The first experience of the Enterprise man…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

rmerly of the James gang), Big Dave, Kid Lewis, Red Samples, Billy Delaney, Texas Harwood, Kid Vance, Two-Belt Johnny, Mormon Bill, Mexican Johnny, Shoot- em-up Dick, Ike Clanton, Cherokee Kid, Sisto Garcia, and Pilar, who afterwards killed Deputy Sheriff Hall near this city. These with their pals, in all numbering from seventy-five to one hundred men, held the country in a state of abject terror, and it was worth a man’s life to dispute their lordly sway in the slightest degree. and supplying them with arms and ammunition from the company store. The first experience of the Enterprise man with them was at Guthrie station, then the grading camp on the Clifton railroad. The scribe had tied his white pony to a wagon, and laid himself down to pleasant slumbers on his saddle blanket beneath the wagon. The wagon was within a few feet of a tent saloon and along in the night he was awakened by the remark; “Well Bill, if we don’t go through him some one else will.” Bill replied, “Well, we’ll take a drink and then attend to the business.” The Enterprise man thought they were getting personal in their remarks, and while they were drinking, pulled his blanket back about twenty feet, and when the boys were ready for “business” they discovered that their intended victim was on to their game.