Some Early Curly...

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

...as well as some interesting Texas Ranger history.  http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/7/Tays.htm

"On May 20, Tays received word that an Indian raiding party had attacked the mail carrier six miles above Franklin. The lieutenant dispatched Sergeant Ryall and five men to scout in the locality of Canutillo. There they met Army Lieutenant B. I. Butler and a driver who had been attacked and wounded by bandits only a few minutes before. Ryall followed the highwaymen to the Mexican border. Mexican authorities intervened, placing three men under arrest and turning them over to the U.S. Army. In his report to Major Jones, Tays identified the men as "part of the Kenney [sic] band."[20] They included Robert Martin, a member of Jesse Evans' gang; a character named Buckskin Joe; and one called Curly Bill Breshnaham, better known to history as Curly Bill Brocius. Five months after the detachment had surrendered to the mob, it could finally boast its first success."

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Wasn't Curly the one before Shemp?

Never mind.

[litl rooster]

Wasn't Curly the one before Shemp?

Never mind.

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