Volume 17 , Issue 38

1895 - Cattle Annie Refuses To Be Reformed

It was in The Wichita Daily Eagle, Tuesday morning, 3 September 1895, page 6, that we found this article: "Refuses To Be Reformed." Concerning Cattle Annie & Little Britches, Indian & Oklahoma Territory outlaw women.

Found on Newspapers.com

Chief Deputy United States Marshal John Hale and Guard Kinnan left Monday for South Farmington, Massachusetts, with Annie McDoulet, a 16 year old outlaw, who was convicted to two years in the reform school there. Her companion, Jennie Medkiff, alias Stevenson, was given a like sentence but would be held here as a witness. Both these girls were arrested in an outlaw camp in the Osage country and were armed with revolvers and Winchesters. They had been in several outlaw raids but always eluded the officers. Annie McDoulet was the daughter of J. C. McDoulet of Skiatook, formerly of Fall River, Kansas. Her father was a preacher-lawyer, but being in poor circumstances when he moved to the territory, Annie was allowed to work in a neighbor's house as a domestic.

There the girls met the Daltons, Cook, Wyatt and other outlaws, and became tough. She fell desperately in love with Outlaw Buck Wightman, and accompanied him on several excursions. Miss McDoulet was very large for her age, but possesses a pretty face, something the Medkiff girl cannot boast of. Annie refused to talk to anyone at the jail except John Dossett,a nd the public was indebted to him for the above particulars. Miss MCDoulet says she was given "good raising," but is now past redemption,a nd intends to resume her outlaw life when she leaves the reformatory. The Medkiff girl sits in the federal jail and sulks, and was afraid to look into a mirror for fear of cracking it.
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