays himself in movie "The Passing Of The Oklahoma

Outlaws." I. Biggest investor in the movie is ..... Bill Tilghman!!

C) BUT he robs another bank: I. Captured - Missouri State Prison. II. Paroled. ill. August 16,1924 - Robs another bank- Shot and

killed by law officers!!

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The .Jones Brothers 1. John and Jim Jones:

A) Raised in Missouri. B) Move to Colorado. C) Rob trains. D) Rob banks. E) Commit murder.

2. Hamilton County, Texas - Kill a Sheriff.

3. August 11, 1900 - Hugo, Colorado: A) Rob a Union Pacific Train.

( B) Running gunfight with a Posse. C) Take refuge in a ranch house. D) Gun battle. E) House is set on fire. F) Jim Jones commits suicide! G) John Jones comes out firing:

I. Shot and killed.

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1. April 19, 1892 - Charles Duryea: A) Springfield, Massachusetts. B) America's 1st

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I. Gasoline Buggy Automobile.

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1. The Homestead Mill Strike: A) Andrew Carnegie's mill at Homestead,

Pennsylvania: I. On the Monongahela River.

B) Workers strike.

C) Henry Clay Fricke, Carnegie's partner: I. Breaks off talks with the Union.

D) Fricke plans on using Non-Union labor! E) July 6th

- From the river, 300 Detectives try to land:

I. Prevented from doing so by: (1) Gunfire. (2) Threat of a Cannon.

F) Week later: I. Governor orders in the State Militia. II. They protect the working strikebreakers!

G) PERFECT example of: I. Corporations being backed by the

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August 4, 1892 The Lizzie Borden Case

1. Fall River, Massachusetts: A) 65,000 population. B) Many of the town's laborers work in Mr.

Andrew Borden's textile factories.

2. The Borden Family: A) Andrew Borden:

I. Father - 70 years old. II. Wealthy - Net worth is over $500

thousand. III. Casket Maker - Undertaker - Property

Speculator - Banker - Textile Factory Owner.

IV. NOT generous. V. NOT charitable •

. VI. Tightwadl VII. Miserl VIII. NO sense of humor. IX. 15t wife dies ••• Re-marries.

B) Abby Borden: I. 64 years old - Andrew Borden's 2 nd wife. II. Stepmother to his two daughters.

III. Fatl C) Emma Borden:

I. 41 years old. II. Daughter.

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D) Lizzie Borden: I. 32 years old - Daughter. II. Curly, red hair. III. Pale complexion. IV. Large eyes. V. Considered to be "plain" in looks. VI. Moody. VII. Demure. VIII. Well-mannered. IX. NOT a snob. X. Not many friends, BUT, those she has

think highly of her. XI. Likes money and wealth. XII. IS generous and charitable. XIII. Teaches Sunday School. XIV. Is a Kleptomaniac. xv. HATES her stepmother!!!

(1) The two barely speak to each other. (2) Will not eat at the same table unless

forced to do so! (3) Lizzie believes she is after her father's

money!

3. The Borden Residence: A) Run-down, two story, 3 bedroom house. B) Number #92 - On 2nd Street. C) Andrew can afford to install electricity and

indoor plumbing ••• BUT ••• Won't!!!

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A) Lizzie reports Abby's room broken into: I. Claims a thief has gone through it. II. Police are called ••• lnvestigate. III. Andrew calls off the search when he

finds ••• Lizzie has taken the articlesl

5. Summer of 1892: A) Twice, intruders break into the Borden

storage building: I. Back of the house in the garden.

B) Andrew believes they are after Lizzie's pigeons ••• She loves animals:

I. He gets a hatchet. II. As she watches ••• He chops all of their

heads offl

6. Summer of 1892: A) Lizzie starts buying regular doses of prussic

acid from the town druggist: I. Lethal poison used to get rid of pests. II. Can't get it without a prescription. III. She has one.

B) Sickness in the Borden house: I. Abby is convinced she is being poisonedl II. Doctor examines ••• NO ••• Food poisoningl

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A) Warm and humid. B) Emma ••• Out of town:

I. Staying at friends. C) Up early is 59 year old, "Uncle" ~ohn Morse:

I. Is a guest in the house. II. Abby's brother.

D) 26 year old, Irish Maid, Bridget Sullivan: I. Doing chores. II. Not feeling well.

