The western is a genre of literature and movies that has been popular throughout the years. Many of the characters mentioned in this video are in the books and movies of that time. Please select a famous outlaw and include some facts about him or her.
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The person that I thought was very interesting is Annie Oakley. Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee was born on August 13, 1860. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler's heart as well. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody. For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show's star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair. In one day with a .22 rifle she shot 4,472 of 5,000 glass balls tossed in midair. In a train wreck in 1901, Annie suffered a spinal injury that required five operations and even left her partially paralyzed for a while. Annie Oakley died of pernicious anemia on Nov. 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six. A legend in her own time, the remarkable life of Annie Oakley would be celebrated in the 1946 Herbert and Dorothy Fields musical Annie Get Your Gun.
Megan DeJong
4th Period
I chose the outlaw Billy the Kid because I had absolutely no idea who he was, and I felt like doing some research. Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859— July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the names Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War. According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but he most likely participated in the killing of fewer than half that number. McCarty (or Bonney, the name he used at the height of his time) was 5 ft 8 in-5 ft 9 in tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion and prominent front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times,and many recalled that he was as "lithe as a cat". Contemporaries described him as a "neat" dresser who favored an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms, contributed to his paradoxical image, as both a notorious outlaw and beloved folk hero.
Not much is known about McCarty's early life and no one is actually sure who his father was or if McCarty was even his mothers married or maiden name. Most people beleive that his parents were survivors of the Great Irish Famine of the 19th Century. Some genealogists argue, however, that the future outlaw was born William Henry Bonney, the son of William Harrison Bonney and wife Katherine Boujean. When he was 12 his mother married a man from Indianapolis who was 12 years younger than her. Later, McCarty's mother and step father had one child, Joseph. McCarty's mother died in 1874 and Henry and Henry was an orphan and was taken in by a neighbor. The neighbors owned an Inn and Henry worked there to earn his keep. The manager was impressed by the youth, contending that he was the only young man who ever worked for him that did not steal anything. One of McCarty's school teachers later recalled that the young orphan was "no more of a problem than any other boy, always quite willing to help with chores around the schoolhouse".
Forced to seek new lodgings when his foster family began to experience "domestic problems", McCarty moved into a boardinghouse and pursued odd jobs. In April, 1875, McCarty was arrested by Grant County Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, after McCarty stole some cheese. On September 24, 1875, McCarty was again arrested when he was found in possession of clothing and firearms that a fellow boarder had stolen from a Chinese laundry owner. Two days after McCarty was placed in jail, the teenager escaped by worming his way up the jailhouse chimney. From that point on, McCarty was more or less a fugitive.
Shannon Yost
3rd Period
Billy the Kid was born in New York City around 1860. No one can be certain of his real name. His mother was known as either Catherine McCarty or Katherine McCarty Bonney. His father went by the name of William Bonney or Patrick Henry McCarty. In any event, the child’s father died around 1865.
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The person that I thought was very interesting is Annie Oakley. Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee was born on August 13, 1860. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler's heart as well. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody. For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show's star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair. In one day with a .22 rifle she shot 4,472 of 5,000 glass balls tossed in midair. In a train wreck in 1901, Annie suffered a spinal injury that required five operations and even left her partially paralyzed for a while. Annie Oakley died of pernicious anemia on Nov. 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six. A legend in her own time, the remarkable life of Annie Oakley would be celebrated in the 1946 Herbert and Dorothy Fields musical Annie Get Your Gun.
John Wayne was born on May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa. John’s best known for western movie icon or star of true grit. He was in more than 200 films made over 50 years. John Wayne saddled up to become the greatest figure of one of America’s greatest native art forms, the western. Some movies he starred in “Stagecoach” and “Red River.” He won an Oscar as best actor for another western, “True Grit,” in 1969. Wayne received hid nickname Duke. John had a dog by that name and he spent so much time with his pet that the pair became known as “Little Duke” and “Big Duke.” Out of school, Wayne worked as an extra and a prop man in the film industry. John Wayne, real name Marion Michael Morrison, was born on 26 May 1907 in Iowa. His father was Clyde, a pharmacist, and his mother was Mary. As a young boy Wayne sold newspapers.
Grant Holbert
4th Period
billy the kid aka henry mccarty and william h bonney is a 19th century frontier outlaw was born on nov. 23 1859. he participated in the lincoln county war and supposedly killed 21 people. one for each year of his life.
marshall tucker 1st 2nd ^_^
My favorite outlaw is clint eastwood. He was borned may 31st 1930 about 6'2" in hight. He was the son of a steel worker and was a collage dropout from las angeles collage. He was attempting a business realated job. He found his breakthrough in acting staring in the tv series rawhide. But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with ("A Fistful of Dollars"), and ("For a Few Dollars More"). But it was the second sequel to "A Fistful of Dollars" where he found one of his trademark roles: ("The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"). Like most superstars, Clint Eastwood's success can be attributed to equal parts good fortune, tenacity, and talent. Eastwood may have been too young to fight in World War II, but he managed to miss out on action in Korea too. Some interesting facts about him were he Weighed 11 lbs 6 oz at birth,Lived with Sondra Locke from 1976 to 1990 they never were married,His name is used as the title of the hit Gorillaz song and video "Clint Eastwood" (2001)and
Is of a mixed heritage that includes Dutch, Scottish, Irish and English blood.
My favorite one would be the famous Jesse James.
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882), American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri. His father, Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to fight as a Confederate guerilla in the American Civil War as part of Quantrill's Raiders, participating in raids in Kansas. He once killed eight men in a single day. After the war, he returned to his home state and lead one of history's most notorious outlaw gangs. He was wounded while surrendering at the end of the war, and later claimed to have been forced into outlawry because his family had been persecuted in the war.
With his brother Frank James and several other ex-Confederates, including Cole Younger and his brothers, the James gang robbed their way across the Western frontier targeting banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas. Eluding even the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the gang escaped with thousands of dollars. James is believed to have carried out the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime, stealing $60,000 from a bank in Liberty, Missouri.
Then on July 21, 1873 the James-Younger gang pulled off the first successful train robbery in the American West by taking US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express in Adair, Iowa.
Despite their criminal and often violent acts, James and his partners were much adored. Journalists, eager to entertain Easterners with tales of a wild West, exaggerated and romanticized the gang's heists, often casting James as a contemporary Robin Hood. While James did harass railroad executives who unjustly seized private land for the railways, modern biographers note that he did so for personal gain--his humanitarian acts were more fiction than fact.
