He was born Henry McCarty in 1859 in New York City then moved west with his widowed mother, ending up in New Mexico in 1873. When his mother remarried, he took his stepfather's name of Antrim, then later adopted the alias of William H. Bonney. He was usually known as just Billy of the Kid.

His life of crime began in Silver City, New Mexico when he was 15. He then fled to Arizona after a brush with the law over a petty theft. He shot and killed "Windy" Cahill in a saloon fight on August 17, 1877 and he ran off again, now back to New Mexico.

He soon became embroiled in the Lincoln County War which was a conflict between rival mercantile firms. He signed on with the Tunstall-McSween "Regulators" at the age of 17. In gunfights with Murphy-Dolan forces, he showed himself as a fearless fighter and crack shot.

He and five others participated in the ambush slaying of Sheriff William Brady in Lincoln on April 1, 1878. He went on to rustle cattle from stockmen in the Texas Panhandle between 1879-1880. He was arrested by Sheriff Pat Garrett following a shootout at Stinking Springs in December 1880. Billy was convicted of Sheriff's Brady's murder and was sentenced to hang. On April 28, 1881, he overpowered and killed a guard then killed another deputy before escaping.

Sheriff Pat Garrett tracked Billy, who was now 21 years old, to the old Fort Sumner. Then, on July 14, 1881, Garrett confronted Billy in a darkened bedroom of one of the old military houses. He fired twice and killed Billy instantly.

Billy's reputation grew over the years, sparked by dime novel stories of his exploits. In actuality, he killed four men on his own and participated in the killing of several more. He did some minor cattle rustling. But he never did rob a bank, store or stagecoach. He was generally a well liked young man but it had a deadly temper. His legend as a famous bandit is undeserved.

It was December 21, 1876 and a group of merry makers gathered in the dance hall of Las Animas, Colorado. It was a good time turned ugly when gunfighter Clay Allison turned on, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Faber. Faber was called to the hall to approach Allison about the fact he was walking around stomping on the feet of the dancers. Allison was earlier described in a physician's report discharging him from the Confederate army as "partly maniacal."

Born in Indiana in 1851, Sam Bass later moved to Texas. He was hired as a deputy by a Sheriff W.F. Eagan, but preferred horse racing. In 1876, with two associates, Bass drove some cattle from Texas to Kansas but took off with the money instead of giving it to the cattle owner. Sam Bass and one of the men named Collins went to the town of Deadwood, where they spent almost all the money on liquor and dance hall girls, and hey even tried to set up their own bar and whorehouse, but drank and gambled away any profits they made. Bass then recruited more gang members and robbed a Union Pacific train getting $60,000. One of the gang members wounded in a robbery gave the names of the others, and that set the Pinkertons as well as other lawmen on their trail. An informer (Jim Murphy) infiltrated the gang and when they went to rob the bank in Round Rock, Texas, the gang ran into a trap set for them by Texas Rangers. Bass was shot and wounded badly, and unable to ride, was found by the posse, and taken back to town, where he died a few days later on his 27th birthday.

Judge Roy Bean, who appointed himself "the law west of the Pecos River," doled out some pretty weird and severe sentences from his combination barroom/courtroom. He might have been so crabby because he couldn't move his head, a malady that was borne of his own harsh punishment. When young and in California, Bean killed a Mexican official during an argument over a young woman. Friends of the official didn't take kindly to this, so they hauled Bean off and hung him, leaving him to die. Although seriously injured, he was saved from death by the young woman in dispute. Later, once he was "judge," he once fined a dead man in his "courtroom." After he heard the body of a dead cowboy had $40 and a six-gun in the clothing, he charged the corpse of carrying a concealed weapon and fined it $40.

Born in Bonham, Texas in 1853, he became one of the most famous gunmen in the history of the Wild West. He is reputed to have killed 30 to 40 men including a man that he shot for snoring. His family was prominent with members in the fight for Texas independence, and a Judge William Hardin, served as a congressman in the Texas legislator. John Wesley Hardin was the son of a Methodist minister, who got into trouble early in his life, by stabbing another boy when he was 11 years old. In 1868, at age 15, he killed a former slave, and then ambushed and killed three soldiers that had tried to arrest him.


