b'DID YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD WEST.By Lee Anderson, Old West Living Historian, Award Winning Author, and Old School HorsemanLee Anderson and his horse, Concho, are well known around the state doing presentations in schools, corporate events, and civic events.Learn more about them and his book on his website. historicaloldwest.orgI n the 1800s the majority ofjail and lynched Heath from a telegraph pole at theC lay Allison, after sitting cowboy injuries and deathscorner of First and Toughnut Streets. in a dentists chair on both working ranches andinCheyenne,Wyoming, cattleO utlawBig Nose George Parrot, the leaderforcibly pulled one of drives were horse-related.of a gang of rustlers inWyoming. He wasthe dentists teeth when Most of the deaths on a cattlelynched in Rawlins,Montanaon 1881 and histhe doctor drilled on the drive were caused by eitherbody was given to Dr. John E. Osborne. Thewrong molar.He would stampedes or drowning.good doctor partially skinned the corpse andhave continued pulling There were 5 major rivers tomade a pair of shoes from the skin of Parrotsthe dentists teeth, but the cross on a trail drive north toinner thigh, a medicine bag out of his chest,screams of the dentist brought in the railheads. The drives tookand an ashtray out of the top of his skull. Thepeople from the street.place during the summerdoctor wore the shoes for his inauguration rainy season when the riversas governorI n America, the ran full. There were no bridges andofWyominginterm gang few cowboys could swim.1893. (Apparently,wasnt used to getting skinnedmean a group of D espite its reputation forby a politiciancriminals until violence,Tombstone,Arizonaonlyisnt anythingsometime around saw one lynching during its history.new.) Anyway,1870. It was first That was whenJohn Heathwas foundin the 1950s,used in the 1650s in reference to guilty of participating in the killingGeorges remainsa herd of animals. By 1823, it was of three men and a pregnant womanwere found in a whiskey barrel where theapplied to a pack of dishonest politicians.during a robbery in Bisbee, Arizonadoctors office used to stand. The thigh-and only sentenced to life in prison.skin shoes and the skull ashtray are onF rom the end of the Civil War until 1890, some Tombstone was mining town and it wasdisplay at the Carbon County Museum in10 million head of long horned cattle were a mob of angry miners that stormed theRawlins, Montana.driven north to the railheads from Texas. TRACTOR Used Tractors: Kubota, John Deere, New Holland, etc.New Tractors: Kioti & LSfrom 25 to 50 Horse Power.from UTVS to Car Haulers, Landscape and Dump Trailers, Special We Service & RepairOrders also available on New Trailers.Tractors, Trailers & UTVs.Grapple Buckets, Box Scrapers, Straight Blades, REBELRock Rakes, Chain Harrows, Arena Groomers, Brush NOWHogs, Post Hole Diggers, Post Drivers and More.AVAILABLE34 January 2020'