On September 7, 1876, the James gang attempted to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota. The townspeople returned fire, and all of the members of the gang except for Frank and Jesse James were killed, wounded or captured.
Jesse James had married his own first cousin, named Zerelda after his mother, after a nine-year courtship. They had two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary. She and Frank James' wife tried to get the brothers to take on a more normal life, and with a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse and his wife moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri to hide out, where he lived under the assumed name of Tom Howard and rented a house for $14 a month.
In April 1882, Jesse James recruited Robert and Charles Ford to help him rob the Platte City bank. While James stood on a chair in his home in St. Joseph to straighten and dust a picture, the Ford brothers drew their guns. Robert Ford's shot hit James in the back of the head, ending his outlaw days for good. Ford hoped to claim the $10,000 offered for James's capture but received only a fraction of the reward and was charged with murder. He did, however, secure himself a place in Western outlaw lore which lives on in literature, song, and film.
James' epitaph, selected by his mother, read: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON, MURDERED BY A TRAITOR AND COWARD WHOSE NAME IS NOT WORTHY TO APPEAR HERE.
The Ford brothers were sentenced to hang but were pardoned by the governor of Missouri. Charles Ford committed suicide two years later, and Robert Ford was killed in a bar room brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892.
Rumors have persisted that Ford did not kill James, but someone else. Some stories say he lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma as late as 1948, and a man named J. Frank Dalton, who claimed to be Jesse James, died in Granbury, Texas in 1951 at the age of 103. Some stories claim the real recipient of Ford's bullet was a man named Charles Bigelow, reported to have been living with James' wife at the time.
The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis gave a 99.7% probability that it was Jesse James. A court order was granted in 2000 to exhume and test Dalton's body, but the wrong body was exhumed.
Isaac "Ike" Black (18??-1895) - An outlaw in Kansas and Oklahoma, Black first got into trouble for stealing cattle in Kansas. After doing time in the Kansas Penitentiary, he made his way to Oklahoma. In the early 1890's he hooked up with outlaw fugitive Zip Wyatt, who was wanted for wounding two people in Oklahoma and for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Andrew Balfour in Kansas. the pair soon formed a gang, making numerous robberies in the area, including the robbery of the Hightower Store and post office in Arapaho, Oklahoma in November, 1893. As Black and Wyatt hid out in the Gypsum Hills, they were often aided by their wives, who brought them food and supplies. The gang was quickly blamed for almost every crime committed in the territory, and the two were actively pursued by lawmen.
Ike Black and Zip Wyatt were thought to have joined up with the Doolin-Dalton Gang, participating in the Rock Island train robbery in Dover, Oklahoma on April 3, 1895; however, this has never been confirmed. On June 3, 1895, an outlaw gang robbed the store and post office at Fairview, Oklahoma, taking everything of value and three horses. The outlaws were quickly pursued by U.S. Deputy Marshals, Gus Hadwinger and J. K. Runnels, and Woods County Sheriff Clay McGrath and Deputy Marion Hildreth. Catching up with the robbers the following day, they surprised the gang who were hiding in a cave near the county line. In the ultimate gunfight that broke out, Ike Black was hit in the foot and Zip took a shot in the left arm, but the outlaws were able to escape. The pressure continued from the lawmen, which now numbered almost 200 looking for the pair.
On July 26, 1895 the outlaw pair robbed the Oxley, Oklahoma post office and store, but only gained about $35 and some supplies. However, during this robbery, they were recognized and the next day a posse went after them, tracking them to a site near Salt Creek, about six miles northwest of Oxley. When gunfire erupted once again, Black received a flesh wound to the head, but both men were able to escape once again; however, their horses had run off and they were now afoot.
The following day, they had made their way to a farm about five miles west of Okeene, Oklahoma, where they stole some horses and a cart. Another posse was formed, led by Robert Callison, the constable of Forrest Township, and the men once again went after Black and Wyatt.
Tracking them to a canyon on July 28th, where the guns blazed once again and posse member, Frank Pope was shot in the right leg. However; the “lucky” outlaws once again were able to escape. By this time, the original posse was joined by another from Alva, Oklahoma, led by Deputy Sheriff Marion Hildreth, who pursued the fugitives southeast.
Black and Wyatt took refuge in a shack about four miles east of Cantonment (present-day Canton) and when the posse caught up with them on August 1st, Black was shot in the head and killed. Zip was also shot in the left side of his chest, but escaped the posse, only to be caught a few days later.
U.S. Deputy Sheriffs Marion Hildreth and J. W. Mueir brought Black's body to Alva on a horse-drawn wagon for burial. The only personal effects on his person were a picture of his wife, Belle, $1.50 in silver, and copies of two ballads. Isaac Black was buried in a pauper's grave without ceremony at the Alva Municipal Cemetery at county expense.
amanda luzader
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John Wayne he is the most famous wild west movie star I've known of him since watched movies with my grandpa. John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. His middle name was soon changed from Robert to Michael when his parents decided to name their next son Robert.
His family was Presbyterian. His father, Clyde Leonard Morrison (1884–1937), was of Irish, Scots-Irish and English
descent, and the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison (20 January 1845–05 December 1915). His mother, the former Mary Alberta Brown
(1885–1970), was from Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Wayne's family moved to Palmdale, California, and then to Glendale,
California, in 1911, where his father worked as a pharmacist in a drug store. A local fireman at the firehouse on his route to school in Glendale started calling him "Little Duke", because he never went
anywhere without his huge Airedale Terrier dog, Duke. He preferred "Duke" to "Marion," and the name stuck for the rest of his life.As a teen, Wayne worked in an ice cream shop for a man who shod horses for Hollywood studios. He was also active as a
member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization associated
with the Freemasons. He attended Wilson Middle School in Glendale.
He played football for the 1924 champion Glendale High School team.
Wayne applied to the U.S. Naval Academy, but was not accepted. He
instead attended the University of Southern California (USC), majoring in pre-law. He was a member of the Trojan Knights and joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. Wayne also played on the USC football team under legendary coach Howard Jones. An injury curtailed his athletic career;
Wayne later noted he was too terrified of Jones' reaction to reveal the actual cause of his injury, which was bodysurfing at the “Wedge” at the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. He lost his athletic
scholarship and, without funds, had to leave the university.
Wayne began working at the local film studios. Western star Tom Mix had gotten him a summer job in the prop department in exchange for football tickets. Wayne soon moved on to bit parts, establishing a long friendship with the director who provided most of those parts, John Ford. Early in this period, Wayne appeared with his USC teammates
playing on-screen football in The Dropkick, Brown of Harvard, and Salute, and was one of the featured football players in Columbia Pictures' Maker of Men (filmed in 1930 and released in 1931).
