Spencer Nottingham 11/25/99
Language Arts Per 8
Sam Bass
Two Column notes
Location
Guardians
Biographical Information • Sam Bass was born in the town of Mitchell Indiana on July 21, 1851.
• Later Bass Moved to the state of Texas where he took up the business of train robbing
• Sam's parents died when he was a youth, his mom Jane, in 1861, Dad Daniel, in 1864.
• Sam and his Twelve siblings moved in with relatives. Poor Sam was sent to his uncle David L Seeks whom deprived Sam of a proper education and made him work on the farm when he was old enough.
• While working as a teamster at the age of eighteen he drove a herd of cattle to Denton Texas and stayed working for the local Sheriff, WF "dad" Eagan.
• When Sam saved up enough money he bought a prize winning horse that won him enough money to quit working for Eagan.
• With the money he had Sam started mixing with the "rowdies".
• One day Sam And Underwood, one of the "rowdies" bought melons from the local store, and in an attempt to slice his Bass dropped the melon causing two blacks to turn around and stare at the men. Bass and Underwood started throwing stones at them and were chased out of town by the sheriff and from then on Bass was known as an outlaw.
• As an outlaw Bass formed a gang made of four men Tom Nixon, Bill Heffridge, and Jim Berry. The Gang would rob stagecoaches but when the money got low they concentrated • on trains
• The Bass gangs first big train strike was on a Union pacific carrying money from Wells Fargo going west. The gang boarded the train at a water stop in Big Springs Neb. On Sep. 19, 1877, taking more than $60,000 in newly minted twenty- dollar gold pieces, an additional $1,300 from passengers, and $450 from the mail car. Following the robbery Basses first gang split up and most of the gang was captured bu lawmen save Bass.
• When the first Bass gang split Bass composed an new gang of Frank Jackson, Tom Spotswood, Henry Underwood, Tom Johnson, and the Traitor Jim Murphy who would later betray Bass and set Bass up for his, Jim Murhys own advantage. They started on stagecoaches too but when the take was only $43 dollars they swore to concentrate on trains.
• There were many robberies before the one that would turn the gang upside-down.
Frank and Jesse had talked about forming a gang with Cole Younger, but Jesse was not with them when they committed their first robbery in February of 1866. Jesse joined in October. It wasn’t until March 1867 that they pulled their first job together. They tried to rob a bank at Savannah. All three aimed at the bank president, but all were bad shots and only one bullet barely touched him. This job was not successful. Two months later a man and his fifteen-year-old son were found dead and the blame was placed on Jesse. He was very attached to his mother and usually hid out at her house after pulling a job.
In 1933 Nelson, and his new friends, Tommy Carrol and Eddie Green robbed banks in Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Most of the blame for these went to Dillanger and his gang. A year later Dillanger joined gangs with Nelson.
When Wyatt was finally 17 he went to California. His first job was to haul freight. Later on he was hired to grade the railroads for Union Pacific. During his free time he would box and he also became an adapt gambler. Wyatt Earp then moved back to Missouri. His father resigned as constable of the township in Lamar, Missouri, Earp replaced him. By 1870 he'd m...
Mapes, the white sheriff who traditionally dealt with the black people by the use of intimidation and force, finds himself in a frustrating situation of having to deal with a group of black men, each carrying a shotgun and claiming that he shot Beau Boutan. In addition, Candy Marshall, the young white woman whose family owns the plantation, claims that she did it. As each person tells the story, he takes the blame and, with it the glory.
At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde’s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the back seat full of live fowl, and pulled them over arresting them both. His brother claimed full responsibility , and they lat Clyde go since he was so small and innocent looking. Clyde soon mat up with a man named Frank Clause. Clyde soon quit his job at Proctor and gamble and began burglarizing small businesses in Dallas, Lufkin, and Hillsboro, Texas. Although Clyde was introduced into the gang by his brother, he soon became accepted and became the leader. Their crime spree started with stealing a couple of cars and burglarizing a few houses.
that, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he served as a police man three separate
Walter (Buck) Leonard, also known as Buck, nicknamed by his brother, was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on September 8th, 1907.
