European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Billy he kid above was born in Manhattan . By John Reese staff writer the wild Bunch operated in North and South America. Photo no forcing them to split up after lie bushwhacked renamed de Kelly emptied a Bob in Pueblo  was these shot a Mingus Inlo and lived who invented train robbery off on  Job was Nicot of television  Aine rican Jiecai shot Wood s.u., to e continual enlighten movies to say nothing of has become practically not to know that a wild Bill Hickok in dead Ami that Bill was holding also it takes somebody or Olav i dior int of the wild West not to know that Pat Garrett  the Brave pm Man us finally did m Billy us kid near it bumper . But How Many admirers of he wild Inid wooly bad men know that Garrett my l the kit with Hickok s Colt and for thai matter u really Hasne or been substantial de that wild Bill .11 at All actually there Are some is holding Queens holding any lung it ii Midi Slife Guise. Name a n t Bield aces and eights. I ideals u Hoay a its say he u Imi i to i " g i we ii . Al him Lud out hi..d Kim. Hickok s real name was James under Hickok and he is born i im1 in Troy Grove Iii. Thua s tule just about As last an Hombre with women As he was Vil revolvers in act two of the hum red Lus men he claimed to live killed not counting indians died under Hickok s guns because of disputes Over women. These unlucky Fellows were named Phil Coe and Dave Tull. Also link known in the lore of he esl is the aborted Duel Between hic k and Billy the Kiel. The Story Moc that each had whittled out a Niche in his respective area As a lop gun the kid in the Southwest and Hickok to the Lime in Tho Dakotas. It was Only natural for speculation to arise Over which was better. Bets began to "0down and hints were dropped which supposedly sent the kid Riding toward dead Wood Lor the. Showdown. Bui Fate in the form of Mccail intervened so what promised to have been the gunfight of All time never came , Lio was a Sodden Neer do Well perhaps taking in Art from report that Hickok  going Blind died without Ever revealing his motive for killing wild Bill. When asked Why he shot him in the Back of the head in Stead of facing Linn Mccall answered Cuje 12 the stars and stripes a Eft Bill Powers sunday did wild Bill hold aces and eights Queens or no hand at All four of the Dalton gang killed in Coffeyville Kan. Frond get Dilion Dick Broadwell. 1968 quite simply that he did t fancy com mitting suicide. After Hickok was buried ins friends sent his belongings to his sister  Barnes of Oberlin Kan., who m turn gave his pistol to Garrett. Gar rett a great admirer of Hickok was carrying that gun the night he took the kid in Pete Maxwell s House. Garrett lost some stature because the report got around that he had shot the kid in the dark without giving him any warn ing like Mccall Garrett probably did t fancy committing suicide. I in the name of William  a which was the kid s right name comes up someone is almost sure comment that he killed 21 no ii one for each year of his life. Ins my Hhas been fostered by biographers with More taste for exaggeration than  scholars of the West ii Hue to Ward the belief that he kid  More than three men but prob ably not More than 11. Not that 11 i such a modest record Lor a Jovitf scr of 21. Bouncy incidentally was Horn Ina Manhattan  and West by his parents As a lot of admirers of us slingers like to not is popularly be fearsome James Brothers train robbery. The first Ever staged was brought , near Seymour.  by the Reno Broth ers gang. There were. Five i Rottiers Frank Simeon Clint. John and William. The Pinkerton detectives c a u g h Frank William and Simeon and another member of the gang and locked the up in the new Albany ind., jail. While they were awaiting trial a mob of vigilantes broke in shot the sheriff and lynched All four. The Lynching pretty Well ended he depredations of the Reno Brothers but the James boys picked up where they left off. With the Jameses on most of their Capers were the younger Brothers Cole Bob John and Jim. Another gang which terrorized the West 20 to years later the Dalton was related to the Youngers. The Mother of the Dalton Bob  and Emmett was the aunt of the y dinners whose father was her brother. Whether the example of the Youngers bad anything 1o do with the bloody careers of the Dalton has never been established. However Emmett Dalton. The Young est of the three turned straight when he was pardoned out of prison. He went to los Angeles in the 1920s and became a successful real estate operator. Heals did considerable writing in the cause of Law and order. He wrote som movie scenarios and played a few Small parts and died peacefully in los Ange Les in 937. Brought  gun Jesse James a heaps the last of men to operate before tamed things Down in known As " he wild he old time bad Law and order the West were  their As a Robin Hood of his Day who stole from the evil wealthy railroads and Banks to give to the poor. Hollywood it must be said has t done much to yet the record straight on this score. The truth of the matter was that Jesse Woodson James was a cold blooded callous killer and a thief. Therein no creditable record anywhere of his having Given any poor widows so Muchas a Dollar of his ill gotten gains. Jesse whom his friends called Dingus mar ried his Cousin the comely Zerelda Mimms of Kansas City. This indirectly led to his comeuppance because Jesse was shot in the Back by scr Clad s Cousin Bob Ford for the Jill of u Reward. Frank James Jesse s older brother whose full name was Alexander Frank Lin James died in 1015, peacefully with his boots off. Bob Ford got Bis 11 years Leader was Pombeii Lekoy Parker whose most used six gun alias was Butch As Sidy. Most chroniclers of the Bart old Days referred to him incorrectly As George Parker. This error May have originated from a police wanted no Tice which listed him As  butt took James d. Koran and Paul Saim in the estimable Book pictorial his tory of the wild West to Correct the . Wild Bunch which operated at the turn of the Century principally i Wyoming  also singular in that it operated in both North and South Amer Ica. The wild Bunch was formed from the remnants of a shifting roster of madmen known As the Hole in the Wall  this name came from a rugged and inaccessible area where the out Laws bid out Between forays. It Wasa Maze of eroded canyons with Only one or two Well hidden accesses which discouraged sheriffs from trying to smoke them  in the wild Bunch were Harry Longbaugh. Alias the Sundance kid Black Jack Ketchum Harvey Logan known As kid Curry Ben Kilpatrick called the tall texan and various other bunnies rustlers and dry Gulcher who came and went. After several years of profitable rustling and train and Bank robberies the Law in Wyom ing put so much heat on the Wil Bunch that the men named along with a couple of girlfriends went to Newyork. There dressed like Eastern dude with stiff collars and Derby hats they committed the tactical Blunder of pos ing for a group photograph. Eventually the Pinkerton is got hold of it forcing the gang to split up and  and Longbaugh to Light out for South Amer Ica. There they continued in a rather desultory fashion their depredations unbanks and animal trains moving Gold out of the Mountain ruining  and Longbaugh finally met a violent end under lie guns of Bolivia cavalrymen in 1 0 after holding up a mine near la a. Cas id saved his last Cartridge for himself. The single Icard by the Mikii ers marked of the i a t i the t old a esl the stars and stripes pane 13