Justin boyes
4TH Period
OLIVIA BOLLING 6/7th
The person that I thought was very interesting is Annie Oakley.born on August 13, 1860.She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio.Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings.Annie was the fifth of seven children.For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show's star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair.
I choose the Wild Bill Hickok. James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. His nickname of Wild Bill has inspired similar nicknames for men named William (even though that was not Hickok's name) who were known for their daring in various fields. Hickok's horse was called Black Nell, and he owned two Colt 1851 Navy Revolvers.
Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach driver, then became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, and professional gambler. Between his law-enforcement duties and gambling, which easily overlapped, Hickok was involved in several notable shootouts, and was ultimately killed while playing poker in a Dakota Territory saloon.
wan ting zhang
1st-2nd
I choose Annie Oakley. Annie was born Aug. 13, 1860 in Patterson Township, Darke County, Ohio. Annie didn't attend school. Born in a log cabin on the Ohio frontier, Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. Whether it be a pistol, rifle, or shotgun, the legendary Annie Oakley was masterful with them all.
Jessica Harris 1/2
The outlaw that I thought was most interesting (Mainly because I like the name) is Crazy Horse. His real name was Ta-sunko-witko and was a Sioux Indian Chief. He helped defend the Indians from the "white men". He helped in the massacre of Captain William J. Fetterman and his troop of 80 men and Wagon Box fight. He didn't want to give in to the white men, and chose to live by the "old ways" until he was finally forced into submission. He even died fighting soldiers who were trying to imprison him
1st and 2nd
Alex Keefover
Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 — July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War. According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but he most likely participated in the killing of fewer than half that number. McCarty was 5 ft 8 in-5 ft 9 in (173-175 cm) tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion and prominent front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times and many recalled that he was as "lithe as a cat". Contemporaries described him as a "neat" dresser who favored an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms, contributed to his paradoxical image, as both a notorious outlaw and beloved folk hero.
John Wayne was a famous Wild West guy. Also John Wayne was a Wild West movie star and he was the best Wild West actor ever. John Wayne was 72 years old when he died. John was born May 26, 1907 Winterset, Iowa. John's parent names were Clyde and Mary Morrison. John’s nickname was Duke. When Wayne's brother was born he was given the name Robert Morrison. John was born with the name Marion Robert Morrison.
I chose Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde Barrow was born March 25, 1909 in Ellis County Texas. Bonnie Parker was born October 1, 1910. Bonnie and Clyde were notorious outlaws, robbers, and criminals during the great depression. Bonnie and Clyde, along with their gang, killed nine police officer along with several other civilians. Bonnie and Clyde travelled the central U.S. robbing banks and small convenience stores along the way. The group made it last run when Clyde escaped from prison. Consequently, word got to authorities and they hatched a plan. They gained information and began to track Bonnie and Clyde. On May 23, 1934 a posse of six officers ambushed the couples’ vehicle empting 130 rounds. Both were killed. Some sources say that Bonnie and Clyde were shot more than 50 times. Clyde Barrow is buried at Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas. Bonnie Parker is buried at Crown Hills Cemetery also in Dallas.
Matt Bartrug
3rd period
Crazy Horse was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life. He is most generally known for his participation in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June, 1876.
On June 17, 1876, Crazy Horse led a combined group of approximately 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in a surprise attack against brevetted Brigadier General George Crook's force of 1,000 cavalry and infantry, and 300 Crow and Shoshone warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud. The battle, although not substantial in terms of human losses, delayed Crook from joining up with the 7th Cavalry under George A. Custer, ensuring Custer’s subsequent defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Nathan Clouser 4th period
Crazy Horse was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life. He is most generally known for his participation in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June, 1876.
On June 17, 1876, Crazy Horse led a combined group of approximately 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in a surprise attack against brevetted Brigadier General George Crook's force of 1,000 cavalry and infantry, and 300 Crow and Shoshone warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud. The battle, although not substantial in terms of human losses, delayed Crook from joining up with the 7th Cavalry under George A. Custer, ensuring Custer’s subsequent defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
nathan clouser 4th period
I chose Henry McCarty, or 'Billy The Kid'.
Henry was born on November 23, 1859 and died one July 14, 1881.
Billy The Kid was 5 ft 8 in-5 ft 9 inches tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion and prominent front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times, and many recalled that he was as "lithe as a cat". Contemporaries described him as a "neat" dresser who favored an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms, contributed to his paradoxical image, as both a notorious outlaw and beloved folk hero.
According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each of his life, but he actually killed less than half that number.
He died at the age of 22 by being shot with a gun.
Of all the worlds' legendary characters, few have attracted world-wide fascination like the outlaw, Jesse James. Some say he’s America’s Robin Hood, while others, on the other hand, see him as a cold-blooded killer. Perhaps he was all of these things. Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. Some people say it was the cruel treatment from Union soldiers that turned Frank and Jesse to a life of crime during the Civil War. Certainly during the war years they learned to kill while riding with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson. After the war, Jesse was wounded while surrendering. Within a year, Frank and Jesse are believed to have pulled off the first daylight bank robbery in peace time. They made off with $60,000 from the Liberty, Mo. bank not far from their home, and one man was killed.
For the next 15 years, the James boys roamed throughout the U.S. robbing trains and banks of their gold, building a legend that was to live more than a century after Jesse's death. Jesse married his own first cousin after a nine-year courtship. She was named for his own mother, Zerelda, and he called her Zee for short. They had two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary. The Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in to help catch the famous desperadoes. Once during a nighttime raid on the family home outside Kearney, Mo., a firebomb was tossed into the log cabin. When it exploded, it tore off the hand of Jesse's mother, and led to the death of his half-brother Archie. Jesse reached his Waterloo in September, 1876, when his gang, including the Younger brothers, took on the bank at Northfield, Minn. Within minutes the town people returned fire. All except Frank and Jesse were either killed or were wounded and captured. Frank James also married, and their wives tried to get them to take on a more normal life. With a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse moved to St. Joseph, Mo., with his family in the fall of 1881 to hide out.
On Christmas Eve, Jesse and Zee moved their family into a small house atop a high hill overlooking St. Joseph. Living under the assumed name of Tom Howard, Jesse rented the house from a city councilman for $14 a month. He attended church, but did not work for a living. During the winter of 1882, Jesse tried to buy a small farm in Nebraska. But in April, he was short of cash. All of his earlier gang members were either dead or in prison, but Jesse recruited Bob and Charlie Ford to help him rob the Platte City bank.
