Big Jake
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:02:01
In the Arizona Territory
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another team,
the Arizona Rangers

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were busy just trying
to keep the peace.

:02:07
Anna Pavlova, prima ballerina
of the Russian ballet,

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was dancing Swan Lake.
:02:14
The dance hall girl in the
Klondike gold rush saloon

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was somewhat different.
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By 1909, still photographs
had come to life.

:02:23
Motion pictures had been born
with The Great Train Robbery.

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While that make-believe drama
was on the movie screens

:02:34
nine men crossed the Rio Bravo
into Texas.

:02:43
The turbulent years
between the Civil War

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and the turn of the century
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brought out the best
in some people

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but in others,
it brought out the worst.

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Example: O'Brien,
a half-breed Apache

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born of a Chiricahua mother
and Irish father.

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A professional gunfighter...
one of the last of his kind.

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Pop Dawson...
rode with the James boys

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in Kansas and Missouri.
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Said to have murdered
more than a dozen men...

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one for as little
as seven dollars.

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Trooper... name unknown.
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A back-shooter.
Considered a coward.

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Reputed to have been
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a cavalry soldier
sometime in the past

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but not to the personal
knowledge of his confederates.

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William Fain,
younger of the Fain brothers.

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Favors a shotgun... a Greener...
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for its bloody killing effect
at short range.

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James William Duffy.
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At age 14, killed his first man
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who was an admirer
of his prostitute mother.

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Dead shot with a rifle.
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William Devries... young Billy.
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Not quite 21.
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This raid was thought
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to have been
his first outlaw act.

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Walt Devries, his older brother
by 20 years.

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He looks
more like an Iowa farmer

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than a professional killer.
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John Goodfellow...
may be the worst of them.

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An indiscriminate killer.
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Women, children,
no consequence at all.

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Prefers to work close.
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Favors a razor-edged machete.

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