In 1869. he quarreled and killed a man who threatened him in a card game, later he shot a circus man, and in the same month killed a man trying to rob him. In 1871, he shot two more men in a card game, and an Indian "just for practice". In Abilene, he killed Juan Bideno who had killed one of his friends. Later that year, he walked up to two black policemen who were looking for him and killed one and wounded the other. In Trinity City, Texas, Hardin got into a fight where he was wounded (the other man was killed) and while he was recuperating a couple of policemen crept up and fired into the room he was in, wounded him but were driven off by Hardin's gunfire.


He killed more men in 1873, and in 1874 (on his 21st birthday) where he had a quarrel and then a shoot-out with deputy sheriff Charles Webb, who wounded Hardin before he was killed and that led to a $4000 "Dead or Alive" reward being put on him. Taking the name "J.H. Swain Jr.", he spent three quiet years in Florida as a businessman with his wife and daughter until 1877 when he was returning from Alabama on the train and the Texas Rangers caught up to him.


Hardin recognized the Rangers and tried to draw, but his pistol got caught in his suspenders, his young friend fired and missed, and was shot dead, and Hardin pistol-whipped to unconsciousness. He was taken back to Texas and placed in the penitentiary, where Hardin studied law and was released in 1894. He moved first to Gonzales, then El Paso, Texas and continued to have trouble with John Selman, a peace officer, and threats passed back and forth, leading up to the older Selman walking up behind Hardin while he was shooting dice, and shot him in the back of the head. Hardin never got off a shot, and so ended the life and career of perhaps the most feared gunfighter the old west has ever known.

Robert Leroy Parker was a train robber and outlaw who went by the name of "Butch Cassidy". He was born in 1866 after his parents settled in Mormon country in Utah. As a teenager he fell under the influence of a cowboy rustler named Mike Cassidy who taught him how to shoot, ride and rope and other necessary horse thieving tricks.

After traveling with Cassidy to Telluride, Colorado, "Butch' fell in with the bank robbing duo of Tom McCarty and Matt Warner. He took part in an aborted train robbery in 1887 but robbed banks in Denver and Telluride.

At first, he used the alias of George Cassidy but after working at a butcher shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming, he became known as Butch Cassidy which stayed with him for the rest of his life.

Butch switched from honest labor (mine employee, butcher, cowboy) to outlaw activities, and became part of an outlaw stronghold of brown's Hole, a rugged mountain camp at the Green River, bordering Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. It was there that he met Harry Longabaugh - better known as "The Sundance Kid" - and other members of the camp who eventually formed ' The Wild Bunch" gang.

Butch was sentenced to two years in the Wyoming State Prison in 1892 for cattle rustling. After his release, he went back to Brown's Hole, collected some men and began a five year run of robbing banks and trains. They hid out in places like "Hole-in-the-Wall" and "Robber's Roost", deep canyons of northern Wyoming and southeastern Utah. On at least one occasion, his gang used too much dynamite and blew a train's baggage car to bits.

In September 1901, Butch and two others robbed the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada making off with $32,000. They sought refuge in Forth Worth, Texas and while there, Butch, and Sundance, along with some other gang members posed in fancy suits and derby hats and had their picture taken. Brazenly, Butch sent the picture to the Winnemnucca bank, thanking its owners for the fine duds. Pinkerton Detectives used to photo to close in on the gang .

In late 1901, Butch, Sundance and Sundance's mistress, Etta Place, sailed to South America, where it is believed they operated a ranch in Argentina before resorting to bank and train robbery. They ended up in Bolivia in 1908 and legend has it that the men were killed by Bolivian soldiers in either 1909 or 1911 after robbing a mine payroll.