The Ford brothers posed as cousins of Jesse James, but actually were not related to Jesse at all. The $10,000 reward on Jesse proved too appealing. While Jesse stood on a chair in the family home at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph to dust and straighten a picture, Bob and Charlie Ford drew their guns. Bob Ford put an end to the James Legend with a single bullet to the back of the head on April 3, 1882.
The Ford brothers attempted to collect the reward. Instead, they were charged with murder. They were sentenced to hang, but were pardoned by Governor Tom Crittenden. Two years later Charles Ford committed suicide and Bob Ford, the "dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard, and laid poor Jesse in his grave," was himself killed in a bar room brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892.
Jesse James was a moral paradox. He was a good father and family man, and was religious in his own way. Whether he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, or just kept it all, has never been decided. Jesse James died in 1882, but the legend of Jesse James continues more than a century beyond his death. Today Jesse and Frank James are among the best-known Americans in the world.
Aaron Worth
4th period
The person that I am most interested in is Annie Oakley. While still a little girl being reared in her frontier home near Greenville, Ohio, Annie Oakley would take to the field with her gun and bring in enough game so that her mail-carrier father could trade it at the country general store for ammunition, groceries and other necessities.
Annie Oakley was born Annie Moses on Aug. 13, 1860. She learned to shoot at the age of eight with her father’s old 40-inch cap and ball Kentucky rifle. In the fall of 1875, when she was 15, she was invited to take part in a shooting match in Cincinnati against Frank Butler, a champion marksman. Butler thought it was a joke, but he was more than convinced that it was no farce when young Annie beat him fair and square. A year later Miss Moses became, in private life, Mrs. Frank Butler. When Annie joined Frank’s shooting act, she became Annie Oakley.
Jenny Bundy 3rd
Henry McCarty born November 23, 1859. He died July 14, 1881. He was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War. According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but he most likely participated in the killing of fewer than half that number.
McCarty was 5 ft 8 in tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion and prominent front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times, and many recalled that he was as "lithe as a cat". Contemporaries described him as a "neat" dresser who favored an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms, contributed to his paradoxical image, as both a notorious outlaw and beloved folk hero.
Ali Sansalone
4th Period
The person who i was most amused by is Annie Oakly.Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio.
Quaker parents Jacob and Susan were originally from Pennsylvania. After a tavern fire ended their livelihood as innkeepers, they moved to a rented farm in Ohio. Father, who had fought in the War of 1812, died in 1866 from pneumonia and overexposure in freezing weather. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Her mother remarried, had another child and was widowed a second time. During this time Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the county poor farm, where she learned to embroider and sew. She spent some time in near servitude for a local family where she met with mental and physical abuse. When she reunited with her family, her mother had married a third time.
Whether it be a pistol, rifle, or shotgun, the legendary markswoman Annie Oakley was masterful with them all. Dubbed "Little Sure Shot" by Chief Sitting Bull (she was 5 feet tall), her sharp shooting in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show won her many awards and captivated audiences far and wide. Her name remains synonymous with firearms and entertainment.
Born in a log cabin on the Ohio frontier, Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler's heart as well. Some time later they were married and she became his assistant in his traveling shooting act. Frank recognized that Annie was far more talented and relinquished the limelight to her, becoming her assistant and personal manager. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill.
cheyann
hammonds
mrs.constable
4th period
There are many stories about billy the kid but my favorite is little known. The story is that as Billy walked into a saloon and heard a man say that if he found billy, he would kill him. Billy heard this but ignored it. He sat right next to the man and pretended to admire the mans side arm. When Billy asked if he could see it the man gave billy the gun. In those days, they would carry the gun with the hammer on the empty whole in the cylinder so the gun would go off in the holster. Billy spun the cylinder so that the hammer would rest on the bullet. Billy then told the man who he was. The man drew his gun but the gun didn't go off because when he pulled the trigger, the hammer fell on the empty whole. Before the man could try again, Billy drew his gun and shot the man dead.
Zachary Parrucci
A person that I think is interesting is John Wayne. My grandpa has always loved john Wayne, so i knew a lot about him. John wayne was born on may 26, 1907.He was born to Clyde Morisson. He has starred in many movies. He has won an Oscar and many golden globes, golden apple awards. laurel awards, and people's choice awards. John wayne died on June 11, 1979.
Laura Tennant
4th period!
John Wayne was a famous Wild West movie star. He is considered one of the best Western actors of all time. John was in more than 200 films. Some of the movies he stared in were Stagecoach, and Red River.
Matt Wade
6th and 7th
Jesse Woodson James was the son of a Baptist minister.
He never never fought in the Civil War, but he rode with William Quantrill's Guerillas, also known as Quantrill's Raiders. The Quantrill bunch, having more in common with the Confederacy, but not Confederate soldiers, raided Northern towns mostly for profit. Some believed that both Jesse and Frank were present during the bloody raid, 150 men, women and children dead, on Lawrence, Kansas in August 21, 1863. However, there are others who say that Frank participated, while Jesse didn't until the following year.
In 1864, Jesse joined the "Bloody Bill" Anderson gang. This bunch, along with Jesse, raided the town of Centralia, Kansas in September. Jesse's participation was apparently limited to lighting all the buildings on fire. Others, however, raped women and shot men.
On February 13, 1866, the James gang was credited with robbing $62,000 from the Clay County Savings Association of Liberty, Missouri. This was considered to be the first James gang robbery and the first daytime robbery of a bank during peacetime. It was thought by some that Jesse was probably not with them at the time as he was probably recuperating from wounds at the end of the war. There were other folks who noted that there was one man who appeared to be ill and was having trouble staying on his horse. Could have been Jesse? No one was ever convicted of this robbery.
In 1873 Jesse held up his first train, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, near Adair, Iowa. His first bank was held up at Liberty, Missouri. Jesse married Zerelda (Zee) Amanda Mimms on April 24, 1874. Susan Lavenia James was born to Jesse and Zee on November 5, 1879, but died when she was only 9 on March 3, 1889.
On June 17, 1879, Mary Susan James was born. Jesse was shot and killed by Robert Ford at his home in St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1882 at the age of 34.
But the legend doesn't end there. There have been at least two or three individuals about whom some claim lived much longer after faking his death in 1882. It has been suggested that the man buried as Jesse James was actually Charlie Bigelow, who looked very much like him.
