All posts tagged "posse"
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9.9K2Crime and ScandalElmer McCurdy, Maine Plumber, Dumbest Outlaw, Traveling Corpse
On Oct. 11, 1911 an Oklahoma sheriff’s posse had Elmer McCurdy on the run. The Maine man – a plumber-turned-outlaw – had...
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11.9K4ConnecticutConnecticut’s Mysterious Dave Mather: The Law of the Old West
Mysterious Dave Mather came to be a lawman in the old West pretty much by chance. The taciturn son of a Connecticut...
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11.7K3ConnecticutThe Mark Twain Burglary Goes Comically Awry
The Mark Twain burglary of 1908 is remembered for the witty notice the author tacked onto his dining room door for the...
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