Other versions maintain that both men returned to the United States and lived out their lives separately: Butch was said to have visited his family in Utah in 1925; another version claims he served as a mercenary in the Mexican revolution and later lived in Spokane, Washington under the name of William T. Phillips where he operated a business and died in 1937. Sundance, according to one version, married Etta and lived for years in Mexico and New Mexico and then died in 1957 at the age of 96. The film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" depicted their deaths in Bolivia.

Robert Leroy Parker was a train robber and outlaw who went by the name of "Butch Cassidy". He was born in 1866 after his parents settled in Mormon country in Utah. As a teenager he fell under the influence of a cowboy rustler named Mike Cassidy who taught him how to shoot, ride and rope and other necessary horse thieving tricks.

After traveling with Cassidy to Telluride, Colorado, "Butch' fell in with the bank robbing duo of Tom McCarty and Matt Warner. He took part in an aborted train robbery in 1887 but robbed banks in Denver and Telluride.

At first, he used the alias of George Cassidy but after working at a butcher shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming, he became known as Butch Cassidy which stayed with him for the rest of his life.

Butch switched from honest labor (mine employee, butcher, cowboy) to outlaw activities, and became part of an outlaw stronghold of brown's Hole, a rugged mountain camp at the Green River, bordering Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. It was there that he met Harry Longabaugh - better known as "The Sundance Kid" - and other members of the camp who eventually formed ' The Wild Bunch" gang.

Butch was sentenced to two years in the Wyoming State Prison in 1892 for cattle rustling. After his release, he went back to Brown's Hole, collected some men and began a five year run of robbing banks and trains. They hid out in places like "Hole-in-the-Wall" and "Robber's Roost", deep canyons of northern Wyoming and southeastern Utah. On at least one occasion, his gang used too much dynamite and blew a train's baggage car to bits.

In September 1901, Butch and two others robbed the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada making off with $32,000. They sought refuge in Forth Worth, Texas and while there, Butch, and Sundance, along with some other gang members posed in fancy suits and derby hats and had their picture taken. Brazenly, Butch sent the picture to the Winnemnucca bank, thanking its owners for the fine duds. Pinkerton Detectives used to photo to close in on the gang .

In late 1901, Butch, Sundance and Sundance's mistress, Etta Place, sailed to South America, where it is believed they operated a ranch in Argentina before resorting to bank and train robbery. They ended up in Bolivia in 1908 and legend has it that the men were killed by Bolivian soldiers in either 1909 or 1911 after robbing a mine payroll.

Other versions maintain that both men returned to the United States and lived out their lives separately: Butch was said to have visited his family in Utah in 1925; another version claims he served as a mercenary in the Mexican revolution and later lived in Spokane, Washington under the name of William T. Phillips where he operated a business and died in 1937. Sundance, according to one version, married Etta and lived for years in Mexico and New Mexico and then died in 1957 at the age of 96. The film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" depicted their deaths in Bolivia.

You had to have a score card in the Old West, as lawmen turned outlaw and outlaws turned lawmen. Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton - leaders of the infamous Dalton Gang - all wore badges before turning to the dark side. Grat was a U.S. marshal, Bob served as chief of police for the Osage Indians and Emmett was a deputy to both brothers at one time.

You had to have a score card in the Old West, as lawmen turned outlaw and outlaws turned lawmen. Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton - leaders of the infamous Dalton Gang - all wore badges before turning to the dark side. Grat was a U.S. marshal, Bob served as chief of police for the Osage Indians and Emmett was a deputy to both brothers at one time.

He was born Wyatt Berry Strapp Earp in Monmouth, Illinois in 1848 and was, perhaps, the west's most celebrated lawman even though only six of his 80 years were spent in that capacity. He stood over six feet tall and was blond and blue-eyed. An impeccable dresser, he was known to never have left his house without coat and tie.

His first law-related job was in Lamar, Missouri in 1870 when he was appointed constable. But he left town in 1871 after his first wife, Urilla Sutherland, died of typhoid fever.