E) 7:00 - Morning - Abby - "Not feeling well": I. Goes across the street to see Dr. Seabury

Bowen. II. Complains of sickness. III. He examines her. IV. Finds ••• Food poisoningl!l

(1) BAD mutton stewl (2) Andrew will not allow any food to be

thrown out ••• ALL is eatenlll (3) Bridget Sullivan has also eaten the

stew. F) 7:30 - Morning:

I. Andrew, Abby, and Uncle ~ohn Morse eat breakfast.

G) 8:45 - Morning: I. Uncle ~ohn Morse leaves. II. Goes into town to conduct some

business. H) Lizzie comes downstairs.

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I) Bridget Sullivan goes outside: I. To clean windows •

.J) Abby starts housework: I. Dusting and cleaning.

K) Andrew leaves: I. Goes into town ••• Business.

L) 9:00 - Morning - Lizzie SAYS: I. Messenger boy arrives. II. Note for Abby. III. Request from a sick friend to come and

visit. (1) NO note will ever be foundl (2) A young, male, stranger, will be

spotted outside the house at this time: a. Is unknown. b. Stays only a short time. c. Disappears.

M) 9:30 - Morning: I. Abby is upstairs in the guest room

cleaning. II. Someone ... Behind ••• Hatchet ••• Skulil III. Killed instantly. IV. Dies in a kneeling position. V. Head struck ••• 20 times total. VI. Skull is crushed. VII. All over the walls, ceiling, and floor are:

(1) Chunks of blood, brain tissue, scalp, and skull.

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N) 10:40 - Morning: I. Andrew returns from town. II. Front door is bolted from the inside. III. He knocks. IV. Bridget Sullivan opens. V. He enters. VI. At the top of the stairs ••• Lizzie laughs! VII. Tells her father Abby has received a

note from a sick friend to visit and is not there!

(1) Fact ••• Abby has never left! 0) Bridget Sullivan goes up to her attic room

to lay down and rest. P) Andrew goes into the den:

I. Sits on the sofa to rest. Q) Lizzie SAYS she leaves him for about 20

minutes!! R) Lizzie returns:

I. Finds father ••• Dead! II. Hatchet ••• 10 blows to the head from

above. III. Laying on his side ••• Coat folded ••• Under

what's left of his head. IV. Face is unrecognizable. V. Nose is severed. VI. Right eye is cut in half. VII. Left eye is nearly severed from it's

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S) Bridget Sullivan hears Lizzie yell: I. "Come down quick. Father's dead,

somebody came in and killed him." T) Lizzie walks next door to the neighbors:

I. "Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father."

U) Lizzie is asked by Mrs. Churchill: I. "Where's your mother?"

(1) Reply: "I don't know!" V) Churchill and Sullivan search the house:

I. Find Abby's body! W) 11 :45 - Morning - 7 police officers are on

the scene: I. They ask Lizzie: "Are there any hatchets

in the house?" (1) Reply: "Everywhere."

a. Later ••• At inquest ••• She claims she didn't know if there were any hatchets in the house!!

X) Police search the house: I. Find 4 hatchets. II. One ••• Rusty! III. One ••• dusty and old! IV. One ••• Covered with ashes and has a

recently broken handle. V. One ••• Dried blood and hair on it ••• Animall

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them! Y) Basement ••• Police find a pail:

I. Small bloody cloths soaking. II. Lizzie ••• From her period!!

Z) Lizzie is questioned: I. "Where did you go for the 20 minutes after

you left your father?" (1) Reply ••• Storage building to get lead

to mend a screen and make some fishing sinkers.

(2) Claims she hears a noise - Looks -Sees the screen door is open.

II. BUT ••••• : (1) There are no screens in need of

repair! (2) There is no lead to make sinkers! (3) Dust on the floor has not been

disturbed! AA) Everybody's alibi checks out ••• EXCEPT

Lizzie's!!! BB) All of Lizzie's clothing is inspected:

I. No blood spattered garments. II. One shoe has a speck of blood on the

Sole. III. Her underskirt has a spot of blood, about

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CC) Night - Policeman is left to guard the house:

I. Sees Lizzie go into the basement. II. Watches her go to the sink:

(1) Can't see what she does.

