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    Thomas William Sweeny (December 25, 1820 – April 10, 1892) was an Irish-American soldier who served in the Mexican–American War, the Yuma War, and as...
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  • golfer and socialite, brother of Charles Francis Sweeny and nephew of Charles Sweeny Thomas William Sweeny (1820–1892), Irish-American Union Army general...
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    forces against Lyon's main column. When Lyon was killed and General Thomas William Sweeny wounded, Major Samuel D. Sturgis assumed command of the Union forces...
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    Buffalo Bill (redirect from William Cody)
    William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most...
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    the man whom Texas Ranger Thomas Mode shot in the right ear. Modern researchers have linked Brocius with a man known as William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham,...
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    ISBN 978-0-300-24526-4. S2CID 166826195. "Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1 ..." founders.archives.gov. Retrieved...
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    Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter...
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    Zephaniah Kingsley Seth Kinman Octaviano Larrazolo Nat Love Sylvester Mowry Emperor Norton Annie Oakley Sedona Schnebly Thomas William Sweeny Peter Lebeck...
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  • John Billee (1873–1890) William "Tulsa Jack" Blake (c.1859–1895) Thomas Hamilton Blanek (1861–1895) Dan Bogan (1860–??) William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney...
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    Zephaniah Kingsley Seth Kinman Octaviano Larrazolo Nat Love Sylvester Mowry Emperor Norton Annie Oakley Sedona Schnebly Thomas William Sweeny Peter Lebeck...
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    S2CID 165279197. "Taylor, William". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. 2024. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Taylor, William (1895). Ridpath, John (ed...
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    in 1905 by President Theodore Roosevelt and again in 1909 by President William Howard Taft. When appointed sheriff, one of Bullock's first duties was...
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    government's occupying forces in the South.: 64–67  Susan McKey Thomas, the daughter of Doc's uncle Thomas S. McKey, said her father told her: "They rode in on the...
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    Arkansas. His family were slaves belonging to Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves. During the American Civil War, his owners fought for the...
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    authorities in Miles City, Montana, and sentenced to 18 months in jail by Judge William L. Maginnis. He adopted the nickname Sundance Kid during this time in jail...
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    William Clark and the Shaping of the West. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0809030415. Miller, Robert J. (2006). Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas...
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    film Tall Tale. "Pecos Bill" was also the nickname of Civil War general William Shafter, although this was before O'Reilly created the legend. Shafter...
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    reminiscences associated with the same (Skyhorse Publishing, 2014) Sanford, William R. The Chisholm Trail in American history (2000) online Library resources...
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    that 1815 could be the year of his birth. However, Norton's biographer, William Drury, points out that "about 65" was based solely on the guess that Norton's...
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    Zephaniah Kingsley Seth Kinman Octaviano Larrazolo Nat Love Sylvester Mowry Emperor Norton Annie Oakley Sedona Schnebly Thomas William Sweeny Peter Lebeck...
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    to trade for a fur robe they wished to bring back to give to President Thomas Jefferson. Clark's journal entry for November 20, 1805, reads: one of the...
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    gang was led by Bill Doolin and William Marion "Bill" Dalton; it included the following men at various times: William "Tulsa Jack" Blake, Dan "Dynamite...
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  • attribute Crazy Horse's death to a soldier at the guardhouse. The author Thomas Powers cites various witnesses who said Crazy Horse was fatally wounded...
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    William "News" Carver (September 12, 1868 – April 2, 1901) was an American outlaw and a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch during the closing years...
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    William Harrison Clanton (1862 – October 26, 1881) was an outlaw Cowboy in Cochise County, Arizona Territory. He, along with his father Newman Clanton...
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    Thomas Coleman Younger (January 15, 1844 – March 21, 1916) was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw leader...
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    confronted gunfighter "Buckskin" Frank Leslie and was killed. As a young man, William Claiborne worked as a cowhand and remuda rider for John Slaughter and helped...
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    Love, Nat; Los Angeles, California; (1907); [Summary & Review by Harry Thomas]; Documents South collection; Nat Love; University of North Carolina at...
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    in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of committing atrocities...
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    Zephaniah Kingsley Seth Kinman Octaviano Larrazolo Nat Love Sylvester Mowry Emperor Norton Annie Oakley Sedona Schnebly Thomas William Sweeny Peter Lebeck...
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