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, cattle drives were horse- O utlaw Big Nose George Parrot was theforcibly pulled one of related. Most of the deathsleader of a gang of rustlers in Wyoming.the dentists teeth when on a cattle drive were causedHe was lynched in Rawlins,Montanaonthe doctor drilled on by either stampedes or1881 and his body was given to Dr. John E.the wrong molar.He drowning. There were 5Osborne. The good doctor partially skinnedwould have continued major rivers to cross onthe corpse and made a pair of shoes from thepulling the dentists a trail drive north to theskin of Parrots inner thigh, a medicine bagteeth, but the screams of the railheads. The drives tookout of his chest, and an ashtray out of the topdentist brought in people from place during the summerof his skull. The doctor wore the shoes forthe street.rainy season when the rivershis inauguration ran full. There were no bridges andas governorI n America, the few cowboys could swim.ofWyominginterm gang 1893. (Apparently,wasnt used to mean D espite its reputation forgetting skinneda group of criminals violence,Tombstone,Arizonaonlyby a politicianuntil sometime saw one lynching during its history.isnt anythingaround 1870. It was That was whenJohn Heathwas foundnew.) Anyway,first used in the 1650s in reference guilty of participating in the killingin the 1950s,to a herd of animals. By 1823, it was of three men and a pregnant womanGeorges remains were found in a whiskeyapplied to a pack of dishonest politicians.during a robbery in Bisbee, Arizonabarrel where the doctors office used to and only sentenced to life in prison.stand. The thigh-skin shoes and the skullF rom the end of the Civil War until 1890, some Tombstone was mining town and it wasashtray are on display at the Carbon10 million head of long horned cattle were a mob of angry miners that stormed theCounty Museum in Rawlins, Montana.driven north to the railheads from Texas. IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU ?ARE YOU ON TRACK FINANCIALLY ?ARE YOU INVESTED CORRECTLY ?IM A NATIVE ARIZONAN WITH 36 YEARS OF FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ADVISORY EXPERIENCE. PROUD TO OFFER CALL FOR A FREE, NO OBLIGATION PORTFOLIO REVIEW DANIEL LEE LINDBLADCLU, ChFC Financial Adviser* 623-583-5940THE LINDBLAD FINANCIAL GROUP10225 WEST THUNDERBIRD BLVD MENTION THIS ADSUITE B, SUN CITY, AZ 85351LINDBLADFINANCIAL.COM* CA Insurance License #OB35938. Registered Representative offering securities through NYLIFE Securities LLC member FINRA/SIPC, A Licensed Insurance Agency, 2355 E. Camelback Road, Suite750 Phoenix, AZ 85016, 480-840-2000, Financial Adviser offering investment advisory services through Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser. Lindblad Financial Group is not owned or operated by Eagle Strategies LLC. or its affiliates. ArizonaRealCountry.com November 2023 9'