8. Saturday - August 6, 1892: A) Funerals for Andrew and Abby. B) Lizzie and Emma offer a $5 thousand

reward for the killer or killers. C) Lizzie is informed she is a suspect. D) Alice Russell and Emma Borden watch

Lizzie burn a dressll I. Stains ••• PAINTI

9. December 1, 1892 - Inquest: A) Alice Russell testifies about the dress

burning: I. Alice says she could see no stains. II. Emma Borden testifies it had BLUE

PAINT stains on itl

10. December 2, 1892 - Lizzie is charged with the double homicidel

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A) How could she murder a father she loved so dearly??!!

12. Lizzie hires George Robinson to defend her: A) Fee ••• $25 thousand. B) Robinson:

I. 59 years old. II. Ex-Governor of Massachusetts. III. Best attorney in the state.

13 • .Judge: A) "Dewey." B) Appointed by Robinson when Robinson was

Governor.

14 • .June 5, 1893 - Trial starts: A) Prosecutor asks:

I. Would an intruder hang around the house for 1 Y2 hours between victims?

II. Could an intruder have hidden in the house undetected?

(1) Defense: Yes! ••• Ground floor closet!! B) Prosecution points out:

I. No sign of any forced entry! II. Robbery or burglary is not the motive! III. Front door is bolted from the inside all

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killer is standing! V. The killings have to have been planned! VI. Intruder?? ••• Lizzie stays in the house

EVEN after discovering her father's body! (1) Wouldn't a normal person flee???

15 • .lune 20, 1893 - 4:32 - Afternoon - "Not guilty!"

16. Lizzie and Emma split the inherited wealth: A) Emma moves away. B) Lizzie builds a fancy home with servants. C) Lizzie quits the Church. D) Walking ••• Chiidren skipping rope:

I. "Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother 40 whacks; And, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41 !"

17. 1926 - Gall bladder surgery - Complications: A) .lune 1, 1927 - At age 66 - Dies:

I. Buried next to Andrew and Abby.

18. F.B.I. profilers ••• Andrew has an incestuous relationship with Lizzie!!!

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I. About 4 spells per year. II. Theory ••• Has a spell.

(1) Naked ••• Murders Abby ••• Washes up with cloths and pail.

(2) Re-dresses ••• Father comes home. (3) Puts father's overcoat on to protect

against spatter. (4) The incest. (5) Murders him. (6) Takes off coat ••• Folds ••• Places under

what remains of his head. (7) Washes in pail. (8) Back to room ••• Remembers NOTHINGII

III. Makes sense: (1) Why?? •• Andrew would NEVER use his

coat for a pillow.

1892 - August 1. August 30, 1892 - Hamburg/American Liner, the

"Monrovia": A) Passengers bring 1 st Cholera to America.

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1892 - October 1. October 15, 1892 - President Benjamin Harrison:

A) Opens 1.8 million acres of the Crow Indian

Reservation land in Montana to White

settlers!!

( 1892 - November 1. Presidential Election:

A) Democrat, Grover Cleveland. B) 24th President.

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1. Thomas Edison invents the Kinetoscope: A) Makes motion pictures possible.

2. Salt Lake City, Utah: A) Mormon Temple is dedicated:

I. Has taken 40 years to build. 11. Cost •••• $12 million!!!

3. Financial Crisis of massive business failures &

unemployment: A) Caned "The Panic of 1893." B) Reasons:'

I. Many Railroads go bankrupt. II. Over 500 Banks go bankrupt. III. 15,000 Businesses go bankrupt. IV. High unemployment. V. Widespread I'abor unrest. VI. Strikes nationwide. VII. Deflation increases.'

4. Eugene Debs: A) Forms the American Railway Union.

5. Big Business labels union members as "Primitive

Tribes."

6. Chicago, Illinois:

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(1) Greatest World's Fair of the century. (2) 25 million visitors.

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1. Both - Former members of the AI .Jennings Gang: A) Gang breaks up! B) Two go on their own carrying out robberies.

