The Ten Worst Wild West Outlaws

By Alton Pryor

The outlaws rampaged through the countryside, often killing, raping, or mutilating their victims. While all were finally captured, it sometimes took the wiles of the best western lawmen or troops of soldiers to bring the villains to justice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alton Pryor
• Release date: Dec 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301523931

Alton Pryor

Alton Pryor has been a writer for magazines, newspapers, and wire services. After retiring, he turned to writing books. He is the author of 18 books, which he has published himself.

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The Ten Worst

Wild West Outlaws

Alton Pryor

Copyright 2012 by Alton Pryor

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Rufus Buck Gang

Chapter 2: John King Fisher

Chapter 3: Robert Clay Allison

Chapter 4: Cullen Montgomery Baker

Chapter 5: John Joel Glanton

Chapter 6: Henry Dutch Henry Born

Chapter 7: Boone Helm, the Kentucky Cannibal

Chapter 8: Nathaniel Reed

Chapter 9: Marion Hedgepeth, the Debonair Killer

Chapter 10: Big Nose George Parrott

(Author’s note: By selecting the 10 worst Wild West outlaws, we were not looking for fame but more for downright dirty tactics and habits. Our collection may amaze and startle the reader.

Chapter 1

The Rufus Buck Gang

Rufus Buck Gang. Rufus Buck is in the center.

No outlaw gang every terrorized an area like the Rufus Buck gang.

Their two-week spree of robbery, rape and murder sent fear throughout the Indian Territory that would one day become the state of Oklahoma.

Rufus Buck was not a Robin Hood. The young Yuchi (non-Muskhogean Creek) fullblood was vicious and possessed a depravity that was rare in Indian outlaws.

He was born and raised near Okmulgee, in the Creek Nation. It was there that he committed his first robberies. They were minor crimes but so successfully carried out that three young Creeks, Sam Sampson, Meome July and Lewis Davis were attracted to him. A fourth man, a Creek-Negro mixed-blood youngster named Lukey Davis, also joined Buck’s gang.

For several hundred years there was a strong infiltration of Negro blood into the Creek tribe. Few Creeks were one hundred percent Indian.

The Buck Gang rose to prominence in 1895. Buck is said to have boasted that his outfit would make a record that would sweep all the other gangs of the territory into insignificance.

Their first deed was to kill four men, commit half a dozen robberies and rape a middle-age widow by the name of Wilson. All five took turns ravishing her.

The Buck Gang came upon the cabin of Henry Hassan one day while exploring along a small stream called Snake Creek. Hassan and his wife knew nothing about the Buck Gang or the deadly trail the left behind them.

They said they would pay Mrs. Hassan if she would cook them a good dinner. She agreed to do so. She was a handsome woman. When they finished eating, instead of paying her, they forced her husband outside and took turns guarding him. The gang members