{"id":1548,"date":"2024-02-25T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/?page_id=1548"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:07:59","slug":"histories-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/?page_id=1548","title":{"rendered":"HISTORIES OUTLAWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deadwood Stage, was so frequently robbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most conspicuous highwaymen was William \u201cCurley\u201d Grimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A posse caught and killed him on Hogan\u2019s Ranch near present-day Sturgis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curley Grimes Grave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His headstone reads \u201cBuried with his head down\/just as he fell\/the whispering pines\/will never tell\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norman McCully\u2019s $3000 poke of gold stolen by a deserting soldier, near the historic\u00a0Burnt Ranch Ghost Town. The soldier was caught and put to work at a prison sawmill. Here he killed a fellow prison by pushing him into a buzz-saw and was immediately hanged. (Guidebook to the Black Hills: Lee Case)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woodcutting camp,\u00a0WOODVILLE\u00a0supplied fuel for the locomotives. It was also the scene of several attempts to rob the Homestake payroll train. On September 12, 1888, John Wilson, Jack Doherty, Alfred G. Nickersoan, and a man named Murphy ran into a good deal of trouble while making the attempt. (Black Hills Ghost Town: Parker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deadwood Stage, was so frequently robbed. One of the most conspicuous highwaymen was William \u201cCurley\u201d Grimes. A posse caught and killed him on Hogan\u2019s Ranch near present-day Sturgis. Curley Grimes Grave His headstone reads \u201cBuried with his head down\/just as he fell\/the whispering pines\/will never tell\u201d. Norman McCully\u2019s $3000 poke of gold stolen by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1548","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}