2. Electra, Texas - Crawford, Lewis, .Joe Beckham, Billy Loftis, and a man known as "Buck": A) Rob the Bank and the General Store:

I. Get $4,900.00! II. Lewis kills the Store clerk! III. Crawford kills 2 innocent bystanders,

one of them a woman! IV. Lewis wounds a Texas ranger in the leg

during the escape. B) Chased by Texas Rangers:

I. Gang sets up an ambush. II. Rangers ride into it - Big gunfight • 2 of

them are killed, 6 are wounded, and 2 escape.

III. Beckham has been killed! IV. "Buck" is badly wounded - Placed on

horse - Gets away. V. Next moming: Lewis knows "Buck" will

not make it - Blows his head off!

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3. February 24, 1896 - Wichita Falls, Texas -Crawford, Lewis, and Loftis - Rob the City National Bank: A) Lewis kills cashier, Frank Dorsey and

wounds bookkeeper, H.H. Langford: I. Get away with $6 hundred!

B) Texas Rangers chase them: I. Loftis gets away. II. Lewis and Crawford are surrounded in a

thicket! III. Surrender. IV. Taken back to the jail at Wichita Falls. V. Rangers leave.

C) Night - February 25, 1896 - Mob takes the 2 men from the jail:

I. Lynched from a telephone pole!

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1893 - March 1. March 4, 1893 - Presidential Inauguration - 56

year old, Democrat, Grover Cleveland - 24th President:

A) 2 nd Term ••• BUT ••• NOT consecutive. B) ONLY President ••• Non-Consecutive Terms.

C) Reason: I. One less man than Presidents.

D) July 1, 1893: I. New York City Harbor.

II. Private Yacht ••• Operating Room. III. Operation ••• Sarcoma (Cancer) ••• Upper left

jaw. IV. Successful.

V. Replaced ••• Rubber.

E) 6/24/1906 - Age 71 - Dies.

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.John Thompson - Outlaw 1. John Thompson:

A) Alias: "Kid Thompson." B) Teams up with a man named "Johnson."

2. December 1893 - Near Los Angeles, Califomia: A) Rob a train.

3. February 1895 - Near Los Angeles, California: A) Rob a train. B) Get $12 thousand. C) Bury the money on Johnson's Ranch near

Tonto Creek in Arizona: I. Later - Johnson ships Thompson his share

of the money in Phoenix. II. Thompson spends the money freely in

Phoenix and Tempe.

4. Summer - 1895 - Lawmen discover the 2 men are train robbers: A) Both arrested. B) Tried - Guilty - Yuma Territorial Prison.

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1. Niagara Falls, New York:

A) 1st city in America ••• Hydroelectric Power on a large scale.

2. The Pullman Strike: A) Summer. B) Chicago, Illinois. C) American Railway Union vs. Confederation of

24 Railroad Companies. D) Workers are led by the President of their

Union, Eugene Debs. E) U.S. Army is sent to Chicago:

I. Enrages the workers. F) Workers block the Railroad tracks! G) Workers burn Railroad cars! H) Police arrest 100's! I) Debs is arrested!

I. 6 months in jail. II. Result ••• He becomes a confirmed Socialist!

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Ben Cravens - Outlaw 1. Operates in Oklahoma.

2. Robbery with a man named "Welty": A) After - Cravens has no further use for

"Welty" so he shoots him: I. Leaves him for dead. II. BUT, "Welty" will recover.

3. Eventually - Captured by U.S. Deputy Marshal, Frank Canton: A) Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. B) Cravens and others kill a guard and escape. C) All are captured or killed except Cravens.

4. Sapulpa, Oklahoma - Cravens gets into a gunfight with U.S. Deputy Marshal, Steve Burk: A) Burk shoots the gun out of his hand. B) Surrenders. C) Back to prison - Serves time - Released -

Peaceful life in Oklahoma - Dies a natural death.

1894 Grant Wheeler - Outlaw

1. Grant Wheeler: A) Teams up with .Joe George. B) Rob trains.

2 • .January 3, 1895 - Between Cochise and Wilcox - In Arizona: A) Rob a Southern Pacific Train. B) Use too much dynamite - Blow the top off

the Express Car. C) Get $8 thousand!

