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Joe Lefors

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Joe Lefors (February 20, 1865 – October 1, 1940) was a lawman in the closing years of the Old West. [1]

27 relations: American frontier, Bighorn Mountains, Buffalo, Wyoming, Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cattle raiding, Charlie Siringo, Contract killing, George Curry (Wild Bunch), Gunfighter, Harvey Logan, Helena, Montana, Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Lefors, Texas, Newcastle, Wyoming, Paris, Texas, Pinkerton (detective agency), Posse comitatus, Rawlins, Wyoming, Reconnaissance, The Guardian, Tom Horn, Union Pacific Railroad, United States Marshals Service, Wilcox, Wyoming, Wild Bunch, Wyoming.

American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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Bighorn Mountains

The Bighorn Mountains (Apsáalookěi: Basawaxaawúua or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 miles (320 km) northward on the Great Plains.

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Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo is a city in Johnson County, Wyoming, United States.

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Butch Cassidy

Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, Bureau of Land Management.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).

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Cattle raiding

Cattle raiding is the act of stealing cattle.

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Charlie Siringo

Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855 – October 18, 1928) was an American lawman, detective, bounty hunter, agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Contract killing

Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

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George Curry (Wild Bunch)

George Sutherland Currie (March 20, 1871 – April 17, 1900), also known as George "Flat-Nose" Curry, was a Canadian-American robber of the American Old West.

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Gunfighter

Gunslinger and gunfighter are literary words used historically to refer to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and had participated in gunfights and shootouts.

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Harvey Logan

Harvey Alexander Logan (1867 – June 17, 1904), also known as Kid Curry, was an American outlaw and gunman who rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's infamous Wild Bunch gang during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Helena, Montana

Helena is the state capital of the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.

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Hole-in-the-Wall Gang

The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang was a gang in the American Wild West, which took its name from the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts.

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Lefors, Texas

Lefors is a town in Gray County, Texas, United States.

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Newcastle, Wyoming

Newcastle is a city in and the county seat of Weston County, Wyoming, United States.

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Paris, Texas

Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States.

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Pinkerton (detective agency)

Pinkerton, founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850 and currently a subsidiary of Securitas AB.

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Posse comitatus

Posse comitatus is the common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff, or other law officer, to conscript any able-bodied man to assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon, similar to the concept of the "hue and cry." Originally found in English common law, it is generally obsolete; however, it survives in the United States, where it is the law enforcement equivalent of summoning the militia for military purposes.

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Rawlins, Wyoming

Rawlins is a city in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and other activities in the area.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tom Horn

Thomas Horn, Jr. (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was a scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century American Old West.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States Marshals Service

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law-enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Wilcox, Wyoming

Wilcox is a populated place in Albany County, Wyoming, United States of America.

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Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang or the Oklahombres, were a gang of American outlaws based in the Indian Territory that were active in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks and stores, holding up trains, and killing lawmen.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lefors

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