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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Tom McCarty
The Oregonian - my hometown newspaper - has an article up about a couple searching for Tom McCarty's burial plot. It's an interesting read.
He was "wanted dead or alive" longer than any other frontier-era outlaw. He was a mentor to Butch Cassidy. And he committed one of the boldest one-man bank holdups of the Old West. Oregon badman Tom McCarty is nearly forgotten today. But in 1899, the New York Herald termed him a "king of bandits" and "Napoleon of outlawry." His exploits "make those of Jesse James . . seem like child's play," the newspaper said. Now, an Oregon husband-wife writing team is searching for McCarty's burial place. Jon and Donna Skovlin of Cove believe McCarty lived out his last years in Imnaha and died there sometime after 1917, when he was 67. - Oregonlive
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