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4. Wheeler goes to Deming, New Mexico: A) Spends the stolen money. B) Saloon fight - Badly wounded - Recovers -

Heads for Arizona with a Posse trailing him!

5. April 25, 1895 - Mancos Canyon - Trapped: A) Gunfight. B) Last bullet - Blows out own brains

committing suicide!

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1894 The Cheyenne Incident

1. Two young Cheyenne: A) Head Chief. B) Young Mule.

2. Are insulted by a rancher: A) They shoot and kill him.

3. Are massively hunted by the law and the cavalry.

4. Decide to die "honorably."

5. Ride to a rendevouz with death: A) Charge an entire regiment of cavalry:

I. Shot to pieces.

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1894 The Bill Cook Gang

1. Bill Cook: A) Born - Oklahoma - December 19, 1873. B) Farmhand. C) Cowboy. D) Sometimes, helps U.S. Deputy Marshals. E) .June 1894 - Organizes an outlaw gang:

I. Elmer Lucas: a. Former Cowboy. b. Alias: "Chicken."

II. Thurman Baldwin: a. Tall and thin. b. Former Cowboy. c. Alias: "Skeeter."

III. Henry Munson. IV. Curtis Dason. V. Lon Gordon. VI. Crawford Goldsby:

a. Born - Ft. Concho, Texas - February 8, 1876.

b. Mixture of: Mexican, Anglo, Sioux, Cherokee, and Black!

c. By age 18 ••••• 0utlaw and Murderer. d. Alias: "Cherokee Bill." e • .June of 1894 - Kills Lawman,

Sequoyah Houston. f. Kills George Brown for beating his

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F) Robberies throughout Oklahoma and the entire Indian Territory.

2. 1894: A) Rob a railroad station:

I. Goldsby kills the Agent, Richard Richards. B) Rob a train:

I. Goldsby kills the Conductor, Samuel Collins.

C) Chandler, Oklahoma - Rob a bank.

3. August 2, 1894 - Sapulpa, Oklahoma - Gun battle with a Posse: A) Munson and Gordon are killedl B) Lucas is captured:

I. Convicted in Judge Isaac Parker's court. II. 15 years in the Federal Penitentiary at

Detroit.

4. Baldwin is captured by Texas Rangers in Clay County, Texas: A) Convicted in Judge Isaac Parker's court

after pleading "Guilty": I. 30 years in the Federal Penitentiary at

Detroit. II. Says: "This is a hell of a court for a man

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5 • .January 11, 1895 - Ft. Sumner, New Mexico­Bill Cook is arrested: A) Tried before .Judge Isaac Parker on 12

counts of robbery: I. 45 years in the Federal Penitentiary at

Albany, New York.

6. Goldsby goes on a robbery and murder spree!

7. U.S. Deputy Marshals, Ike Rogers and Clint Scales set a trap for him: A) Use a girl named Maggie Glass. B) .January 29, 1895 • She lures him to her

home. C) Rogers is there - Goldsby is suspicious of

him. D) Goldsby makes a mistake - Leans over to

light a cigarette: I. Rogers hits him over the head with a stick

of firewood. II. Scales rushes in - Capture him.

E) Ft. Smith, Arkansas - Tried before .Judge Isaac Parker:

I. Guilty - Sentence is to hang!!

8 • .July 26, 1896 - Grabs Guard, Lawrence

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I. Outlaw, Henry Starr, enters Goldsby's cell.

II. Comes out with the gunll

9. March 17, 1896 - Ft. Smith, Arkansas - At, age 20 - Goldsby is hanged: A) Buried in Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma. B) Goldsby and the number "13":

I. Murdered 13 men. II. Sentenced to die on April 13th

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IV. 13 witnesses against him. V. The Bailiff and the dury make 13. VI. Trial lasts 13 hours. VII. Has fired 13 shots in his escape

attempt. VIII. 13 steps on the gallows. IX. 13 coils in the rope. X. Trap is sprung at 2:13 pm.

10. April 20, 1897 - Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma - 10:00 - Moming:

A) Train Statio.n - It has been 1 year, 1 month, and 3 days since Goldsby's hangingl

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B) Ike Rogers steps off the train: I. From 15 feet away - Goldsby's 19 year

old, brother, Clarence - Fires a pistol killing Rogers: a. Gets away! b. Never caught! c. Later dies of tuberculosis.

