Josey Wales was based on a real man and one that was reputedly as tough, violent and vengeful as Wales. His family moved when he was two years old and he was raised on a farm near Old Evergreen, Texas, in present-day Lincoln, Lee County, Texas, where he spent a large part of his childhood learning to shoot. Written by Ronnie Atnip and published by NTXE-News ~ August 9, 2011. The Great Bushwacker had, himself, been bushwacked in the end. Wade Alsup A Texas outlaw, Alsup was lynched by 15 masked men in Blue, Texas, on June 27, 1877. After the war, there was a $300 bounty on bushwhackers. This character is another of the great mysteries in the American History of the outlaws. Sinker Wilson (18? Aragon shot him when tracked down by Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff Jasper Corn on October 26, 1884. Wilson.. Top 3 Results for Bill Outlaw. A few days later, while he was away from home, a group of Union soldiers, Jayhawkers and Red Legs rode to his house, ejected his family, took everything he had, and set fire to his house, barn and outbuildings. 56,376 views / 11,293 likes / 4,835 shares, (And the Bizarre Story Behind the Legend! He broke with the gang in 1898. They were all natives of the Ozark Mountains in Phelps County, Missouri. Bill Allen A Texas outlaw and robber, Allen occasionally rode with the Jesse Evans Gang. They have also lived in Houston, TX and Humble, TX. Library of Congress Card Number: 78-56979, This page was last edited on 20 May 2022, at 05:24. They vouch for Josey, saying he is a local. One of them was James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill). It was thought that no one could kill him. Later meeting up with Dave Rudabaugh, the three rode into White Oaks the following day and attempted to gun down deputy sheriff James Redman but were forced to flee after a crowd of 30 or 40 local residents took to the streets. The movie, The Outlaw Josie Wales, was released in 1976. Bill Wilson became known as The Great Bushwacker because he ambushed his many victims. John Joshua (J.J.) Webb (1847-1882) Both a lawman and an outlaw, Webb served as a Dodge City, Kansas Deputy Marshal before moving on to Las Vegas, New Mexico. He was shot and killed by Sam Perry in Hillsboro, New Mexico Territory on July 16, 1879. William Arnett (18? By Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated December 2021. The movie portrays Native Americans and especially an old Cherokee man as very sympathetically and fellow renegades and free spirits, like Wales. When Simp Dixon left North Texas, a Missouri Partisan Ranger, Sam Stone, let him set up an ambush in Stones woodlot to kill Judge Hardin Hart. After the Gunfight at the O.K. [6] There is no contemporaneous evidence to back claims that Longley murdered a black militiaman in Old Evergreen in 1866 for insulting his father, or that he shot eight black people in Lexington in 1867 to avenge the loss of a horse racing bet. William Walker (18? During the summer they also stole cattle from rancher John Newcomb and sold them along with an additional 20 beef cattle to butcher John Singer in Las Vegas, New Mexico. They ended up in a running gunfight with soldiers. Senate Bill 5453 would outlaw female genital mutilation, or FGM, the cutting or removal of female genitalia for non-medical reasons. He hid and watched the trail. By Kathy Weiser-Alexander, updated September 2020. A spy gained his confidence and killed him with one of his own guns. Longley claimed to have killed thirty-two people, mostly of African American heritage. His daring deeds are still considered miracles due to his never being wounded once. Together they robbed settlers, and in one instance killed a freed slave named Paul Brice in Bastrop County, Texas, after which they stole his horses. The military acted in all capacities, including law enforcement, which caused considerable resentment throughout the state. Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", "Boastful Bill Longley: Cold-blooded Texas Killer", "Wild Bill Longley - A Dangerous Man in Dangerous Times", "Bill Longley, his hangings, his grave and Giddings Cemetery", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Longley_(gunfighter)&oldid=1108903573, 19th-century executions of American people, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Bartholomew, Ed Ellsworth. His wife did re-marry, but soon moved back to the home that Bill bought just before going to Texas. Remember, the father of their modern education Elite beliefs is John Dewey. He was to receive ten dollars and two quarts of whiskey for the crime. "Curly Bill" Brocious (1845-1882) - An outlaw leader of the Clanton Gang of Arizona, Curly Bill was a vicious, drunken gunman, cattle rustler, and murderer. Bill Wilson was probably living around Sherman, Texas after the war. Bill moved his family into a one room cabin on his mothers farm and started on his quest. That was the end of Bills neutrality.. He was the last man hanged at Fort Smith, Arkansas on July 30, 1896. Bill Wilson robbed and burned many wagon trains by charging in. Accused of a murder he didnt commit, the Apache Kid fled and was soon blamed for virtually every unsolved crime in Arizona. When they approached, he stepped onto the road, stopped them, drew both revolvers and killed all four of them. He shaved his long beard to change his appearance. ?