One such was J. Frank Dalton, who died in Granbury, Texas in 1951. DNA tests were made of both as near as I can tell. The body buried in Missouri was tested in 1993 and the one in Granbury, Texas in 2000. DNA experts claim that the original body in Missouri was probably Jesse James. But, to this day, others still argue the case.
Another such claim is that James Lafayette Coutney of Blevins, Texas was Jesse. Documentation was supplied in a book along with pictures of both families showing resemblance of the two. Coutney died in 1943 at the age of 96.
And still another option has been the rumors that Henry Ford, a banker from Brownwood, Texas who died in 1910 was actually Jesse James.
Jesse did hang his hat in Texas at various times. His gang is credited with robbing a stagecoach in Austin, Texas, April 1874.
The community of Macey, Texas, 20 miles north of Bryan, was named for William Macy of Indiana, who in 1869 bought land in the Thomas James Mexican land grant. Macy was reportedly the uncle of Frank and Jesse James who were rumored to have stayed there when hiding from Missouri authorities.
Jesse James, Cole, Jim , Bob and John Younger hid out at Belle Starr's home in the Scyene, Texas (near Dallas) vicinity in July 1866
According to legend, Frank and Jesse James hid out on Sterling Creek, Sterling County, Texas, southeast of Midland, in the 1870s to raise horses and hunt buffalo..
Frank James was even an early salesmen for Sanger Brothers in Dallas, as was and Herbert Marcus, the founder of Neiman-Marcus.
One famous outlaw of The Wild West was Billy the Kid. On November 23rd 1859 Henry McCarty A.K.A Billy the Kid was born. At the age of fourteen McCarty found himself practically on his own, because his mother had no time to watch him. He had lost his birth name and for some reason he began to be known as Billy. He began his outlaw days as a laundry thief and in a matter of years became a cowboy rustler. In Fort Grant, on August 17th 1877 Billy confronted a blacksmith named F.P Cahill in a salon. He and The Kid had had many arguments before and during this argument Billy the Kid whipped out a pistol and shot the man in the stomach, and he died the next day. Billy the Kid was only the age of 17 when he committed his first murder. When one of his friends was murdered, The Kid and the man’s gang “The Regulators” hunted down and killed Frank Baker and William Morton, the two main suspects of his murder. A few years later in 1880, The Kid and his gang rode into Fort Sumter and were ambushed by an ex-buffalo hunter Pat Garret. Two of the kid’s friends were killed on the spot but Billy escaped with 4 other men in his group. Two days later on December 25th one of the men were killed by Garret. Then, Billy the kid was sent to London to await hanging. On April 18th 1881, Billy the Kid was awaiting his hanging in a building in Fort Sumter. He escaped and killed two men in the process with his shot gun. A 500 dollar bounty was placed on his head and Garret began the search immediately. Garret, with the help of a few others, hunted down Billy to an old building in Fort Sumter. Billy the kid heard someone walking into where he was hiding and when he asked “Who’s there?” Garret shot, the defenseless Billy in his heart in the dark room.
Sam Haines
4th Period
I like cowboy movies and characters. There is a real person on the movie "Tombstone" - named John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
He was a very smart man, but very fast with his weapons. He could usually outsmart most of the men around him.
On July 19, 1879, Holliday and noted gunman John Joshua Webb were seated in a saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when a former U.S. Army scout named Mike Gordon began yelling loudly at one of the saloon girls. When Gordon stormed from the saloon, Holliday followed him. Gordon produced his pistol and fired one shot, missing. Holliday immediately drew his gun and killed Gordon. Holliday was placed on trial for the shooting but was acquitted, mostly based on the testimony of Webb.
It was said, that he saved Wyatt Earp's life. Wide ranging historical accounts have usually supported the belief Holliday was extremely fast with a pistol, but his accuracy was less than perfect. In three of his four known pistol fights, he shot one opponent (Billy Allen) in the arm, one (Charles White) across the scalp, and missed one man (a saloon keeper named Charles Austin) entirely. In an early incident in Tombstone in 1880, shortly after he arrived in town, a drunken Holliday managed to shoot Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce in the hand, and his bartender Parker in the toe (neither was the man Holliday originally quarreled with). For this, Holliday was fined for assault and battery.
Wes Ashcraft
The person I am the most interested in is John Wayne. John was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, in 1907. John Wayne's movie career lasted for five decades. He appeared in more than 175 films, most of them directed by John Ford. For over a generation he was Hollywood's biggest star. He starred in just about any movie Hollywood wanted him to be in. But it was the Western the American cinema were Wayne made his biggest impression in his life. He had won an Oscar for best actor in 1969 for True Grit. He performance in The Searchers has been singled out by filmmakers and actors as one of the best performances by an actor on film, ever. In 1964, Wayne was diagnosed with lung cancer. Fifteen years later he was diagnosed again with cancer of the stomach. He finally reached an age of 72 before he died. But he will never be forgotten. People will always remember him as the best actor of all time.
Logan Demyon
4th period
The person that I am most interested in is Annie Oakley. While still a little girl being reared in her frontier home near Greenville, Ohio, Annie Oakley would take to the field with her gun and bring in enough game so that her mail-carrier father could trade it at the country general store for ammunition, groceries and other necessities.
Desarae Board 1&2 period
Thrayne Archibald, was a very interesting outlaw to me. Thayne Archibald was executed at the Nevada State Prison on August 23, 1961. He was convicted for the crime of murder. Archibald was a native of Utah and at the time of his death was 22 years old. He had kidnapped a child, and robbed a store, and he shot the kid in the back twice, and he admitted to all this before his execution. I found him interestiong because before he was exicutted he said that he wanted to write a book about his actions if he ever got out of jail, called "A Teen-Age Desire."
Kiley Moore
3rd period.
Myra Maybelle Shirley was born on February 5, 1848, but was known as "Belle" by her parents. She probably attended Carthage Female Academy and a private school, Cravens, in Carthage. Her father became a prosperous innkeeper and slaveholder.
According to legend, she was the "Bandit Queen". There are no records that she was ever involved in murder, the robbery of trains, banks, stagecoaches or cattle rustling. However, she was a convicted horse thief. One of her most memorable arrests was in in 1886 when she robbed a post office dressed as a man.
Brianna Woodburn
3rd Period
The famous outlaw i choose is Billy the kid. Billy was born on November 23 1859. He was a very important person. Billy the kid was as known as William H Booney. I think billy the kid is just a important as all the outlaws.