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1. Jacob Coxey:

A) Populist - Ohio Landowner:

I. Demands free Silver.

II. Demands a public road building program:

(1) Why? •• Hire 500,000 unemployed

Americans!

B) Wants America's unemployed to march on

Washington, D.C.

C) May 1894:

I. 500 man "Army" arrives in Washington, D.C.

D) Coxey is arrested.

E) U.S. Army disperses his followers.

( 1894 - June 1. June 28, 1894 - Congress:

A) Designates 1st Monday in September.

B) Holiday.

C) "Labor Day."

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A) Creates ••• The Bureau of Investigation.

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1. September 16, 1894 - Noon - Last Land Rush in America: A) 6 million acres. B) Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma.

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1. Grover Cleveland as President: . A) "Buddy" of J.P. Morgan.··

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I. Revives. II. BUT, farm prices and wages stay the same. III. He is a "Hard Money" supporter. (Gold) IV. He win use the Army to break strikes. (Pullman)

2. Brooks Adams - Writes - "The Law of Civilization and Decay": A) premise •••• The American Frontier is gone!!

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I. Need new ·ones in Asia.

3. Supreme Court: A) Allows injunctions to criminalize strikes.

4. Industrialists organize "The National Association of Manufacturers": A) Urge the Government to help open foreign markets.

5 •. People of America: A) Start leaving the rural areas: .

I. Move to cities, towns, and villages.

6. Professional Baseball: .A) Controlled by the National League. B) Black Americans are strictly banned!!!.

1895 James "Big Jim" Colosimo

1. Colosimo: A) Born - 1877 - Italy:

I. 1895 - Immigrates to America. ll. Chicago - Newsboy, shoe-shine boy, and street

sweeper. ID. Age 18 - Pimp:

*** Arrested and released. IV. Bagman for corrupt politicians.

B) Marries madam, Victoria Moresco: I. Takes over and manages her brothel. ll. Adds more brothels:

***25 cents - All black women. ***$1.00 - $5.00 - $50.00 and up.

Ill. He gets 60% of all fees. IV. Becomes known as "The King of Pimps."

C) America's 1st modern criminal: I. Expands into labor racketeering:

***Skims money from union membership fees. D) Becomes a millionaire:

I. Opens the fanciest, best, most elegant restaurant in Chicago: *** "Colosimo's Cafe."

2. 1910 - Colosimo's nephew, Johnny Torrio, goes to work for him: A) Born in February 1882 in Naples, Italy:

I. 1884 - Immigrates to America. ll. 1909 - Arrives in Chicago. ID. Doesn't smoke, drink, or gamble. IV. Doesn't like obscene language.

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v. Eats very little. VI. Is very loyal and true to his wife .. No mistresses. VII. Loves music. VIII. Keeps a regular schedule every day. IX. Will regard the whores as commodities to be

bought, sold, and replaced when "worn out." B) Will stop a Blackband Operation against his uncle Jim:

I. Will become known as "Terrible John" or "Little John."

ll. Will not hesitate to order a murder but personally dislikes violence.

3. 1910 .. Chicago .. 1,020 brothels: A) Net $15 million in one year! B) Also .•.•• :

I. Independent call girls. ll. Street walkers.

***These 2 groups net $10 million in one year! C) Average whore lasts 5 years. D) White slavery exists!

I. Starts in Chicago in 1890's. ll. Mary Hastings "lures" 13 to 17 year old women to

Chicago: ***Placed in bordellos .. Professionally raped! ***Sold for $50 to $300 to bordellos.

4. Colosimo divorces Moresco and marries 19 year old show girl, Dale Winter: A) Is totally devoted to her:

I. Lets Torrio run everything. . f'Y"i£

of: if' 5. Torrio becomes "The Father of Modern Gangsferdom":

A) 1919 .. Torrio begs his uncle to branch out into hijacking and bootlegging:

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6. May 1920 - Torrio gives orders to one, .M Capone: A) Eliminate "Uncle Jim!" B) Capone contacts Frankie Yale in New York:

I. Yale agrees to "hit" Colosimo for $10 thousand!

7. Alphonse" AI" Capone: A) Born - January 17, 1899 - Brooklyn, New York! B) 4th grade education. C) Street fights - Petty thefts - Warehouse robberies­

Member of the 5 Points Gang. D) 5 feet 10 ~ inches tall- Heavy set. E) Very ugly, jagged, scar on the left cheek all the way to

the ear: I. Put there by Frank Galluccio with a switchblade. II. Capone - Comment - Galluccio's sister - "Cute ass!"