On March 2, 1793, Samuel Houston was born to Major Sam Houston and Elizabeth Paxton Houston. He was the fifth of nine children. Born at Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley. At the age of thirteen, his father, Major Sam Houston, died suddenly at Dennis Callighan's Tavern near present-day Callaghan, Virginia in Alleghany County, 40 miles west of Timber Ridge while on militia inspections. Mrs. Elizabeth Houston took her nine children to a farm on Baker Creek in Tennessee. Samuel was unhappy with farming and storekeeping, so he ran away from home to live with the Cherokees on Hiwasee Island in the Tennessee River near present-day Dayton, Tennessee. At the age of seventeen, Sam returned to his family for a short period of time and then returned back to the Cherokees where, he was adopted by Chief Oo-Loo-Te-Ka and given the Indian name, "The Raven." Two years later, Sam returned to Maryville, Tennessee, where he opened a successful private school.
The group consisted of; Robert Leroy Parker ( Butch Cassidy), Harry Alonzo Lonabaugh ( The Sundance Kid), William Ellsworth Lay ( Elzy Lay), Ben Kilpatrick ( The Tall Texan), Harvey Logan ( Kid Curry), these outlaws went by the name of The Wild Bunch. ( Biograohy.com Editors). The group hit banks and trains in South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wyoming. The first heist that the gang hit was a bank in Montpelier, Idaho on August 1896, and they ran off with over $7,000. Between heists The Wild Bunch often times hid at The-Hole-In-The-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming. The gang was for a time best known for their relatively low use of violence, during their robberies, they relied on intimidation, and negotiation. The word of the gang spread around the states fairly quickly, and the public was eager to read about their heists. With all the attention the group was receiving, it got to their heads and made the heists even bigger. One of the biggest robberies was a $70,000 haul from a train just outside of Folsom, New Mexico. With all of the train robberies that the gang was pulling off the Union Pacific Railroad company was getting very worried and upset. Unable to stop the Bunch, the Union Pacific Railroad went so far as to propose to Cassidy a pardon in exchange for the promise of ending his robberies and coming to work for the company as an express guard. ( Biograohy.com Editors). Cassidy turned the offer down. With no other choice the railroad company turned to law enforcement to put a permanent end to the Wild Bunch. To hunt the bunch down they hired the famouse Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which pushed Cassidy and the Sundance Kid into South America. With the men in South America, they continued their life of crime robbing trains and
Sam Lacy was born on October 23,1903. He was the son of Samuel Erskine Lacy, and Rose Lacy. When Sam was young him family moved to Washington D.C were her would stay for most of his life. His father, Samuel Lacy was a very keen fan of the Washington Senators, a local baseball team. Sam’s house was walking
After the Civil War, Jesse was an Outlaw. He rode with Frank, his cousins the Younger brothers, and many other men such as Bob and Charlie Ford, Jesse’s supposed killers.
The Scooby Doo gang is made up of 4 kids and a dog who go and solve mysteries together. Each member plays a very important part in the gang. Let’s talk about two of them. The first one is team leader Fred Jones and the other one is the one who is bait for the trap that is Norville Shaggy Rogers. Both of these members are different in many ways, but they are also the same. For the gang to work properly they need both members.
The young man believed that he did not have to ask someone to move their hands, especially a nigger. This outraged him and he began to shout obscenities and racial slurs at Patterson. Soon after, a stone throwing fight erupted between the white hobos and the black hobos that were riding on the train. All but one white youth was forced of the train by the rocks. This white youth named Orville Gilley was pulled back on. The train itself was picking up speed and Gilley could have gotten killed.
who Sam asks to help him with the case because he knew he needed the
The Smales were a suburban, upper middle class, white family living in Southern Africa until political turmoil and war forced them to flee from their home and lives. Rebel black armies in Soweto and other areas of Southern Africa revolted against the government and the minority white race, attacking radio and television stations and burning the homes of whites. The Smales needed to get out quickly. Their servant July, whom they had always treated well and had a very uncommon relationship with, offered to guide the family to his village. The Smales, having no other options, accepted July’s offer and ran in haste and confusion to the dearth village. They knew little of the drastic adjustments they would have to make in order to survive in July’s rustic village. These adjustments would soon threaten their relationships with one another and their family’s structure.