Briana Sanford
3rd period
I chose Annie Oakley. She seems very interesting to me. I knew a little bit about her before, but I decided to research and find out more. She was born Pheobe Anne Oakley Mozee. Depending on the resource, there are different ways to spell her last name. She went by Annie Oakley as a stage name. She was born August 13, 1860 in Patterson Township, Ohio. Anne did not attend school.
Her parents were Wuakers that originally lived in Pennsylvania. Annie was the fifth child out of seven. Her father died in 1866, shortly after her mother remarried and had another child. She was put into the care of the superintedent of the county poor farm. She learned to sew and embroider. Then, she was placed with a local family. During ths time, she was faced with physical and mental abuse.
Annie Oakley was nicknamed "Little Sure Shot" after Chief Sitting Bull realized her great potential as a shooter. He named her this because she was only five feet tall, but she could master any type of gun you placed in her hand. She began shooting at age nine. She entered a shoting contest with Frank E. Butler at age 16. She won the contest and ended up marrying Frank E. Butler.
She became a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885. She was the star of the show for 17 years. In 1901, she was in a train wreck. She sustained injuries but continued shooting. Sadly, she died Nov. 3, 1966 in Greenville, Ohio of pernicious anemia.
Gabby Tenney 3rd
"This is as good a day to die as any." Cherokee Bill said on March 17, 1896, as he stepped into the courtyard at Fort Smith and saw the gallows.Crawford Goldsby (a.k.a. Cherokee Bill) was born at Fort Concho, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1876.Bill was homeless at the age of seven when his parents separated. An old black woman, named Amanda Foster, took him in andAt age twelve, Goldsby shot and killed his first man. It was his brother-inlaw, who told him to feeds some hogs. raised him at Fort Gibson, I. T. At the age of eighteen, a wanted man on the run, Goldsby fell in with some of the worst outlaws in the Indian Nations, William and James Cook.
The person I liked most was Jesse Woodson James. Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847 and lived until April 3, 1882. He was American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri. Already a grand celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or economic justice.
Although James has often been mythically portrayed, even prior to his death, as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, this is incorrect. His robberies enriched only him and his gang.James has been the subject of many songs, books, articles and movies throughout the years. Jesse James is often used as a fictional character in many Western novels, including some that were published while he was alive. For instance, in Willa Cather's My Antonia, the narrator reads a book entitled 'Life of Jesse James' - probably a dime novel.
In Charles Portis's 1968 novel, True Grit, the U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, describes fighting with Cole Younger and Frank James for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Long after his adventure with Mattie Ross, Rooster Cogburn ends his days in a traveling road show with the aged Cole Younger and Frank James.The murder of Jesse James was a national sensation. The Fords made no attempt to hide their role. Indeed, Robert Ford wired the governor to claim his reward. Crowds pressed into the little house in St. Joseph to see the dead bandit, even while the Ford brothers surrendered to the authorities— but they were dismayed to find that they were charged with first degree murder.
Billy the Kid was born November 3,1859 and died July 14,1881. According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but he most likely participated in the killing of fewer than half that number. Although I do not know much about him, I could infer that he was a very bloody killer.
Andrew Strand 4th period
Annie Oakley- August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926. She was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 - 6 November 1908?), sometimes spelled Longbaugh, born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, also known as The Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. In 1887, Harry Longabaugh was convicted of horse theft and sentenced to 18 months in the Sundance, Wyoming, jail. Because of this jail time he was called the Sundance Kid. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) sometime after Parker was released from prison around 1896. They formed the "Wild Bunch Gang." Together with the other members of the gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American and Old West history. Little is known of Longabaugh's exploits prior to his riding with Parker. However, this is known: in 1891 Harry Longabaugh was a 25 year old ranch hand working at the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada. The Bar U was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time.
Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and often referred to as a "gunfighter", he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, where he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed "Kid", Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous men while with the gang. It is possible that often the "Sundance Kid" was mistaken for "Kid Curry", since many articles referred to "the Kid". Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout. With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown.
Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at what is now Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as a hide-out before they robbed a bank in Red Lodge, Montana. Parker, Longabaugh and other desperados met at another cabin brought to Old Trail Town from the Hole-in-the-Wall country in north central Wyoming. That cabin was built in 1883 by Alexander Ghent.
Historically, the gang was for a time best known for their lack of violence during the course of their robberies, relying heavily on intimidation and negotiation, but nevertheless if captured they would have faced hanging. However, that portrayal of the gang is less than accurate and mostly a result of Hollywood portrayals depicting them as usually "non-violent". In reality, several people were killed by members of the gang, including five law enforcement officers killed by Logan alone. "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout the country, with as much as a $30,000 reward for information leading to their capture or death.
They began hiding out at the Hole In The Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming. From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of the surrounding territory. Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo, however, hounded the gang for a couple of years.
Parker and Longabaugh, evidently wanting to allow things to calm down a bit and looking for fresher robbing grounds, left the United States on February 20, 1901. Longabaugh sailed with his "wife" Etta Place and Parker aboard the British ship Herminius for Buenos Aires in Argentina
Jared Burns
4th Period
I thought that Wild Bill Hickok looked very interesting. William Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois. His parents were William Hickok and Polly Butler. George Bush, the 41st President of the US is a descendent of Hickok's mother. Hickok drove a stagecoach on the Santé Fe Trail. He was also a civil war scout and worked for General Custer during the Indian Wars. He got his name Wild Bill Hickok because he stopped a lynching and a woman who was watching said "...ain't he wild."
Wild Bill Hickok took over as Marshall of Abilene. He was in a shoot out with a man named Phil Coe. He killed Coe and heard a noise and shot and killed his deputy Mike Williams by mistake. Hickok was going blind from glaucoma.
On August 2, 1876, Wild Bill Hickok was playing poker and was shot in the back of the neck by Jack McCall. Hickok died instantly. Wild Bill's cards that he was holding when he was shot were 2 Black Aces, 2 Black Eights and are known as the Dead Man's Hand.
Nick Sinclair
3rd period
Billy the Kid was born in New York City around 1860. No one can be certain of his real name. His mother was known as either Catherine McCarty or Katherine McCarty Bonney. His father went by the name of William Bonney or Patrick Henry McCarty. In any event, the child’s father died around 1865.
Brandon Plivelich pd.6-7
I think Anne okley was interesting. She was born on
augest 13 1860.she was Anne from her sisters and
I pick John Wayne! John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. John Wayne real name Marion Michael Morrison was born on 26 May 1907 in Iowa. His father was Clyde, a pharmacist, and his mother was Mary. As a young boy Wayne sold newspapers.
