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Vegas Badman9mNew F. Stanley BookTROY KEMPER Rudabaugh was on the policeDave Rudabaugh, Border force in Las Vegas, and in laterRuffian” a 200-page book Stanley, fillsLaswestern literature Up to now', Vegas' jail. He was convicted of scant notice has been given murdering A. L. Valdez, a Rudabaugh. deputy sheriff, on April 3,He w’as one of Las Vegas. 1880, and was sentenced toN. M ’s most noted desperados. hsn*?- hut an appeal to the and at varying periods in his Supreme Court, lifetime was on both sides of While the appeal was await* the law. He served on the law’s ing its turn for attention, Ruda-side both in New Mexico and baugh escaped jail late in 1881, Arizona, according to the au* and next turned up in Arizona.! thor, and was a contemporary where, the author says, he was! of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp identified as a lawman who Clay Allison, and others known helped in hunting down Wyatt for their dexterity with guns, Earp, w ho was wanted for the liquor, and cards. murder of Frank Stilwell.Stanley author of 18 books From Arizona, Rudabaugh, and 23 booklets on outlaws, jnfted into Mexico, and was p:oneers. and Southwestern given a job as manager of a towns, says most authorises ranch. He was accused of cattle; have kept Rudnaugh s name rustling and was fired. “Bitter witn that spelling, but that the at this turn of events,” Stanley name'also appears in records as recounts, Rudabaugh went to R i jabaugh,Rauieribaugh, Ra* parral, Chihuahua, entered a denbaugh, Rada baugh, Ruden- carJtina, and began abusing the baugh, and Redenbaugh. patrons.The ruffian was born in in «the ensuing gun fight heKansas m July, 1854. The killed two and wounded an-1 book s title is taken from Ruda- olher Morf, hf, wag klIled on!baugh s association with train c*uk iq18*6robbers, highwaymen, and out- , . , . . .laws who op-rated follow .ng Th book *,ws d'ulls *bou' the Civil War in the area called * Vegas in the years whenthe “border” along the Indian Rudabaugh lived there, and! country and unsettled territory.*makes mention of Billy the Kid.The author lists Rudabaugh’s Doc Holliday and other outlaws! lines of endeavor, in addition to of the p- riod. Several photo-tram robber, higiaw ayfnan and graphs are included in this, the outlaw, as express messenger, latest work by F. Stanley, a bartender, cowhand, manager,prolific writer and tireless reef a ranch, rustler, gambler, teerchcr into Southwestern his* j deputy, horse thief, and hang- tory, folklore, and old court-man. house and new’spaper records.
Newspaper Details
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sun, May 14, 1961
Page 36
Full Page
Clipped by
Kokomo-Howard C.
