The Outlaws continue with Jack McCall, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Joe Scott and Joaquin Murrietta.
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Jack McCall: in "Good-bye Bill: The Murder of Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok.
Although this article is about the death of Wild Bill it features Jack McCall who murdered Hickok while he was playing cards in a Deadwood, South Dakota saloon on August 2, 1876. It also features Martha "Calamity Jane" Canary. Although Calamity wasn't considered an outlaw, at one time or another she was called many things, ranging all the way from drunken hell-raiser to merciful administering angle during a small pox outbreak in a gold camp.
href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/great_american_plains/94974" target="_blank">Jesse James. This article wishes Mr. James a Happy Birthday in his early thirties, and hopes he will have many more birthdays-which he doesn't. Notorious outlaw Joaquin Murrietta may have been a victim of his times and the events that took place during those times. The times, and place, was the California Gold Rush. The events, among others, was the rape of his pretty wife by some gold miners and the fact that greedy white miners were against any nationality other than their own digging for and having gold. Joe Scott in Murder in Montana. Mollie Forrest was not much more than twenty-years-old when she married Joe Scott. He already had a bad reputation. It followed them when they moved to Helena, Montana in 1880. Moving on to Butte, Mollie worked to support her worthless husband until that fateful and dreadful day. The life of William Thompson, later known as Texas Billy, spanned forty-three violent years from the alleys and by-ways of Knottingley, England, where he was born in 1845, to the streets of Laredo, Texas, where he died in 1888. By the time that Hardin had turned 21 he had killed some 40 men. Longley was hanged three times. The last hanging took. Albert City, Iowa was a quiet little town in 1901. Then on November 16, three bank robbers changed all of that. Henry Thompson: A Montana Outlaw Waylon Jennings: In Memory of a Singing Outlaw.This is the End of the Outlaw Trail at Suite 101-for now
