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Screamin’ Sheb

Screamin’ Sheb

by Henry Cabot Beck

What was the largest outlaw gang—in terms of numbers of members—in the Old West? Butch & Sundance were hardly a gang, numbering a handful at most.

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Badges are traditionally placed on the left side of the chest, covering the heart. Why does a drawing of Marshal Henry Brown show a badge displayed on the right side in the September 2006 issue?

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In Custer, South Dakota, a downtown building sign states that it is the site of a saloon where Flyspeck Billy murdered Abe Barnes in February 1881. Can you tell me anything more about this?

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I’ve read that a cowboy worked “for forty (40) and found.”

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I read that an Arizona outlaw beat a check kiting charge by eating the evidence during the trial. True or false?

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In the Old West, did city marshals and county sheriffs have what we now call a police blotter?

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