Old west grave markers

Kent Shootwell · May 31, 2010, 10:55:07 AM

I'd like to share a photo I made last spring while in Wyoming. This is one of two fellows that was on the trail of some robbers and they got bushwhacked. Later Dutch Charly then Big Nose Goerge each got linched for the deed. Many have seen the four shoots from a fourty four tomestone, I've seen it in three differant towns, Maybe others have a photo of real graves from their travels.

Shotgun Franklin · May 31, 2010, 04:40:34 PM

Hmmmm, that might be a good reason to go to San Antonio one weekend soon.

Mogorilla · June 10, 2010, 06:55:17 AM

I don't have a picture, but the Younger brothers are buried in Lee's Summit Missouri, just a few miles from my house. I will try and remember to snap a picture or two one of these days.

Kent Shootwell · June 10, 2010, 05:23:45 PM

That would be dandy! I found another fellow that was drug to death by his horse but like you didn't have my Kodak handy. Maybe come hunting season I'll get that one.

shrapnel · July 05, 2010, 11:49:58 PM

Not quite a grave marker, but a historic marker none-the-less. This is the marker showing where John Bozeman was killed by Indians near the Yelklowstone River in 1865. The buttstock is a model 1892 with a stamp in the stock from "Montana Armory" a sporting goods store in Bozeman from 1884 to 1914...

Shotgun Franklin · July 06, 2010, 05:00:04 PM

Down the road is, or was, an old cemetery with grave stones dating back to the 1870s. One grave had a piece of rotted off board sticking up. Just a few inches of old board. I kinda felt bad about it but then a guy decided that the cemetery belonged to him. He fenced it in and bulldozed away most of the headstones and markers. The local authorities wouldn't do squat. It's been over a year and I'm still hot about it.

Rube Burrows · July 10, 2010, 08:23:52 AM

Well.....not old west but this is the grave of Rube Burrows, Alabama's most infamous train robber. Part of my grandmas land was owned by him many moons ago.

People still chip away at the gravestone as you can see

Rube in his coffin

Russ T Chambers · July 10, 2010, 11:27:12 AM

By the way Rube, just so you know!! You may want to think about the fact that you've been darnn dead for mor'en 120years!!! (Couldn't resist that one!) At least you know where your roots are! (Another one I couldn't help)

Rube Burrows · July 10, 2010, 01:32:35 PM

Quote from: Russ T Chambers on July 10, 2010, 11:27:12 AM
By the way Rube, just so you know!! You may want to think about the fact that you've been darnn dead for mor'en 120years!!! (Couldn't resist that one!) At least you know where your roots are! (Another one I couldn't help)

buffalo eater · July 10, 2010, 08:54:08 PM

For a guy dead 120 years he don't look too bad.

Rube Burrows · July 11, 2010, 09:26:01 AM

Quote from: buffalo eater on July 10, 2010, 08:54:08 PM
For a guy dead 120 years he don't look too bad.

Dont feel too bad either.

Wolfsburg · July 15, 2010, 01:03:03 PM

Quote from: Shotgun Franklin on July 06, 2010, 05:00:04 PM
Down the road is, or was, an old cemetery with grave stones dating back to the 1870s. One grave had a piece of rotted off board sticking up. Just a few inches of old board. I kinda felt bad about it but then a guy decided that the cemetery belonged to him. He fenced it in and bulldozed away most of the headstones and markers. The local authorities wouldn't do squat. It's been over a year and I'm still hot about it.

I would be too! I can't even imagine the kind of person that would do that. It's amazing the authorities didn't do anything.

Sir Charles deMouton-Black · July 15, 2010, 04:40:51 PM

Rube Burrows; (NOT the deceased!

)

That photo of the deceased would make an unusual, but interesting Avatar photo for you.

Rube Burrows · July 19, 2010, 08:54:03 PM

Quote from: Sir Charles deMouton-Black on July 15, 2010, 04:40:51 PM
Rube Burrows; (NOT the deceased! )

That photo of the deceased would make an unusual, but interesting Avatar photo for you.

It sure would......I may use that.

dangerranger · July 20, 2010, 02:53:47 AM

I just live a couple miles from the daulton family cemetary. Ill have to rember to take a camera next time I go over. theres also millitary graves from the 1850s here. evidently there was an indian uprising here about that time. I dont know for shure but they may have been a part of the bufalo soldiers sent to protect yosemite valley from the gold prospecters. DR

GunClick Rick · July 20, 2010, 06:28:52 PM

That's Dalton,i know,i married one and yes they are meaner than a sunburned rattlesnake with a blistered belly.My real last name is Sontag,Rick Sontag had to shorten it so folks would not know who we really were.

Believe it or not!

Shotgun Franklin · July 20, 2010, 07:44:49 PM

There weren't Buffalo Soldiers before the War of Northern Aggression.

Short Knife Johnson · August 16, 2010, 11:39:57 PM

Quote from: Rube Burrows on July 10, 2010, 08:23:52 AM

Rube in his coffin

Is that an 1889 Marlin?

Rube Burrows · August 16, 2010, 11:42:02 PM

Quote from: Short Knife Johnson on August 16, 2010, 11:39:57 PM
Is that an 1889 Marlin?

It a Marlin 1888. The 1889 was the first year that they had the side eject. This one is still a top eject.

Short Knife Johnson · August 17, 2010, 08:27:40 AM

I hope they didn't bury it with him.

Those are slick little rifles. I never knew they even exsisted until a friend of mine showed me one not a week ago.

Guess Mr. Burrows didn't have much of a chance to wear his out.