His middle name was soon changed from Robert to Michael when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. Hes a great actor in western movies. He was in more than 200 films made over 50 years. He won an Oscar as best actor for another western True Grit in 1969.
Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw in the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a grand celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or economic justice. Although James has often been mythically portrayed, even prior to his death, as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, this is incorrect. His robberies enriched only him and his gang.
I chose the out-law Jesse James. I chose him because I have herd of him before. Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847 and died on April 3, 1882 was an American outlaw in the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a grand celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or economic justice.
Although James has often been mythically portrayed, even prior to his death, as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, this is incorrect. His robberies enriched only him and his gang.
Jesse Woodson James was born in Clay County, Missouri, at the site of present day Kearney, on September 5, 1847. His father, Robert S. James, was a commercial hemp farmer and Baptist minister in Kentucky who migrated to Missouri after marriage and helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. He was prosperous, acquiring six slaves and more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) of farmland. Robert James travelled to California during the Gold Rush to minister to those searching for gold
and died there when Jesse was three years old.
The person that I thought was very interesting is Annie Oakley. Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee was born on August 13, 1860. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler's heart as well. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody. For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show's star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair. In one day with a .22 rifle she shot 4,472 of 5,000 glass balls tossed in midair. In a train wreck in 1901, Annie suffered a spinal injury that required five operations and even left her partially paralyzed for a while. Annie Oakley died of pernicious anemia on Nov. 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six. A legend in her own time, the remarkable life of Annie Oakley would be celebrated in the 1946 Herbert and Dorothy Fields musical Annie Get Your Gun.
-Imani Washington
6th-7th
John Wayne was born on May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa. John’s best known for western movie icon or star of true grit. He was in more than 200 films made over 50 years. John Wayne saddled up to become the greatest figure of one of America’s greatest native art forms, the western. Some movies he starred in “Stagecoach” and “Red River.” He won an Oscar as best actor for another western, “True Grit,” in 1969. Wayne received hid nickname Duke. John had a dog by that name and he spent so much time with his pet that the pair became known as “Little Duke” and “Big Duke.” Out of school, Wayne worked as an extra and a prop man in the film industry. John Wayne, real name Marion Michael Morrison, was born on 26 May 1907 in Iowa. His father was Clyde, a pharmacist, and his mother was Mary. As a young boy Wayne sold newspapers.
Billy the Kid was born in New York City around 1860. No one can be certain of his real name. He participated in the Lincoln county war and supposedly killed 21 people. one for each year of his life.
Alec wadsworth
6 & 7
The person that I thought was very interesting was Belle Starr. Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr, better known as Belle Starr February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889, was a famous American female outlaw.
She was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri. Her mother was a Hatfield from the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feuding clans. In the 1860s her father sold the farm and moved the family to Carthage where he bought an inn and liver stable on the town square. May Shirley received a classical education and learned piano, while graduating from Missouri's Carthage Female Academy, a genteel institution her father had helped to found. After a Union attack on Carthage in 1864, the Shirleys moved to Scyene, Texas. According to legend, it was at Scyene that the Shirleys became associated with a number of Missouri-born criminals, including Jesse James and the Youngers. In fact, she knew the Younger brothers and the James boys because she had grown up with them in Missouri, and her brother John Alexander Shirley (known as Bud) served with them in Quantrill's Raiders, alongside another Missouri boy, James C. Reed.
Belle was briefly married for three weeks to Bruce Younger in 1878, but this is not substantiated by any evidence. In 1880 she did marry a Cherokee Indian named Sam Starr and settled with the Starr family in the Indian Territory. In 1883, Belle and Sam were charged with horse theft and tried before "The Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker's Federal District Court in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was found guilty and served nine months at the Detroit House of Correctiors in Detroit, Michigan.
For the last two-plus years of her life, she took on a series of lovers with colorful names, including Jack Spaniard, Jim French and Blue Duck, after which, in order to keep her residence on Indian land, she married a relative of Sam Starr, Jim July Starr, who was some 15 years her junior. On February 3, 1889, two days before her 41st brithday, the outlaw queen met her own tragic end. She was riding home from a neighbor's house when she was ambushed while eating a piece of cornbread. After she fell off her horse, she was shot again to make sure she was dead. Her death resulted from shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face. There were no witnesses and no one was ever convicted of the deadly crime. Suspects with apparent motive included her new husband and both of her children, as well as Edgar J. Watson, one of her sharecroppers, because he was afraid she was going to turn him into the authorities as an escaped murderer from Florida with a price on his head .
My favorite outlaw was Crazy Horse, his name is spontaneous and makes you wonder what is so crazy about him. In research it says sources differ on the precise birth of Crazy Horse but most say about around 1845. His real name was Thašuŋka Witko. I have no idea how to say that. He was a Sioux Indian chief and he defended the Indians. He wanted to live his own way and not the old. He was stabbed by one of the members of the guard after being turned over.Dr. McGillycuddy, who treated Crazy Horse after he was stabbed, wrote that Crazy Horse "died about midnight." According to military records he died before midnight, making it September 5, 1877.
I chose Tony Accardo.
Accardo has more brains before breakfast than Al Capone ever had all day." Possessing a nimble mind and a canny instinct for survival, Accardo boasted of having never spent a night in jail. though he was picked up in Miami Beach in 1929 on vagrancy charges while playing golf with Al Capone and Jack McGurn. But he was released on his own recognizance. Accardo's closest brush with the slammer came on Feb. 24, 1945, when he was forced to suffer the indignity of appearing in a police lineup at the Chicago Detective Bureau during a murder investigation. But that too, was only a mere formality.
Even during his last years when he was consumed with cancer and his body a thin. frail shell, this elder statesman of the rackets was accorded a respect that was never shown other mob cures of his generation who reaped a r more bitter harvest. In death, Tony Accardo still looms as the most powerful mob figure of this era; the boss of bosses who helped shape policy on a national level.
Anthony "Big Tuna" Accardo, a product of the Prohibition era, ruled the rackets in this town for nearly forty years before succumbing to the ravages of old age and cancer on May 17, 1992. He was an early product of the "Circus Gang," a collection of Northwest Side toughs who congregated at John "Screwy" Moore's (a.k.a. Claude Maddox) Circus Cafe on North Avenue. Moore was nominally connected to the Torrio-Capone outfit, and he willingly obliged Scarface with a percentage of his gang's liquor revenue, and the necessary armaments through their gun dealer Peter Von Frantzius.
