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(The story of Sam Bass, the
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They had bought most of the steers
on credit and were taking some
for other cowmen.
After stopping at Dodge City, they
trailed their herd on to Ogallala,
where they sold most of the cattle.-
The others they trailed on to Dead-
wood, then at the height of its gold-
mining boom. There Sam and Joel
quickly squandered their money in
gambling. To recoup their losses,
they and four other drifters held
up several stagecoaches. But the
loot was mere chicken feed.
. _ Trying for bigger loot, the sextet
rode down to Big Springs, Nebras-
ka. There, on the evening of Sept
ember 18, 1877, they held up the
gold pieces from the express car
and several thousand more from
the passengers. After dividing the
spoils, they separated in pairs,
some to meet violent death while
resisting arrest.
turned south, stopping at Waco to
break the last of his gold pieces
at the Ranch Saloon. Farther on,
they camped on Brushy Creek near
Round Rock and laid plans to rob
a small bank there.
But by this time, Jim Murphy,
one of Sam’s associates, had turn-
ed against him and had informed
the Rangers of the holdup plan
Rangers and local peace officers
closed in on the remainder of the
band at' Round Rock. In the ensu-
ing battle, one of the Bass men
and a deputy sheriff were killed.
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By WAYNE GARD
In the rolling prairies of Denton
ghostly Sam might aim his six-
shooter.
In the towns, people recoiled in
fright from the wax figure of Sam
that was carried from place to
place and exhibited to curious
throngs. Meanwhile, cowboys to
their evening camps were telling
and retelling the story of the Hoos-
ier orphan who thought he had
“the world by the tail with a down-
hill pull.” They noted that Sam
played fox with sheriffs and Txas
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Many men and women have reported
amazing resuits with thia home recipe. It‘a
easy — no trouble at all and costs less than
most reducing preparations. Just go to
your druggist and ask for four ounces of
Barcentrate. Pour this into a pint bottle
and add it ounces of grapefruit juice.
Then take two tablespoonsful twice a day.
That's all there is te it. If the very first
bottle docan't show the simple, may way
to lose bulky fat and help regain slender,
more graceful curves: if reducible pounds
and inches of excess fat don’t just seem to
disappear almost like magie from neck,
chin, arms, boat, abdomen, hipa. calves
and ankles, just return the empt bottle
for your money back.
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ABILENE MAN
LOST 15 POUNDS
Mr. Paul Gordon, 526 Chestnut St., Abi-
lene, Texas, wrote us as followa: "1 have
host 15 pounds taking Barrentrate. I take
a hottie or two occasionally to keep my
weight down and I have never found any-
thing any better for keepingdown gas on
the stomach."
SAN ANTONIO LADY
LOST 20 POUNDS
‘Before taking Barcentrate, I weighed
160 pounds." writes Mrs. Nellie Browning,
827 Kinr Ave. San Antonio, Texaa. “I
now weigh 140. a boat of 20 pounds, and
'eel like a new person."
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and brought back to Round Rock
There he died after another day.
It was July 21, his twenty-seventh
birthday.
The legendary Sam Bass already
was in the making. In folklore,
Sam soon became a cowboy hero
who refused to betray his pals,
a Robin Hood who eluded pursurers
with ease and shared his stolen
gold without stint Of the many
desperadoes of the frontier, he was
remembered as "the beloved band-
it.”
Seven months after Bass saw the
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artived here younlay eventng None
here know his luiliMi
Hasa Jackeoa aud Baram, atia
reDbena, came to to-dny to meke ar
rnagtmeats to rohthe task Deputy
Sharifr Gtiace, nm mapectiag who
tbey wer, vest to ensai thee to s
micTimfu cariytag nrma, whrre they
were purdbening tobeoco, whe tbs
tharee drew Eheir pintola from Lhekr end
Ole-MOs aud ahos him. He go out of
the store, and teu deed to ue eroet
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to Texas On the way he spent Sam’s last run-in with the law.
absorbed in horse racing that Sher-
iff Egan told him he’d have to
choose between his horse and his
job. Sam chose the Denton Mare
and raced her from the Red River
to the Rio Grande. He won most
of his ‘matches. but usually the
stakes were small. In 1876, after
his racing had played out, Sam
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Soon after his death, relics of
Bass began to crop up in nearly
every town he had been near. If all
the "authentic" . Bass guns could
be gathered in one place, they
would stock an arsenal. Thickets
and caves in which he was said to
have hidden out became as numer-
ous as George Washington beds in
Virginia.
The most , persistent of all the
Bass legends were those of buried
gold. Some said a Denton saloon-
keeper buried six hundred dollars'
worth of Sam's double-eagles at a
spot within the town. Another said
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in which he himself was mortally iM Mrwc. rasstox Bass saO
wounded Much of his life lent it 2mA pocd,"uueDe0,
self to the making of a folk legend purvumi ana beingamatiern
Many who knew him looked on him su» and chtnue A« they atechel
as a cowboy who had gone wrong ) \M»r une totyN-, 5*
They saved his epithets'for the i££iiy
pal who betrayed him “ "" ‘ ------------•
Born at a farm home in South-
ern Indiana in 1851. Sam had lit
tie schooling Before he was 13 he
left home was left an orphan and
went to live at the home of a stern
and upright uncle. At 18. Sam be
came fed up with hard work and
restricted liberty He ran off to go
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world go bobbing around him, his seemed to have a quieting effect on
ghost was heard riding through the '
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away, killing his young half broth-
er and tearing off his mother's |
arm
Later Jesse was shot in the |
back by a man who was living in |
his home and posing as a friend '
The assassin was after a money.
reward. Instead, he attained in-!
famy in song and story as ' the j
dirty little coward.”
