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Biography. His real name was Harry Severns. Tracy is said to have run with Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang, but there is no evidence to this claim. [citation needed] By the time he had reached adulthood, he was actively taking part in acts of robbery and theft. On March 1, 1898, Tracy and three accomplices engaged in a gunfight at ...
In 1892, there lived in the town of Vancouver, Washington, two fifteen-year-old boys, named Harry Tracy and David Merrill. Tracy’s conduct was exemplary until he met Merrill, but immediately afterward a change occurred and step-by-step he waded into crime until his deeds were the talk of the continent. At the outset, Merrill seemed to possess ...
Harry Tracy was an Old West Outlaw who committed crimes in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and Washington. He was born in Wisconsin in about 1874, and his real name was Harry Severns. At a young age, he ran away from home, landing in Chicago, Illinois, where he worked in the stockyards. Later, he migrated to Colorado, where he labored in the goldfields ...
Jul 9, 2015 · After murdering an estimated 25 men (mostly law officers), committing at least 43 robberies, 12 or more one-on-one hold ups and making at least six jail breaks Harry Tracy, the last gunfighter of the Old West, was dead at age 27. His lifeless body was publically displayed (just like Jesse James, the Daltons and other gunmen of the era), there ...
Dec 25, 2020 · Harry Tracy was a bad man. He was a Northwest outlaw, and a manhunt for him spawned sensational national headlines and thrilling dime novels. To some, he was “King of the Bandits”; to others ...
1898 -Tracy commits his first known murder — a posseman in Brown’s Park, CO (in today’s Moffat County) 1898 -He is finally captured and escapes after 2 weeks at the Routt County Jail in Hahns Peak, CO by beating the Sheriff and locking him in a cell. 1898 -Recaptured the next day near Steamboat Springs, CO, he is sent to the Pitkin County ...
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Mar 5, 2003 · On August 6, 1902, Harry Tracy (1877-1902) takes his own life rather than surrender to authorities, after being wounded in a gun battle in a Lincoln County wheat field. Beginning with his escape from the Oregon State Penitentiary on June 9, 1902, Tracy killed six men throughout the Northwest, and in the process became known as one of the last ...
