By the early 1900s the law was closing in and Butch was beginning to feel the pressure. He considered going to South America. The cattle...
The Demise of the Wild Bunch
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Pike Peaked!
Kid Curry vs. Pike Landusky Town's Namesake Laid Low as the Wildest of the Wild Bunch Takes Off December 27, 1894 Celebrating the holidays in...
Revenge – A Dish Best Served Cold
Kid Curry took his time in avenging his brother’s death. January 1896. The outlaw Logan brothers have a beef with rancher Jim Winters near Landusky,...
You Can’t Go Home Again
A posse trailed outlaw Lonnie Logan back to where he grew up. Lonnie Logan was the younger brother of Harvey Logan—Kid Curry—and rode the outlaw...
The Man Who Killed Kid Curry Stolen horses put Rolla Gardner on the outlaw’s trail.
Rolla Gardner had no plans to chase after some train robbers near Parachute, Colorado in June 1904. A posse was already on the trail. But then...
The Wilcox Train Robbery
Who were the outlaws who robbed the train at Wilcox, Wyoming in June 2nd, 1899? That depends on who you ask. One version of the story goes, Harvey...
A Bad Tip A ranch wife had bad advice for Kid Curry.
The story goes that Kid Curry and two pals were on the run after holding up a train near Parachute, Colorado. On June 9, 1904, they came to the...
Train Robber in Disguise The Wild Bunch held up a train…where another train robber was a passenger.
There’s an irony to a train robbery pulled by Kid Curry and two accomplices on June 7, 1904. They stopped the Denver and Rio Grande near Parachute,...
Vengeance For Flat Nose Kid Curry got revenge for his outlaw mentor.
Outlaw George Curry was better known as “Flat Nose” because of a facial deformity. In the 1880s, he was a criminal mentor to Harvey Logan, who...
Let Sleeping Outlaws Lie Sheriff Jesse Tyler awoke the wrong men.
Grand County (UT) Sheriff Jesse Tyler wasn’t expecting trouble on the morning of May 26, 1900. He and two deputies—on the lookout for members of...
Kid Curry’s Last Gunfight
June 9, 1904 Two days earlier, the westbound San Francisco Express—train no. 5—was robbed near a shipping station in Colorado known as Parachute....
Will Carver Checks Out
He was supposed to be taking just a little trip to Sonora, Texas, on a cool April night in 1901. He planned to check out the bank, map the best...