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The real Sam Bass was neither a , io, who came ton whuu Joma, came
hero nor a coldblooded killer like’wp’arteummaad tred meveral sheso,
• Wes Hardin. He never killed any- xaadonk of thee, Aad "hie
one unless it was—defensively— l "Timor"Mojorsomoo‛a mrn, all ho
in the final battle at Round Rock, hal here, whswirsomedstancedosn
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BATTLE WITH SAM BAsS.
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the most popular,” wrote Charley;
Siringo. This song, he recalled ■
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County, talk often turns to Sam _ , -
Bass, celebrated train robber and and Joel Collins went up the cattle
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HIS OBITUARY—The Galveston
News published this item about
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| In the late spring and most of i hoofbeats of a galloping horse. They
the summer, Bass and his men
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At Bob Carruth’s ranch, on Den
ton Creek 14 miles southwest of
town. Sam found cowboy life less
romantic than he had pictured it
in boyhood dreams. Although a
good rider and a hard worker he
drifted back to Denton the next
year to find a less rigorous job
‘ and more sociable surroundings.
For about a year and a half he
worked as a hostler for Mrs S. E
Lacy, the widow who kept the Lacy
House at the northcast comer of
the square.
Then, after a brief period, Sam
began working for Sheriff W F.
(Dad) Egan The sheriff had a
farm northwest of town in Denton |
he had a 12 acre place with a bam,
a truck garden and a bit of pasture.
As a hired man, Sam cared for
the horses, milked the family cow
and did other chores Sometimes he
cut firewood in the creek bottoms
south of town or plowed fields or
helped build fences on the Egan
farm
As Denton still lacked a railroad,
the enterprising sheriff wasn’t
averse to making some extra
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Not long after his death, cow- Naguingbaekaehe,loasot pependeneras.
boys on the plains were reading asgdaagkanagizuherzongvobtomuctycloo
paper back biographies of Bass and kidney tunciion u very important to good
were singing about him as they heaith.Whenzomrevenvdazcondition.ueh
watched their herds at night or funetiom soslgw down, many folks. ufkernaw-
pointed them up the trail. ‘Sam
Bass was the -hero of more young causeqettingupnightsorfreauentpamage
Texas cowboys than any other bad tiDnionggreozotrsipn,"Fipedomda
man, and the song about him was | diuretic. Used suceedafully by minion* tor ;
over SO years. It's amazin how many times
Doan's give happy relief from these discom-
f orts-help the 14 mile*of ktoneytuba* and 01-
ters Cush out waste. Get Donna Pins today! ,
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money in the freighting business
Often he sent Sam to Dalia* or
Sherman with a wagon and team j
for goods to be sold in Denton j
These trips made Sam well ac
quainted with the face of the North
Texas prairies He knew the wind
ing roads through the cross timbers
and could guide his team safely
. through the swamps of Elm Bottom
and the bursh along Hickory Creek.
He saw new towns, become fami-
liar with new faces and made :
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Fork and Hickory Creek were
frightened when tey heard the
brigand of the '70s.
He’s especially real in the thic-
kets along Hickory Creek and
among the hills and hollows of
Clear Creek and Little Elm. On '
windy nights, folks say they hear
the hoofbeats * of his galloping
horse. And, while looking for a
• atrayed calf, many a youth keeps j
an eye out for what might be a ;
hiding place for Sam's gold.
Texans have made a legendary j
figure of Sam Bass, just as Mis-1
sourians have done with Jesse |
James The two had much in com l
mon Both robbed trains inape-
riod in which the railroads were |
unpopular and grangers were at- J
tacking them for their high rates
Both were generous with their, stol-
en gold.
" Both also suffered from what ma-
ny people of their day viewed as
* rank injustice. Jesse James gain-
ed sympathy when the Pinkertons
bombed his home while he was
Sam got back to Texas, “all
right side-up, with care.” a* the
song says in the thickets ner
Denton he formed a new band that
held up two stagecoaches. Then, in
the spring of 1878, he robbed four
trains—at Allen, Hutchins, Eagle
Ford, and Mesquite. These bold
| actions, though they brought little
[gain, put on the trail of Bass a
| special company of Texas Rangers
jled by Capt. June Peak.
> In July, Bass and several others I knowing in what direction the
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For recreation, Sam liked the
scrub horse races held on a quar- ’
ter mile straightaway on the prai-
♦ rie turf north of Denton. On Sun
day afternoon* cowboys gathered 1
there to match their ponies, and
sometimes sprinters were brought
in from nearby counties in the
fall of 1874. Sain bought a fleet
pony of Steel Dust blood Tis
mount. soon known as the Denton
Mare, began winning many of the
races.
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merit of bravery and generosity. WaKE UD
while the name of Jim Murphy —K.Ik-
was continually splotched. In 1835 Ta Mafa AAmFarP
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termed him a "six-gun Judas.” Without Nagging Backache
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