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1881: George Parrott, future footwear
ExecutedToday.com ^ | March 22, 2013 | Meaghan Good

Posted on 03/22/2021 2:26:22 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1881, George Parrott, a cattle rustler popularly known as Big Nose George, was lynched in Rawlins, Wyoming.

His story doesn’t end with his death, however: as his Wikipedia entry notes, Parrott was notable for “Banditry, Murder, being made into a pair of shoes.” Oh, and being pickled.

The series of events that lead to Parrott’s death began on August 19, 1878, when he and his gang tried to wreck a train near Medicine Bow, Wyoming so they could rob it. They loosened a rail and waited patiently, but an alert section foreman spotted the loose rail and notified railroad authorities, who came and fixed it before the train arrived.

Realizing the law would be after them, Parrott’s gang fled toward Elk Mountain and hid in Rattlesnake Canyon, waiting to ambush the posse they knew would be coming.

As soon as the lawmen were within their rifle sights, the bandits opened fire. Parrott killed Tip Vincent, a Union Pacific Railroad agent; one of the other fugitives, “Dutch” Charley Bates, killed Deputy Sheriff Robert Widdowfield. The gang then fled and hid out in Montana for a span, eventually reaching Canada — and all the while continuing their criminal ways....

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1 posted on 03/22/2021 2:26:22 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...

Well, no.

I don't see this blog on the excerpt list.

Do you see this blog on the excerpt list?

But here you are, excerpting this blog for no reason.

So crazy.

2 posted on 03/22/2021 2:30:59 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
"Dr. Osborne was disappointed that Parrott’s nipples weren’t on the tips of the toes like he’d requested (!!!), but you can’t have everything you want in life."

Nice.

3 posted on 03/22/2021 2:34:31 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This never happened on Gun Smoke.


4 posted on 03/22/2021 3:08:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Wallet made from the skin of the grave robber William Burke.


5 posted on 03/22/2021 3:11:44 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: CheshireTheCat

Hmmm... Medicine Bow...

I missed this episode of “The Virginian”.


6 posted on 03/22/2021 3:22:35 PM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001 (Standing Myazz)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Some fancy footwork there.


7 posted on 03/22/2021 3:32:13 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: humblegunner

“Do you see this blog on the excerpt list?

But here you are, excerpting this blog for no reason.

So crazy.”

Get help, Humble. You’ve just described yourself, because you’re the only one who gives a good sh!t about these things. Your one man crusade has left you limping away from Alexandria on foot, with a hole cut in your pants so the dissentery can escape. Sort of like King Louis IX, later canonized.

“Honoring a vow he had made while praying for recovery during a serious illness, Louis IX led the Seventh and Eighth crusades against the Ayyubids, Bahriyya Mamluks and Hafsid Kingdom. He was captured in the first and ransomed, and he died from dysentery during the latter. He was succeeded by his son Philip III....”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France

Oh, no! I excerpted a wiki article. I’m a blog pimp! Noooooo!

Now that I’ve confessed, maybe I’ll be canonized. Present Pope will consider my not being Catholic a plus.


8 posted on 03/22/2021 3:41:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: kaehurowing

haha!


9 posted on 03/22/2021 3:43:13 PM PDT by bitt (America is the Home of the Brave, not the regime of the silenced.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Oh, no! I excerpted a wiki article.

You pretty much don't understand the issue.

You don't write Wiki anything, and don't stand
to gain by excerpting it.

There are folks who excerpt their material here
in order to profit from Free Republic's traffic.

I know, it's complicated.

Have a cookie and a nap.

10 posted on 03/22/2021 4:08:56 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Well now, that was a good one! In the end you think the respectable people are crazier than the murderous criminals! A tale for our times if there ever was one!


11 posted on 03/22/2021 4:18:52 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: humblegunner

I do understand the issue, and you haven’t established any connection between this web site and the person you are recklessly accusing of being a blog pimp. It may as well be a Wiki article. Besides, nobody elected you sheriff in charge of prosecuting blog pimpery. Get a grip. If it’s a good blog, let him make one tenth of a cent per click off it. It is a good blog, because people are interested in the content. Case closed.


12 posted on 03/22/2021 4:19:00 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5
you haven’t established any connection between this web site and the person you are recklessly accusing of being a blog pimp.

If searching someone's article history is too hard for you, just say so.
I might even help you if you ask nicely.

Besides, nobody elected you sheriff in charge of prosecuting blog pimpery.

Those same people didn't elect you to worry about what I do.

Case closed.

Well, that sure settles things.

13 posted on 03/22/2021 4:30:18 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: humblegunner

“If searching someone’s article history is too hard for you, just say so.
I might even help you if you ask nicely.”

WTF for? I don’t care if he’s “pimping a blog”. Nobody cares except you, including Jim. It’s a non-crime. It’s actually in keeping with the philosophy of capitalism more than having fund-raising drives every quarter. They ought to cut Freep in for a share of the profits. But really, if I could speculate idly, there are no profits to speak of, just maybe a fraction of a penny per click, or hundred clicks. It’s all BS.

“Those same people didn’t elect you to worry about what I do.”

You’ve done it to me. You’ve done it to my friends. You’ve crapped all over more than a few threads, including mine. It’s harassment, pure and simple, and it’s nonsense. Nobody likes you, but we tolerate you because you’re not worth flaming and driving out, either. Just a nuisance, nothing more. Run along. I wanna hear more about weird executions.


14 posted on 03/22/2021 6:36:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Those same people didn’t elect you to worry about what I do.”

What you’ve done, btw, on at least one occasion, is tell everyone that I hate Jesus because I don’t post anything from Christian sources. What kind of stupid sh!t is that. I wouldn’t even call it anti-Semitic, it’s just stupid and obnoxious. I don’t quote any Buddhist sources, either. Does that mean I hate Buddha?


15 posted on 03/22/2021 6:41:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5
What you’ve done, btw, on at least one occasion, is tell everyone that I hate Jesus because I don’t post anything from Christian sources.

Surely not everyone.

What kind of stupid sh!t is that.

You tell me, you're the one posting that stuff.

I don’t quote any Buddhist sources, either. Does that mean I hate Buddha?

Well, frankly, you do seem pretty hateful.

You're posting to yourself, by the way.

16 posted on 03/23/2021 11:21:44 AM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: humblegunner

Have a nice life. When our paths do cross and you’re continuing to f#$( with people, I will call you out. Hatred? Just my duty as a decent human being to confront bullies. I reserve hatred for people who harm children, whether by teaching them lies or by throwing them up against a wall.

If some fat guy wants to sit around and meditate and found a religion on that, it doesn’t bother me. If you want to worship a dead guy, that’s your business. I don’t hate the dead guy or the fat dead guy. I just worship the One G-d who makes us all.


17 posted on 03/23/2021 2:40:48 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5
I will call you out.

Call me out?

Do you expect to find me in a Dodge City saloon in the 1850's?

"I'ma callin' you out, Black Bart!"
Get over yourself.

And stop hating on Buddha, he never did anything to you.

18 posted on 03/23/2021 2:49:58 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: humblegunner

Now you’re claiming you’re black, Bart? I don’t think so. You’re a 100% Caucasian Texas male, of presumably heterosexual orientation. You trying for some affirmative action? Figures. No other way for you to get ahead, what with your miniscule skill sets. ‘bye.


19 posted on 03/23/2021 3:01:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5
Now you’re claiming you’re black, Bart?

Let me introduce you.

Black Bart Blues

20 posted on 03/23/2021 3:30:09 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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