Arkansas Tom, the Doolin Gang’s ‘Baddest Bad Man,’ Was a Survivor

He dodged bullets at Ingalls in 1893 and for decades afterward. Arkansas Tom Jones—real name Roy Daugherty—may have outlived his time, but he did not die a forgotten man. After detectives in Joplin, Missouri, finally gunned him down on August 16, 1924, some 5,000 people filed past his body at a local mortuary. While some …

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