10 Nebraska Outlaws and Their Stories

[Mavric]

Interesting article from the LJS for you history/crime buffs.

Nebraska was home or business for a number of notorious thieves and scalawags in the years from territorial days through the Great Depression. Here are 10 of them and their stories.

Maurice "Blondie" Denning
Wild Bill Hickok
Barker gang
Doc Middleton
Jesse James
Sam Bass
Flat Nose Curry
Thomas Limerick
Kid Wade
David McCanles

[The Dude]

I'm a fan of interesting things. This is one of them.

[knapplc]

NUPolo8 was #11 on this list.

[NUance]

I'm a fan of interesting things. This is one of them.

 

Here's a book recommendation then: Empire on the Platte by Richard Crabb. Nonfiction account of a Texas cattle baron trying to drive out Swedish settlers in Nebraska so he could establish a northern cattle empire. Complete with gunfights and a lynching. It's a good read!

 

[JJ Husker]

Knapp refers to the 10 fellows on this list as "youngsters".

[knapplc]

Knapp refers to the 10 fellows on this list as "youngsters".

 

YOU ARE OLDER THAN ME!!!!

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

^{good stuff! if your a history buff with some time to spare look up Liver Eating Johnson ,this is who the movie Jerimiah Johnson is based on. dude was a bad ass. another one is the Mad Trapper Albert Johnson in Canada.theres a lengthy replay of a radio broadcast/interviews with some of the Canadian Mounties who were involved in the manhunt for the trapper on youtube. neither is Nebraska related but good reads.}

Edited March 23, 2016 by man eating mastodon