Big Nose George Parrott earned his name by his face, and his place as Wyoming Territory's most notorious outlaw by his deeds. But he lives on because of his skin.
Big Nose was a nasty guy who robbed stagecoaches for fun and killed people for sport—including two Carbon County deputy sheriffs in 1878. He was sentenced to hang and held in the Rawlins jail, where he almost escaped. That's all the men in town needed to decide it was time for Big Nose to meet the devil.
They dragged him out of
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