Jumat, 13 Oktober 2017

Idaho Bill: No Jail Could Hold Him

A rather inefficient outlaw, except when it came to escaping, Bill also claimed to have cheated death at the Mountain Meadows Massacre. William “Idaho Bill” Sloan arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on May 7, 1875, as an advance man for Civil War veteran Charles C. Carpenter, a boomer then organizing an expedition into Indian treaty …

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