-1909) A gunfighter who was involved in a bitter feud in Ada, Oklahoma, was later arrested for the murder of Gus Bobbitt. Miller, Rick. This happened five miles south of Bonham, Texas. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced that year, but escaped jail and remained at large for nine years until captured early in 1876. He had owned several slaves but freed them before the War and advised his grown children remain as neutral as possible. Mr. Chiles was burnt out in Missouri before the war and moved his family to Sherman, Texas. Was he exhumed and buried in a cemetery or left by the road covered with a little dirt and brush? We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. On June 6, 1877, Longley was surrounded and arrested without incident by Nacogdoches County Sheriff Milt Mast and two deputies while he was residing in De Soto Parish, Louisiana under the alias "Bill Jackson." He is said to have collected more rewards for bringing in outlaws than anyone else. [1] He received an average education for the time. The first victims were the four Union soldiers who had raided his farm. Justin Anjo A California outlaw, Anjo was lynched for shooting a man to death on July 12, 1877. There is usually a grain of truth to most legends and so it is with Josey Wales. More soldiers, scouts and spies were set afield looking for bushwhackers. It is not always easy to determine the status of material posted to the Internet with regard to fair use and public domain. Thompson and Blackmore over took him one mile north of Van Alstyne where now Highway 5 crosses a branch of Prong Creek. The men had with them six excellent horses but little or no supplies, which seemed a little odd to the locals. In his later years, he also served as a law enforcement officer and a U.S. customs inspector. From 1861 to 1865, war-torn Missouri produced its share of guerrillas and brigands. Genovevo Avila A Mexican native who was a member of Vicente Silvas White Caps Gang. David L. Anderson, aka William Billy Wilson, Buffalo Bill (1862-1918) Most commonly known as Billy Wilson, he was a member of Billy the Kids Gang of rustlers. But, unlike the movie, the real man did not have as his driving force a vengeance for losing his family to murder by Union soldiers. Bill Applegate Applegate led a gang of rustlers in New Mexico during the 1870s. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 US License, Growing Pains of the Republic (1801 1856), Depression, New Deal and Beyond (1932 1945), Beyond Victory and Toward a New Frontier (1946 1962), The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1963 to). Longley's travels for the rest of 1872 are unknown, but by February 1873 he had returned to Texas, where he was accused of murdering another freedman in Bastrop County. There they shot him several times, robbed him, and buried him in a shallow grave. "Mr. William Brocius. B. Wilmeth. He deserted again in May 1872. Ginger marked it as to-read Jan 25, 2022. new topic. A Mexican-American convicted of murdering his business partner on October 21, 1889. Both were hanged at 1:00 p.m. on March 26, 1869 in Sherman, Texas. Eastern District of Virginia (703) 299-3700. One of them was James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill). This happened five miles south of Bonham, Texas. Photo of Billy the Kid playing cards with his gang - just the second known picture of the notorious gunman - is set to fetch $1m at auction after family of fellow outlaw Billy Wilson decided to . Martin Amador A New Mexico outlaw, Amador was hanged for murder in Deming on January 13, 1908. He was a deadly shot and always had on both hips two .44-calibre six shooters. [11] In 1958, Steve McQueen played Longley in Season 2, Episode 23 of Tales of Wells Fargo. This page was last edited on 6 September 2022, at 22:00. Lawrence was wrong and Wilson was hanged twice on December 10, 1875. A posse shot him to death in May 1898 at Thompson, Utah. On April 19, 1909, a vigilante mob of 150-200 men stormed the jail and dragged out Allen, along with Jim Miller, Jesse West, and D.B. Henry Wells Oklahoma outlaw Henry Wells rode with Al Spencer and Jelly Nash. On another occasion, Bill was working with Bushwhacker Tom Brown. Story of the Outlaw Study of the Western Desperado. Sheriff Anderson was well liked by the public, and was buried in Brackettville, Texas, after a very emotional funeral at which many Sanderson citizens were in attendance. The young horse thief then cut loose one of the team horses and rode to the Riverside stage station near Kelvin, Arizona. FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. For about 60 years, Bill Wilsons legend continued to survive in the South. Death by hanging. On June 13, 1876, Longley rode out to his landlord's farm, found him milking a cow, and murdered him with a shotgun. Bill Wilson went to Texas and his wife received a letter stating that he was killed for his wealth. ?