F) Works for Frankie Yale as a bouncer and bartender in Yale's "Harvard Inn."

G) 1919 - Arrested - Suspicion of murder - Released. H) 1920 - Torrio brings him to Chicago to be a part time

bodyguard and hitman: I. Idolizes Torrio. II. Works as a bouncer at "Colosimo's Cafe." ill. Keeps brothel Madams in line. IV. Collects brothel fees.

I) Makes about $2 thousand per week.

8. Tuesday - May 11, 1920 - Torrio calls Colosimo - Tells him he will have to personally .go to the cafe to sign for a load of Canadian whiskey arriving at 4:00 in the afternoon: A) Colosimo - "OK." B) 4:00 - Afternoon - Walks in. C) Yale - Hiding in phone booth.

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D) Steps out - Shoots in back of head killing instantly! E) Yale gets away.

9. In appreciation of his handling the "matter" Torrio puts Capone in charge of his "4 Dueces Cafe": A) Also puts him in charge of all his bars, gambling

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The Buck Gang - Outlaws 1. The 5 Gang Members:

A) Rufus Buck: I. Leader. II. Uche Indian. III. 22 years old.

B) Maomi .July: I. Creek Indian.

C) Sam Sampson: I. Creek Indian.

D) Lewis Davis: I. Creek Indian.

E) Lucky Davis: I. Y2 Creek Indian and Y2 Black.

2. Sunday - .July 28, 1895 - Afternoon - Near Okmulgee, Oklahoma: A) Rob Parkinson's Grocery Store:

I. U.S. Deputy Marshal, .John Garrett, rides up: a. Buck shoots and kills him!

3. Same day: A) Rape Mary Wilson. B) Rape a woman named "Ayers." C) Stop .Jim Staley - Rob him of his horse,

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4. August 4, 1895 - U-Bar Ranch on Grave Creek: A) Kill cowboy, Sam Houston:

I. Wound owner, Benton Callahan, then shoot one of his ears off.

5. August 5, 1895 - Rob Henry Hassen: A) All 5 then rape his wife, Rosetta.

6. August 6, 1895 - Rob a trader named "Callahan": A) Murder a small Black boy.

7. August 9, 1895 - Norberg, Oklahoma - Rob a Store: A) Then, rob an old man named "Knobble."

8. August 10, 1895 - Trapped by U.S. Deputy Marshals under Steve Burke: A) Gunfight - Surrender - Their 13 day spree of

murder, rape, and robbery is over! B) Taken to Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

9. September 23, 1895 - The 5 Gang Members are tried before Judge Isaac Parker: A) Jury takes only 3 minutes - Guilty!

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1894 - November 1. November 28, 1895 - 1st Automobile Race in

American history: A) Heart of Chicago, Illinois to the suburbs:

I. 54 miles. B) Winner ••• J.F. Duryea:

I. Averages ••• 7 Y2 miles per hour!

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1. R.F.D. is started by the Federal Government: A) Rural Free delivery.

2. Athens, Greece - Olympic Games: A) Absent ••• 1,504 years.

B) Start of the Modern Olympic Games. C) 1st Champion ••• John Connally:

I. American ••• Harvard Freshman.

3. Mary Church Terrell: A) Founder of:

I. The National Association of Colored Women: (1) Motto: "Lifting as we climb."

4. George Washington Carver: A) Black - Born 1864 - Diamond Grove, Missouri. B) Born to Slave Parents. C) Illiterate until age 20. D) 1896 - Masters in Agriculture - Iowa State

University. E) Also becomes a Chemist. F) Work is primarily done at Tuskegee Institute

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G) Work produces their diversity in: I. Plastics. II. Dyes. III. Medicines. IV. Lubricants. V. Etc.

H) Helps end the single crop economy of the

South. I) 1943 - Dies.