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Quiz Monkey |
See also Wars and Battles: Wild West (battles of).
Eccentric Texan saloon–keeper and Justice of the Peace (1880s): styled himself "the Law West of the Pecos" |
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Roy Bean | |
Born William Henry McCarty Jr., sometime between 1859 and 1861, probably in New York; a.k.a. William H. Bonney, William Antrim, Kid Antrim; probably killed eight men; catapulted into legend in 1881 when Lew Wallace, governor of New Mexico, placed a price on his head. Died 14 July 1881 at Fort Sumner, New Mexico (see Pat Garrett) |
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Billy the Kid | |
One of the first American folk heroes: broke a trail (the Wilderness Road) through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian mountains, into what's now Kentucky (then part of Virginia); founded one of the first settlements west of the Appalachians (which was named after him) |
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Daniel Boone | |
Commonly called Boothill or Boot Hill in the Wild West (including the one at Tombstone) |
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Cemetery | |
Type of vegetation found in California and Baja California, with hard, evergreen leaves: named after the Basque name for the scrub oak (a small or dwarf variety of oak); gives its name to a type of leather trousers without a seat, worn by cowboys over ordinary trousers to provide protection from it (commonly abbreviated); its name also features in the title of a TV Western series (1967–71) |
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Chaparral | |
Pistol, first manufactured in 1873: officially known as the Single Action Army,
a.k.a. The Peacemaker; often referred to as "the gun that won the West" (but see Winchester)
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Colt .45 | |
Sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico – shot Billy the Kid without warning in 1881; appointed Collector of Customs for El Paso, Texas by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901; shot dead in 1908, in a dispute over grazing rights by Jesse Wayne Brazel, who pleaded self defence and was acquitted of murder |
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Pat Garrett | |
Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, from April to December 1871 (relieved of his duties after acccidentally shooting his deputy); shot in the back by Jack McCall while playing poker in the No. 10 Saloon, Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota) on 2 August 1876 |
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James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok | |
Shot in St. Joseph, Missouri on 3 April 1882 by Bob Ford – described in a popular song as "that dirty little coward" |
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Jesse James | |
Used the pseudonym Thomas Howard | |||
Star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show: dubbed "Watanya Cicilla" – "little sure shot" – by fellow performer Sitting Bull; described as America's first female superstar |
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Annie Oakley | |
Pony Express (1860–1) ran from St. Joseph, Missouri to (Californian city) |
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Sacramento | |
The Alamo was in |
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San Antonio | |
Mexican general who besieged the Alamo |
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Santa Anna | |
Custer's regiment at Little Bighorn |
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Seventh Cavalry | |
The Pony Express ran from 3rd April 1860 to November 1861, from |
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St. Joseph, Missouri | |
Commander of the Texian (sic) forces that defended the Alamo against Santa Anna's Mexican force (1836); wrote a famous open letter to the people of Texas, ending "Victory or Death" |
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William B. Travis | |
Formed in 1852 by three directors of American Express, to expand their business to California (from New York) following the Gold Rush of 1848; one of the few Californian banking businesses to survive the Panic of 1855; became involved with the Pony Express in April 1861; effectively took control of the entire mail service in the Western United States in 1866; business moved to the railways following take–over of the Pacific Union Express Company in 1869 |
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Wells Fargo | |
Launched by press agent Major John M. Burke, 1883 |
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Wild West Show | |
Arms manufacturer that coined the epithet "the Gun that Won the West" to refer
to its most successful rifle (see also Colt .45)
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Winchester | |
Surname of the four brothers (Cole, Jim, John & Bob) who formed a notorious gang in the 1870s with the James brothers (Jesse and Frank) |
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