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Sep 11, 2022 · Sadly, a fire destroyed the hotel, Billy Crapo’s cabin next door, and presumably that poster in June 2020. Illinois-born William Crapo was an 18 year old farmer in Saratoga County, NY at the start of the Civil War and he enlisted as a Private in Company G of the 21st New York Infantry in October 1861. He was wounded in the thigh at Antietam ...
- Antietam
Crapo is one of the oldest residents at Cerro Gordo; he is a...
- Battlefield
William Whitney Farmer, 34, of Wakeman, Ohio enlisted as a...
- Archive
Billy Crapo at Cerra Gordo (1893) (quickPost/Pix)...
- AotW Website
Almost exactly 20 years ago Carolyn Ivanoff shared with me...
- The History
Here’s Lieutenant Edward A. Marye‘s (probably pronounced...
- Antietam
Crapo is one of the oldest residents at Cerro Gordo; he is a well educated man, by profession a civil engineer, but for many years engaged in mining. He is a native of Illinois, aged about 47 years. When the report reached here Sheriff Gorman at once telegraphed a posse at Keeler to go to Cerro Gordo, nine miles distant, and arrest Crapo.
Crapo is one of the oldest residents at Cerro Gordo; he is a well educated man, by profession a civil engineer, but for many years engaged in mining. He is a native of Illinois, aged about 47 years. When the report reached here Sheriff Gorman at once telegraphed a posse at Keeler to go to Cerro Gordo, nine miles distant, and arrest Crapo ...
The Crapo House: William "Billy" Crapo was one of the oldest residents of Cerro Gordo. In December of 1892 there was an election that he was not happy with and in January 1893 he stepped out his front door and took aim at the back of the Postmaster Harry Boland and a friend, John Thomas, killing Mr. Boland instantly.
May 3, 2017 · Crapo killed Henry Boland and wounded John Thomas December 29, 1892 as they walked past his cabin, reputedly hurling epithets in his direction. This marked the last known murder in Cerro Gordo. Crapo disappeared and was never captured, even though the governor issued a $500 reward.
Jun 21, 2020 · The site of the Cerro Gordo fire is shown Wednesday, two days after the American Hotel, an icehouse and the home of notorious killer Billy Crapo burned. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The Yellow Road winds up the Inyo Mountains to the town Cerro Gordo where a Monday morning fire burned down the hotel, icehouse and home of the notorious killer Billy Crapo, photographed on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 in Cerro Gordo, Calif. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
