Dutch Henry Borne (also spelled Born and Bourne) was one of the most prevalent and notorious livestock thieves in the West. It’s surprising he isn’t better-known.
Like Jacob Waltz, the “Lost Dutchman,” Dutch Henry was German. His parents were immigrants from Germany and he was born in Wisconsin. Sometime in the late 1860s he was arrested for stealing government mules around Fort Smith, Arkansas

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