June of 2006 has been declared Outlaw Month in the History Department at Suite 101. To assist you in following the Suite 101 Outlaw Trail I have compiled a list of western outlaws currently riding through the pages of this site.
You'll find all sorts of Outlaw tales of the Wild West here and a lot more besides.
Henry McCarty was The Kid's rightful name. The Billy the Kid handle was hooked onto him a few years later, as a teen, when he first started hanging out with older men.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Outlaw That Got Away-Or Did He?.
Did Butch Cassidy, famed leader of the notorious Wild Bunch gang of the late 1800s and early 1900s, escape the law? By one account the answer is "No." By another the answer could be "Yes, he evaded the laws in the United States but the law south of the border down Bolivia way got Cassidy along with his notorious pardoner Harry Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid." But here, too, there are numerous doubts and questions.
The mother of the Dalton brothers had a very real concern for her sons' future, and for good reason. While some of her sons started out as good up-standing law men there was seemingly a bad strain in the family's blood line. You see, Mrs. Dalton maiden name was Younger and her brother had three pretty wild and lawless sons by the name of Bob, Jim, and Cole Younger. And then there were a couple of distant cousins that went by the name of Frank and Jesse James.
Back in 1927 Dick Clarke, known by some as Deadwood Dick, flew to Washington D.C. and shook hands with President Coolidge. Later, in the early 1940s, when Dick went to that big roundup in the sky, most of the newspapers across the country wrote sorrowful stories about him. Those two occurrences, in them selves, don't sound exactly like big doings. At least they don't until you stop and consider that Deadwood Dick never existed.
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