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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Wild Bunch
The following is partial text of an article sent in by Mike Bell - thanks again Mike and sorry about my tardiness. Jerry Nickle - webmaster of The Sundance Kid & Henry Long - recently sent in another new article that I hope to have transcribed sometime next week. Thanks again to both, and if anyone out there reading this has access to any articles not found on this website, by all means send them in.
"A short time ago there was published in these columns an article concerning the gang of outlawed desperadoes who having found their native health too sultry for them on account of the hue and cry raised by their misdeeds, came to this country for pastures new. The following story of one of their raids was told by one of the bunch to a gentleman at present residing here who has written it out for publication. The Winnemocca Bank Hold Up, as told by one of the Wild Bunch. When the sheriffs of fourteen western states and Pinkerton Detectives read this title, they will put their ears to the ground and go off on a hot trail after yours truly.
So perhaps I had better get on the move, for I know those fellows and know they have a way of sticking to a trail once they have found it that makes a hunted man wish he hadn't done the act. The Wild Bunch had dwindled to a handful, in fact you could count them all on one hand, out of a bunch of twenty hard hitting, straight shooting huskey cyclones that were in business only a few years ago, all were gone except a few of us; most of them went with their boots on; only one of the boys has an address that expires with himself. My funds were getting low, so I drifted over to Powder Springs, Nevada; one of our numerous rendezvouses; where I hoped to find some of the bunch." - More
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