He traveled to Kansas, Texas and New Mexico where he earned his living as a gambler, teamster, buffalo hunter, a section hand on the Union Pacific Railroad and, of course, lawman.

He served as a policeman in Wichita, Kansas in 1875 and then in 1878 he became assistant city marshal in Dodge City, where he met Bat Masterson and John "Doc" Holliday. He also met his second wife there, Cecelia "Mattie" Blaylock.

This is how Bat Masterson described Wyatt: "one of the few men I personally knew in the West in the early days whom I regarded as absolutely destitute of physical fear ... a quiet unassuming man, not given to brag or bluster, but at all times and under all circumstances, a loyal friend and an equally dangerous enemy."

He and his wife traveled to Tombstone, Arizona in December of 1879. It was a mining boomtown back then and he was eventually joined by his brothers Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren. His brother Virgil was appointed town marshal in 1880 while Wyatt worked at the Oriental Saloon on the faro concession and sometimes for Wells Fargo as a stagecoach guard. He also filled in occasionally as Virgil's deputy.

One factor that precipitated the famed hatred between the Earps and the Clantons, (eventually leading to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral) was Wyatt's involvement with a San Francisco actress named Josephine Sarah Marcus, who arrived in Tombstone to perform Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore". Marcus had been the girlfriend of a pro-Clanton sheriff of Cochise County, by the name of John Harris "Johnny Behan. She and Wyatt remained close and when Wyatt's wife died, he and Josie were married.

The shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone occurred on October 26, 1881 between the Earps, the Clantons (Newman or "Old Man Clanton" and his sons Ike, Phin and Billy) and the McLaury brothers (Tom and Frank) who were known cattle rustlers. It resulted in the deaths of the McLaury's and Billy Clanton and the woundings of Virgil and Morgan Earp. Morgan was killed on March 28, 1882 while playing billiards in a Tombstone saloon.

Wyatt and Josie traveled throughout the west on gambling and mining ventures and from 1906 until 1929, they traveled from their Los Angeles home to mining claims in the Mojave Desert and Arizona. While in Los Angeles, Earp became friends with movie actors William S. Hart and Tom Mix (a fellow lawman who had, in fact, been a marshal in Colorado and Oklahoma.

Wyatt Earp died on January 13, 1929. Books prevailed about his life. In 1931 there was a pro-Earp book written by Stuart Lake called "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal. Then came a number of anti-Earp books in which he was portrayed as a paid killer, claim jumper and card sharp, among other distasteful credits.

Born Patrick Floyd Garrett in Alabama in 1850, he is most famous for the killing of "Billy-the-Kid" but he came out west in 1869 and was a Buffalo Hunter, Cowboy, and even a Hog rancher. He married in 1880 and had eight children one of which was blind and would become the associate of the famous Helen Keller. Pat Garrett knew "Billy-the-Kid" in his early days in New Mexico, and "The Kid" was a major player in the Lincoln County War. In 1880 Garrett was elected Sheriff and had to arrest "Billy" and his gang.

A trap was set and most of the gang got away, but later surrendered at Stinking Springs, and Garrett put "Billy" in jail. However, "The KId" killed two guards and escaped and Pat Garrett had to chase him again. He went to a Pete Maxwell's and while waiting in the dark, "Billy-the-Kid" came into the room and Pat Garrett shot him through the heart, and he died immediately. Garrett went into ranching and held some law enforcement jobs.

In February 1908, Pat Garrett was out with a couple of friends, and had dismounted the buggy to relieve himself, and was shot through the back of the head. Wayne Brazel was involved in a feud with Garrett and claimed later that he killed Garrett in self defense.

Played <a href='http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=player&op=view&player_id=343604'>before</a> for the <a href='http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=team&op=view&team_id=29609'>Cologne University</a>. Now a proud member of this team. He is happy to escaped University life.

This is the second Rotter this team ever gained.

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He is the first rotter of the Legends of the West.