The first experience of the Enterprise man…
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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.