Volume 17 , Issue 10

NW Okie's Journey

April Fools Day! But ... this is not a joke. We are a couple of days late. Where did March go? How time flies when you least expect it, huh? Thank you for your patience.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Where has all our southwestern Colorado Rocky snow gone? It's been melting like crazy up here while NW Okie is down in Houston, Texas.

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100 Years Ago, 1 April 1915, Thursday

It was in The Guthrie Daily Leader, dated 1 April 1915, Thursday, with the headlines: "Starr Tells Why He Did Not Beat Back." It is concerning the outlaw bandit chief, which tells of the seamy side of the outlaw game.

From Osage, Oklahoma, April 1, 1915, a report said Herbert Wayland, one of the Starr gang, which robbed the Stroud banks, was shot near Keifer, where three of the gang were surrounded. Two escaped.

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Henry Starr, The Cherokee Badman

It was during Henry Starr's 32 years in crime he robbed more banks than both the James-Younger gang and the Doolin-Dalton gang put together. Starr started robbing banks on horseback in 1893 and ended up robbing his last bank in a car in 1921. The Cherokee Badman netted over $60,000 from more than 21 bank robberies.

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Wild West's Last Badman Dies March 1921

It was in the New York Tribune, Sunday, 20 March 1921, page 76, that we learned of "The Wild West's last Bad man Dies With Boots On. After thirty years of successful Banditry Henry Starr was fatally wounded in a bank hold-up.

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How Belle Starr Died February 3, 1889

As we were browsing through the Library of Congress Newspaper Archives searching for any information concerning Belle Starr, we found the following article in The Daily Ardmoreite, dated 30 August 1910, page two: "How Belle Starr Died." The death of the "outlaw queen" was unromantic for she was a woman.

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1889, February - Belle Starr Dead

The Butler Weekly Times, dated 13 February 1889, page 6, out of Butler Missouri, reported on the death of the infamous Belle Starr, the notorious female desperado. The terror of the Border Dead at Eufala, I. T., tells a sketch of the desperate woman's life and exploits.

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