Wild West Characters

[Drusilla]

What happened to Ike Clanton, Bob Ford, Frank James, Long Nose Kate, Geronimo, Virgil Earp and Captain Reno?
They're the type of characters who were involved in major incidents in the history of the Old West, but what became of them later? Do any of our friends from the USA know?

[dotjhawkes]

Virgil Earp died of pneumonia at Goldfield, Nevada on 19th October, 1905.

[dotjhawkes]

June 1, 1887

Ike Clanton is murdered by Jonas V. Brighton, near Springerville, Arizona. He was 40 years old. Ike Clanton was buried where he fell in an un-marked grave along Eagle Creek. Ike was not a wanted man when J.V. Brighton gunned him down. Brighton was arrested for the murder, but the charges were later dropped. Some people believe Brighton was hired by a local cattle association to rid the area of rustlers, while others believe Brighton was a hired killer..

[dotjhawkes]

In 1892 Ford was allowed to return to Creede where he opened a Dance Hall. However in June, a massive fire burned down the establishment along with most of the rest of the town. Ford had his business going again in a couple of days under a make-shift tent. A day later a man by the name of Edward O. Kelly stepped into the Tent with a sawed off shotgun. He approached Bob Ford and levelling his weapon, fired both barrels point blank. He became the man who killed the man who killed Jesse James.

[dotjhawkes]

After Holliday's death, Kate married George Cummings, a blacksmith by trade, in Colorado. The marriage lasted about a year and the couple split up. Kate found work in Cochise, Arizona for awhile, before taking a job with John Howard as a house keeper in Dos Cabezas, Arizona, where she worked until his death in 1930.

Using the name Cummings, she applied to the Arizona Pioneers Home and was finally accepted after a six month wait. Kate had never become a citizen of the United States.

On November 2, 1940, a week before her 90th birthday, Kate passed away. She's buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. Her headstone simply reads Mary K. Cummings.

[dotjhawkes]

Geronimo's final surrender in 1886 was the last significant Indian guerrilla action in the United States. At the end, his group consisted of only 16 warriors, 12 women, and 6 children. Upon their surrender, Geronimo and over 300 of his fellow Chiricahuas were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida. One year later many of them were relocated to the Mt. Vernon barracks in Alabama, where about one quarter died from tuberculosis and other diseases. Geronimo died on Feb. 17, 1909, a prisoner of war, unable to return to his homeland. He was buried in the Apache cemetery at:

Fort Sill, Oklahoma
437 Quanah Road
Fort Sill, OK (73503-5000)

405-351-5123

[shaneystar2]

Geronimo's final surrender in 1886 was the last significant Indian guerrilla action in the United States. At the end, his group consisted of only 16 warriors, 12 women, and 6 children. Upon their surrender, Geronimo and over 300 of his fellow Chiricahuas were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida. One year later many of them were relocated to the Mt. Vernon barracks in Alabama, where about one quarter died from tuberculosis and other diseases. Geronimo died on Feb. 17, 1909, a prisoner of war, unable to return to his homeland. He was buried in the Apache cemetery at Fort Sill ,Arizona.

[shaneystar2]

Bit of synchronicity there Dot !!

[dotjhawkes]

Living on the earnings of a pension clerk after a failed second marriage, Reno died of pneumonia in 1889 following surgery for mouth cancer. His dismissal was reviewed in 1967 and the records were revised to reflect an honorable discharge. This was brought about by the efforts of a distant relative.

[shaneystar2]

Long Nose Kate is really interesting......
http://thenaturalamerican.com/big_nose_kate.htm

[dotjhawkes]

lol shaneystar

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWjamesF.htm

[Drusilla]

Thank you so much Dot, and you too Shaneystar. I'm quite stunned at your efforts!

[dotjhawkes]

I am nearly finished reading a book I found in my Dad's house after he died in Feb, he had it along time but coincidentally it is just released in the US starring Brad Pitt.

It is The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford.

[shaneystar2]

Have you ever read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Dot? If not ..do..I think you will enjoy it.I am fascinated by the American Indians and their history and culture . It chronicles the American West from 1860-1890. The book tells the stories of such famous Red Indian warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.

[dotjhawkes]

I read it in 1973 else 4 shaneystar, my friend from school and i bought it between us as it was the original hardback and was expensive then, i also had some Buffy Saint Marie Albums too.

I now have a rather large collection of books on the North American indians, as my Dad bought an awful lot over the years.

[jno]

Bat Masterson, who got out of town just before the gunfight at the OK Corral, later became sports editor of a New York newspaper; Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls is based on him. Perhaps the oddest end of any Wild West character. He died in 1921.

[apache050358]

I heard Geronoimo jumped out of an aeroplane.

[dotjhawkes]

LOL @ the injun