-1875) Black outlaw Aaron Wilson killed James Harris with an ax and then shot and killed Harris 12-year-old son. So ends the Great Bushwhacker Bill Wilson. grandfather, a man named Walesthe very name of his outlaw hero! Anthony hid food stuffs taken in a train robbery under his fathers house. When Simp Dixon left North Texas, a Missouri Partisan Ranger, Sam Stone, let him set up an ambush in Stones woodlot to kill Judge Hardin Hart. They have made attempts to locate his burial site in order to relocate anything found to a family cemetery in Missouri. Josey Wales was based on a real man and one that was reputedly as tough, violent and vengeful as Wales. At a Union soldiers reunion, several years after the war, a favorite story was that of three soldiers trying to trap Bill. Even though the author grew up in Phelps County, he never found out that these bushwhackers were associated with Partisan Rangers under Colonel William Clarke Quantrill. Tom slowed down and killed several, but his horse took too many bullets and Tom was killed. Following that, he returned to live with his father's family in Bell County, Texas. Together they did much damage to the Union army in the area. Some versions of Evan's killing claim he was a member of the Texas State Police; the TSP only existed from 1870 to 1873. Sol remained neutral and advised his children to do the same. Sol remained neutral and advised his children to do the same. Then he became a speechwriter for George Wallace. Spillman and B.F. Jermagin. "The True Story Behind Josey Wales" was first published on Facebook on April 1, 2020. Tom Welsh A New Mexico outlaw Welsh killed Joe Hickson in Good Hope, New Mexico on October 28, 1884. Billy the Kid Teenage Outlaw of the Southwest, Byways & Historic Trails Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Declaring Independence, Stanley, Ks Extinct but Still Here (LOK), Black Bob Reservation in Johnson County (LOK). Bodies started turning up everywhere. From February to May 1880, Anderson stole horses from the Mescalero Apache reservation as well as cattle from ranchers on the Colorado River to whom they sold for $10 a head to White Oaks businessman Thomas Cooper. John Watts A cattle rustler who was killed by the militia in New Mexico in March 1883. On another occasion, Bill was working with Bushwhacker Tom Brown. It was found by soldiers. Bill Wilson, founder of US firearms manufacturer Wilson Combat; Law and crime. In the process, he became a wanted outlaw. Convicted of murder, it is incredible that he only received five years in prison. Jim Jamison was pardoned by Governor Crittenden and became a peace officer in Kansas and finally a Texas Ranger. [2] Longley was outraged when he found he was to be put to death, while Hardin had only been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Leonard Alverson A thief and smuggler, Alverson was accused, with two other men, of robbing a post office at Steins Pass, New Mexico, on December 9, 1897. He only found out that Jim Jamison guided Quantrill while the Rangers were in Missouri. [12] Longley is the title character in The Texan, a television series starring Rory Calhoun which aired on CBS from 1958-1960, which portrayed Longley as a noble wanderer.[13]. Dave Poole, one of Quantrill's Raiders. Bill Wilson was immediately regarded as a suspect. The Ozarks were full of men who took to the bush and waged a single man to a small gang warfare on the union soldiers, red legs, jayhawkers and spies for the Union. FelixAguillan Outlaw member of the Castillo Gang. After questioning Anthonys father and four brothers, and not learning anything, all five were shot in front of Anthonys mother. Like the books protagonist, the author of the book had his own notorious personal history. Charles G. Walrath After shooting and killing William Shook, Walrath was hanged. David Lawrence Anderson (1862 - June 4, 1918) was a 19th-century American outlaw, better known under the alias Billy Wilson, who rode with Billy the Kid following the Lincoln County War. Under sina senare r tjnstgjorde han ocks som brottsbekmpare och amerikansk tullinspektr. When the federal military reward was not forthcoming from state officials, however, Finney released Longley, possibly in exchange for a bribe from Longley's uncle, Alexander "Pres" Preston Longley, of California. They reportedly also killed a freed slave woman in Evergreen. Bushwhacker Jim Deem and his father were killed by soldiers. Bill was never without at least two forty-four caliber six shooters. George Washington A New Mexico outlaw, Washington was lynched in June 1882 in Lincoln, New Mexico. It was thought that no one could kill him. Longley is a major character in The Pistoleer, a novel by James Carlos Blake (Berkley Books, NY, 1995). In 1939, Bill and Lois were forced to leave the Burnham's house. ?