Richard "Little Dick" West
- Richard "Little Dick" West
Richard "Little Dick" West (1860 - 1898) was an outlaw of the Old West, and a member of Bill Doolin's Wild Bunch gang.
West was born in Texas, supposedly in 1860. He was working as a cowboy on the Halsell Ranch in Oklahoma Territory when he first met Doolin, in 1892. He was with the gang during a bank robbery in Southwest City, Missouri, which resulted in a gunfight in which West was wounded. He remained with the gang through 1896, when Doolin was killed by Deputy US Marshal Heck Thomas. Thomas, and Deputy Marshals Bill Tilghman and Chris Madsen systematically eliminated the gang over the course of the 1890's, leading to their nickname, the Three Guardsmen.
After the gang split apart, they were still being pursued by the lawmen. West helped to form the Jennings Gang, which made a number of bungled train robberies. After failing miserably, the gang split apart, and the other four members were captured and sentenced to jail in 1897, but West eluded capture. Deputy Marshal Madsen eventually tracked West to Guthrie, Oklahoma, where a shootout ensued, during which West was killed. He is buried there in the "Summit View Cemetery".
External links
* [http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-OutlawList-V-Z.html "Little Dick" West]
* [http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-OutlawList-D.html#William%20M.%20“Bill”%20Doolin,%20aka:%20Will%20Barry%20(1858-1896) Bill Doolin]
* [http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-OutlawGangsList3.html#Jennings%20Gang%20(1897) Jennings Gang]
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