Who was your favorite outlaw in the late 1800s

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Well the ones that stayed alive the longest were the best i guess.
Still with all the Antique firearm collectors on here there must be some intrest in outlaws.
Did Canada have any outlaws besides Mad trapers going on killing Sprees.
My vote goes to Jesse (Dingus) James.

I bet most people didnt know Jesse James was Nicknamed Dingus :D
Quantrill Raiders Lieutenant Bloody Bill anderson suposedly gave Jesse the nick name Dingus. Theres a bunch of ideas on how this happened from Jesse makeing up his own swear words to him blowing off the tip of his finger cleaning a Revolver by the camp fire. LOL


There must be a pile of outlaws to list my favorite two to read about Ect were.

Ned Kelly
Jesse James
 
Wes Hardin.
It seems like he didn't go looking for trouble, to me it sounds like he was kind of like John Wayne-rough and tough, and wouldn't take sh#t from anyone.:D:cool:

Edit-IMO Jesse James was a muderous little b@stard that DID look for trouble.
 
Hardin you dont hear about much.
Didnt he use a S&W DA Frist model like this one Below..
or was it a S&W NM # 3
I think they were all murders. James and Billy the kid seemed to enjoy it more i guess from what i have read.

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I grew up in the country where Bill Miner rode to hide out after the botched train robbery at Ducks, BC.
I've shot the Winchester High Wall rifle, that rumour has it, was used to take a shot at the outlaws as they passed through what was then known as Grand Prairie, BC.
 
Hardin was probably some sort of physcopath....He killed 40 or so men, not counting during the Civil War. Very short temper...

Apparently lots of outlaws and lawmen were short fused and just plain mean.
 
Gatehouse said:
Apparently lots of outlaws and lawmen were short fused and just plain mean.
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That's why the (now antique) guns of the period had those big bores and big mean bullets in them... to put those big & mean men where they belong should they do something inappropriate... and anyone could own a big mean gun those days, lol (as opposed to today, where only criminals can run amok with guns and the honest folks somehow get bashed by governments for mere legal ownership). :rolleyes:

I vote for Wyatt Earp. He might've been a lawman, but several accounts say that the badge was just a front for a personal agenda. In either case, he and his brothers kicked some butt around town!

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(Look! He even looks like Dr. J.O. Lambert from Lambert's Cough Syrup! Now if that's not a reason to like him even more, I don't know what is...)

:p
 
Gatehouse said:
Hardin was probably some sort of physcopath....He killed 40 or so men, not counting during the Civil War. Very short temper...

Apparently lots of outlaws and lawmen were short fused and just plain mean.
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:agree: These guys were products of their environment, which was not exactly luxurious.
Is it just me or does Wyatt look a lot like Kurt Russel? Good call casting him in Tombstone.


Dingus-not sure about what gun Hardin used. Have to look around a bit and see.
 
Sam Kelly. Not worldwide famous, but he was an outlaw who used to hide out in The Big Muddy area of southern Sask where I'm from.

He had a couple caves dug in the side of a hill, (one for the men and one for the horses) just a couple miles north of the Montana border. It was well known that he rode with The Wild Bunch for a time and with his own crew.

They still give tours of the area, although the caves they show the tourists arent the real ones! The real ones are actually 4 miles north of the tourist site.
 
Bloody Bill

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One of the most brutal and murderous of em all was Bloody bill, he was a irregular guerilla fighting for the Confederacy.

His father and later his sisters were murdered in cold blood by northern sympathisers and troops...I think it drove him insane and led him on his quest for bloody revenge.

Some even say accounts of his death were wrong as a man who died in the 1920's may have been him and had old photos beside his bed of Andersons sisters....

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/quantrill/anderson.htm
 
"Doc"Holiday , and of course the James Bros.

Seems like for the time most of them started out with good ideas,to take back from the rich thieving business men hiding behind politics to give back to the poor farmers. But as greed would have it, the good intention turned sour. Same goes for some of the Lawmen of the time, good intentions that also became personal vendettas. Not sure how much has really changed in the Politics and Lawmen side of things........
 
Musketfire said:
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One of the most brutal and murderous of em all was Bloody bill, he was a irregular guerilla fighting for the Confederacy.

His father and later his sisters were murdered in cold blood by northern sympathisers and troops...I think it drove him insane and led him on his quest for bloody revenge.

Some even say accounts of his death were wrong as a man who died in the 1920's may have been him and had old photos beside his bed of Andersons sisters....

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/quantrill/anderson.htm
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sounds like the guy who inspired joesy wales
 
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