Accardo, a strapping, flve-nine, 200 pound lad who was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, joined the Circus Gang while he was still in his teens. He was introduced to the mob boys by "Tough" Tony Capezio, a gambling boss and syndicate man, who pulled him off the streets of the Grand and Milwaukee neighborhood, and gave him something more "useful" to do. By the end of the 1920s, Accardo was performing various tasks for the Capone mob while running with another gangster of future importance, his closest friend and confidant, Felice De Lucia, better known as Paul "the Waiter" Ricca.
Nick Bellay
1 & 2nd Period
-BUTCH CASSIDY-
The same trio, together with an unknown fourth man, was responsible for the robbery on June 24, 1889, of the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in which they stole approximately $21,000, after which they fled to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout in southeastern Utah.
In 1890, Parker purchased a ranch near Dubois, Wyoming. This location is close to the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall, a natural geological formation which afforded outlaws much welcomed protection and cover, and so the suspicion has always existed that Parker's ranching, at which he was never economically successful, was in fact a façade which operated to conceal more clandestine activities, perhaps in conjunction with Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws.
In early 1894, Parker became involved romantically with female Old West outlaw and rancher Ann Bassett. Bassett's father, rancher Herb Bassett, did business with Parker, supplying him with fresh horses and beef. That same year, Parker was arrested at Lander, Wyoming, for stealing horses and possibly for running a protection racket among the local ranchers there. Imprisoned in the state prison in Laramie, Wyoming, he served 18 months of a two-year sentence and was released in January 1896, having promised Governor William Alford Richards that he would not again offend in that state in return for a partial remission of his sentence. Upon his release, he became involved briefly with Ann Bassett's older sister, Josie, then returned to his involvement with Ann.
Upon his release he associated himself with a circle of criminals, most notably his closest friend Elzy Lay, Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, Ben Kilpatrick, Harry Tracy, Will "News" Carver, Laura Bullion, and George Curry, who, together with others, formed a gang known as the Wild Bunch, and with this his criminal activity increased considerably. Despite the Wild Bunch often being portrayed as mostly non-violent, in reality the gang was responsible for numerous killings during their robbery activities.
On August 13, 1896 Parker, Lay, Kid Curry and an unknown fourth man robbed the bank at Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with approximately $7,000. Shortly thereafter he recruited Harry Longabaugh, alias "The Sundance Kid", a native of Pennsylvania, into the Wild Bunch.
In early 1897, Parker was joined at "Robbers Roost" by his off and on girlfriend Ann Bassett, Elzy Lay, and Lay's girlfriend Maude Davis. The four hid out there until early April, when Lay and Parker sent the women home so that they could plan their next robbery. On April 21, 1897, in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, Parker and Lay ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company from the railroad station to their office, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold, with which they again fled to the Robber's Roost.
billy the kid was bad. he killed allot of people and robbed banks. he has made his name well known and has been a legend for years.
John Wayne was born on May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa. John’s best known for western movie icon or star of true grit. He was in more than 200 films made over 50 years. John Wayne saddled up to become the greatest figure of one of America’s greatest native art forms, the western. Some movies he starred in “Stagecoach” and “Red River.” He won an Oscar as best actor for another western, “True Grit,” in 1969. Wayne received hid nickname Duke. John had a dog by that name and he spent so much time with his pet that the pair became known as “Little Duke” and “Big Duke.” Out of school, Wayne worked as an extra and a prop man in the film industry. John Wayne, real name Marion Michael Morrison, was born on 26 May 1907 in Iowa. His father was Clyde, a pharmacist, and his mother was Mary.
Courtney Jones
1,2 Period
The outlaw that I thought was most interesting is Crazy Horse. His real name was Ta-sunko-witko and was a Sioux Indian Chief. He helped defend the Indians from the "white men". He helped in the massacre of Captain William J. Fetterman and his troop of 80 men and Wagon Box fight. He didn't want to give in to the white men, and chose to live by the "old ways" until he was finally forced into submission. He even died fighting soldiers who were trying to imprison him.
Kayla Wyatt
6-7th period
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882), American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri. His father, Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to fight as a Confederate guerilla in the American Civil War as part of Quantrill's Raiders, participating in raids in Kansas. He once killed eight men in a single day. After the war, he returned to his home state and lead one of history's most notorious outlaw gangs. He was wounded while surrendering at the end of the war, and later claimed to have been forced into outlawry because his family had been persecuted in the war.
James' epitaph, selected by his mother, read: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON, MURDERED BY A TRAITOR AND COWARD WHOSE NAME IS NOT WORTHY TO APPEAR HERE.
The Ford brothers were sentenced to hang but were pardoned by the governor of Missouri. Charles Ford committed suicide two years later, and Robert Ford was killed in a bar room brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892.
Rumors have persisted that Ford did not kill James, but someone else. Some stories say he lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma as late as 1948, and a man named J. Frank Dalton, who claimed to be Jesse James, died in Granbury, Texas in 1951 at the age of 103. Some stories claim the real recipient of Ford's bullet was a man named Charles Bigelow, reported to have been living with James' wife at the time.
Brittany Morgan
The only ones i have heard about was Jesse James and John Wayne. I think i saw a movie about the assination of jesse james so i guess that jesse james was a thieve and rob and killed people. Also who has not heard of john wayne. I know that john wayne did western movies and that he was one of the best western film actors that ever lived.
The person that I thought was very interesting is Annie Oakley. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio.
I did some reasearch on out law billy the kid.Billy the kid was from the Old West has stirred up more controversy and eluded historians and biographers than Billy the Kid alias William H. Bonney. This young man in his short life has established his place in history and legend, but there is more to the myth there's the man, which in my opinion is far more interesting. On this website you'll find plenty of information and learn who Billy the Kid really was and how he became a legend in his own time.
cori cianfrocca
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I picked Wild Bill hickok because i knew nothing about him,and i just decided that i would look him up.
James Butler Hickok was born May 27,1837 and died on August 2, 1876,he was better known as Wild Bill Hickok. He was born in Homer, Illinois He came to the West as a stagecoach driver, then became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska.When the Civil War began, he joined the Union forces and served in the west, mostly in Kansas and Missouri. Between his law-enforcement duties and gambling,he was ultimately killed while playing poker in a Dakota Territory saloon.
Destini Arbogast♥
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Billy the Kid was born November 3,1859 and died July 14,1881. According to legend, he killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but he most likely participated in the killing of fewer than half that number. Although I do not know much about him, I could infer that he was a very bloody killer.
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