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Have you ever wondered what made some

of the bad men of the old West the way they

were? This question, has intrigued me for

some time, so I finally decided to ask some

questions on the subject. Putting all the

answers together was like fitting the pieces

of a giant jigsaw puzzle, but when I was

through, I had some mighty interesting facts.

Let's start with Jesse James. His home was

a peaceful farm in Missouri, which later be-

came a virtual battleground for Quantrill's

Missouri Border Guerrilla men and the Kansas

Jayhawker "Regulators."

When the "Regulators" discovered that

Jesse's parents were in sympathy with the

South, they destroyed his home, beat him

unmercifully, attempted to hang his father,

anil imprisoned his aged mother. Jesse's

brother, Frank, escaped to join Quantrill's

forces, and Jesse soon followed him. .

• By the end of the war, both Jesse and

Frank had only one thought in mind— get-

ting even— and like all other bad men, they

didn't know when to stop. They continued

getting even until ihey had become hardened

criminals and murderers/ and until society

finally got even with them.

Vengeance seems to be one of the strong-

est human emotions, one which is difficult

to forge! or put aside. This motive frequently

instigated the bad man's first criminal act.

George Coe, for example, once swore venge-

ance against Sheriff Brady of Lincoln

County, New Mexico, for Brady's cruel treat-

ment of him. Coe was arrested for a crime

pt which he was entirely innocent." iCoe^escribed this incident in his memoirs.

Frontier Fighter: "... They tied my feet to-

gether under the horse's belly (a commonmethod of preventing escape). At the same

time they bound Scurlock (another prisoner)

in a like manner. Then, with bedcord, they

tied my hands together after circling myarms about Surlock's waist. A slow, drizzling

rain had begun to fall. The cords on my wrists

tightened as they wet through, adding to mymisery! Though I have suffered gun wounds

and broken bones, that ride stands out in mymind as the most horrible three hours I ever

endured."

Swearing to get revenge on Brady and his

cohorts, Coe soon turned outlaw and killer,

and became a leading figure in the famous

Lincoln County war.

Another example which proves how strong

the motive of vengeance is for personal

injury may be found in the story of Clay

Allison.

Late one night, while making camp in the

W^hita country of New Mexico, Allison was

suddenly attacked and beaten by three men,

Left for dead, Allison miraculously recovered

and spent the following six months tracing

his attackers through the entire Western part

of the United States until he finally dis-

covered and killed all three men.

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Strange as it may seem, the famed Dalton

Brothers, Bob, G*at, Frank and Emmett, were

once Osage policemen. Their life of crime

began after they were refused salaries due

them as members of the police force, and

because of this injustice they became bitter

and sought vengeance on all organized law.

The sudden death of their brother Frank,

while still a police officer, spurred their

hatred and was a definite influence to their

hot-tempered, vengeful nature.

William Clarke Quantrill, though not as

well known as Billy the Kid or The Dalton

or James boys, was perhaps the worst bad

man the West will ever know.

A quiet schoolteacher prior to the Civil

War, Quantrill changed into a bloodthirsty

murderer when his brother was wantonly

killed by the Kansas Jayhawkers. Organizing

a baad of nearly five hundred angry Southern

sympathizers, Quantrill completely burned,

ransacked and pillaged an entire Kansas

town, murdered eighty Yankees at a single

command, and spread violence across the

country.

Thousands suffered because of the need-

less death of one man and the savage nature

of a maniac who actually believed he wasright in avenging his brother in such a

manner.

In the summer of 1851, gold was dicovered

fit Pihos Altos, in the heart of the Apachecountry. The presence of so many white menworried the Indians, especially their great

chief, Mangus Colorado.

The Apache leader feared an attack, and

he watched the white men closely. He wassurprised when all they did was dig and

climb around the rocks of the desert moun-

tains. Since they seemed to be interested only

in finding the yellow metal they called gold,

Mangus decided that the quietest way to get

them out of Apache country would be to tell

them of another mine, richer than the Pihos

Altos diggings, in Mexico territory.

There was nothing wrong with the plan—except that it didn't work. The wise Apachemisjudged the white men and their greed —for none of the miners would believe that

Mangus knew of richer gold deposits, or that

he would tell of them unless it was a trick

to take their lives.

The miners, on the other hand, wished to

be rid of thr Indian, and one night they de-

cided they could have great sport by giving

Mangus Colorado a sound whipping. It

seemed like an amusing idea to these frontier

men, and it would surely convince the Indian

that they were not interested in his wild talk

of oro in another mountain range.

A dozen men jumped the unsuspecting

Apache and tied him to a tree, then beat him

nearly senseless with a blacksnake whip.

The chief was badly hurt when he was finally

released, and he barely managed to reach

his own camp and tell his story This was the

beginning of real trouble, and was a serious

mistake on the part of the white men.

Mangus Colorado swore revenge, morefor the indignity and treachery than for the

huge scars on his back He had been very

patient with the white men who were in-

vading his country— patient m spite of the

many Indians who had been killed already

in ambushes, massacres and real battles. But

the whipping was too much, and he never

forgot it. It was a great insult to a great chief.

and Mangus Colorado spent the rest, of his

life avenging his wrong.

Many white men in the Southwest died at

the hands of the Apaches because of this

needless brutality inflicted by the Pihos Altos

miners, and perhaps the whole history of the

area was changed because of it-

The strange stories behind the bad men.

of the West could fill many volumes if told

in detail, but it seems that one particular in^

cident. often a minor one, started these menon their lives of crime.

Billy the Kid blamed his outlaw career on

his stepfather, while Langford Peel blamed

ingratitude of the people he had befriended

as the reason for his life of crime. But what-

ever the reason, these were selfish men whofailed to possess the one common emotion

— forgiveness.

Unlike Bat Masterson, Pat Garrett and the

true heroes of the Old West, these men lived

theii lives in vengeance, until vengeanc*

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