-1889) William Walker killed Calvin Church in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory in December 1888. Billy Wilson (outlaw) (1862-1918), American outlaw who rode with Billy the Kid; Bill Wilson (convict) (born 1880), convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive; Billy Roy Wilson (William Roy Wilson Jr., born 1939), United States federal judge; William Wilson (Illinois jurist) (1794-1857), Chief Justice of the Illinois . The 12-count indictmentwhich was returned on June 10, 2010 . For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Discuss This Book. Nasario Alarid An New Mexico outlaw, he was finally captured and sentenced to 99 years in prison on September 17, 1906. Willis Arrington A Texas outlaw, Arrington was charged with rustling cattle in 1881. He hid in the trees by the trail leading back to the Union headquarters at Rolla, Missouri, and waited for the soldiers. [7] Furthermore, Longley would have been 14 and 15 years old respectively at the time of the alleged incidents. Bushwhacker Jim Deem and his father were killed by soldiers. This surprise was their shock and his edge. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. He continued to make trips back to Missouri to visit his family and was welcomed by the Ozark mountain people as a folk hero. Bill moved his family into a one room cabin on his mothers farm and started on his quest. Dixon went south tracking Lewis Peacock, Bob Lees nemesis, and was killed near Fort Parker. As these many outlaw tales were taking place on the American Frontier, those puritan folks in the east, longing for adventure and entertainment, greedily absorbed every word of the shocking newspaper headlines and the exaggerated tales in dime novels that were often published before an outlaw even had time to escape, was jailed, or was killed in a shoot-out. There was an outlaw named Billy Wilson aka Dave Anderson that ran with the Kid. They ended up in a running gunfight with soldiers. Much like today, outlaws have never been uncommon in history; however, few criminals get the recognition of those that lived in Americas Old West. In 1972, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales.. Sent to prison, he committed suicide in prison in 1885. Jack Armstrong An outlaw of Las Vegas, New Mexico, who killed a bartender over the price of a drink. Write a review. Hart was not killed, but did lose his left arm to a shotgun blast. He again led away government horses. Byways & Historic Trails Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, William E. Walters, aka: Bill Anderson, Billy Brown, Bronco Billy, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Declaring Independence, Stanley, Ks Extinct but Still Here (LOK), Black Bob Reservation in Johnson County (LOK). Billy Wilson (outlaw) (1862-1918), American outlaw who rode with Billy the Kid; Bill Wilson (convict) (born 1880), convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive; Billy Roy Wilson (William Roy Wilson Jr., born 1939), United States federal judge He sold a wagon load of apples in McKinney, Texas and was paid in greenbacks. (The same book was later re-released by the publisher with a new name, "Gone to Texas," and that is the title that is credited in the movie credits.) William E. Walters, aka: Bill Anderson, Billy Brown, Bronco Billy (1869-1921) Bronco Bill Walters might have started out his life as a cowboy and a railroader, but he soon found a more lucrative future as a train and stagecoach robber. ?-1964) An outlaw and member of the Black Jack Ketchum gang, Atkins robbed trains throughout New Mexico, West Texas, and Arizona. Robbing stages between. From February to May 1880, Anderson stole horses from the Mescalero Apache reservation and cattle from ranchers on the Colorado River, to whom they sold for $10 a head. He broke them out, and the trio escaped, disarming deputy Matt Shelton when he tried to arrest them. Nick Worthington A New Mexico and Colorado outlaw, Worthington stole horses and killed several men before he was shot and killed by civilians in Cimarron, New Mexico in June 1878. Gilbert Webb Arrested for complicity in the robbery of an Army paymaster at Fort Thomas, Arizona on May 11, 1889.