What is the Bisbee Massacre?
Victoria Clark
Sedona, Arizona
On December 8, 1883, in the southeast Arizona town of Bisbee, five bad boys—Dan Dowd, Omer “Red” Sample, Dan Kelly, Billy Delaney and James “Tex” Howard—robbed the Goldwater-Castañeda store/bank. In the shoot-out that followed, dubbed the “Bisbee Massacre,” they killed four people, including a pregnant woman named Annie Roberts.
After the outlaws got away, a local saloonkeeper, John Heath, claimed he knew the men an
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