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The Wild West is known mostly for its gunslingers and outlaws, but serial killers played a part, too.
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The Bender Family, aka the Bloody Benders, were a family of German immigrants who lived in Labette County, Kansas, for just one year, from 1871 to 1872. The family cabin had a well and a barn with a corral, and they divided the cabin into a general store and a small lodging home for travelers.
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By contemporary accounts, the people were mean, strange, or off-putting. In total, four Benders lived on the property: John Bender Sr. and his wife, Elvira, along with their son John Jr., and his girlfriend, Kate, who may have been his sister.
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The family is believed to have killed at least 11 people, and their remains were buried in the orchard.As people began to question the disappearances and close in on the Benders, the family vanished.
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While the Wild West was not as violent as movies and TV shows would have you believe, it wasn't some kind of lawless paradise. Dodge City, in Kansas, is the most notoriously violent town from that area.
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Dodge City had an annual recorded murder rate of 0.165, or 165 adults killed per 100,000 people. That also means that a person living in Dodge City from 1876 to 1885 had a 1 in 61 chance of being murdered.
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In 2020, the most violent city in the world, Los Cobos, Mexico, had a murder rate of 138 people killed per 100,000 people.
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For a brief period of time, you may have come across a wild camel or two while braving the plains of Texas.In 1855, the U.S. government allocated $30,000 to buy and import camels.
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Jefferson Davis, then the secretary of war, believed that camels would be essential in transporting goods westward (the transcontinental railroad was nowhere near complete in 1855). So the government imported 75 camels and stationed them in Campe Verde, located in central Texas, and used them in supply trips to San Antonio.
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But the mule lobby (Big Mule) lobbied against implementing the hunch-backed beasts into the army, and when the Civil War kicked off, the camel experiment was finished. After Texas seceded, the Confederate army seized Camp Verde and sent the camels packing into the wild.
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The California Gold Rush caused a mad dash to the hills, with mining camps and towns springing up around them. That meant a huge increase in demand for goods, which spiked prices — and led to egregious price gouging. It was more expensive to live in certain towns then than it is to live in Silicon Valley today.
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Here's how much you'd expect to spend in 1851 in Californian mining towns:
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- A single egg could cost as much as $3, the equivalent of $105 today. \n
- A pound of butter could cost $20, or about $700 today. \n
- Gold pans that once sold for $0.20 two years ago now went for $8, or $280 today. \n
- Shovels sold for $36, a whopping $1,259 today. \n
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And keep in mind that most miners only found $10 to $15 in gold each day.
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There were a number of famous outlaws in the Wild West, and many of them were murderous lowlives. One man, Charles Boles, stands out from the rest.Boles was a very successful (for a while) stagecoach robber who robbed 28 stagecoaches — all owned by Wells Fargo — between 1875 and 1883. He usually did this by wearing a flour sack (with holes cut for eyes), wearing a black derby hat, and holding a gun.
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Known to dress and speak well, Boles, who gave himself the alias \"Black Bart,\" would demand the driver to drop their lockbox while standing in the middle of the road. Once he ambushed a stagecoach and told his hidden crew to let loose a hail of gunfire if the stage driver shot. Seeing barrels pointing out from the bushes, the driver laid the box down, letting Boles abscond with the valuables.
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The \"men\" stayed behind. They were nothing more than sticks.
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But the greatest thing of all were his poems which he left behind for law enforcement to find. His most famous: \"I've labored long and hard for bread/For honor, and for riches/But on my corns too long you've tread/You fine-haired sons of *******.\"
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Boles was eventually caught, served six years in prison, then vanished.
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John Wesley Hardin was a man from Bonham, Texas, who started his life of gunfighting and murder early. At the age of 14, he stabbed a fellow student, nearly killing him. At 15, he gunned down his uncle's slave, then killed the three soldiers who pursued him.
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Hardin claimed to have killed 44 men in his autobiography, but it's full of tall tales and many of his claims are impossible to be corroborated. That's to be expected. But what's surprising is that Hardin is believed to have killed at least half that number, and possibly up to 30 men.
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Hardin's biography reads like he went from one murder to the next, which is somewhat accurate. While in Abilene, Kansas, he crossed paths with Wild Bill Hickok, who was serving as marshal at the time. For whatever reason, the two got along well enough. Either Hickok didn't know Hardin was wanted for murder in Texas, or he just didn't care.
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That changed when Hardin went to get some sleep on Aug. 6, 1871, but became agitated that the man in the neighboring hotel room wouldn't stop snoring. Hardin, who was drunk, fired into the next room. It's unclear whether or not he meant to kill the man, but the snoring stranger took one last gasp as the bullet pierced his heart. People would say that Hardin was \"so mean, he once shot a man for snoring too loud.\"
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Hardin ran from town and Hickok, and managed to evade capture until 1875, where Hardin was tried and convicted for the killing of a popular sheriff in Comanche, Texas. He was 21. Sentenced to 25 years, Hardin only served 17 years and was somehow pardoned after he was released in 1894.
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One year later, he was killed. A man he had an argument with earlier in the day shot him in the back of the head while Hardin was playing dice. Then he shot him a few more times just to be sure.
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You can see some of Hardin's personal artifacts at the Comanche County Museum.
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In poker, a poker hand consisting of two aces and eights is called a \"dead man's hand.\" That's because those were the cards Wild Bill Hickok was holding when Jack McCall shot him in the back of the head in the town of Deadwood.
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According to legend, both pairs were black suited, with spade aces and club eights.
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McCall was hanged for his crimes. As you can see, the trial was widely publicized.
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The chair that Hickok was murdered in can be seen at Saloon No. 10 in modern Deadwood.
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In the 1800s, women drinking in bars alongside men was extremely uncommon east of the Missouri River. But when you headed out west, further away from Puritan values, you'd find women mingling with the men.
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Some of these women would have been prostitutes, or \"painted ladies\" who might hang around dingy bars, looking for a john. Others would have been dance hall women, who were entertainers and hostesses. They would lighten the mod, sing, dance, and chat with the male patrons — and get them to drop some more coin at the bar.
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According to Legends of America, saloon girls could earn $10 per week ($205 in 1870) and earn a commission from the drinks they sold.
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While gambling was a male-dominated profession, women could gamble if the establishment allowed it.One such woman was Alice Ivers Tubbs, better known as \"Poker Alice.\"
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Alice was an English immigrant who studied under her first husband, learning how to gamble and play poker at various saloons. Educated, well-dressed, beautiful and with a penchant for smoking cigars, Alice must have stood out at the poker tables. She also carried a .38 revolver, and shot a miner in the arm after he threatened her future husband.
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Alice was born in 1851 and later in life, she opened her own saloon during Prohibition. She shot and killed a rampaging soldier who was destroying her saloon and was acquitted for acting in self-defense.
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Alice claimed to have won $250,000 in gambling, and died at the age of 79 in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Grab a modern biography about Poker Alice for your Old West travels, or stay in Poker Alice's house in Sturgis, South Dakota. It's on Airbnb!
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If you were transported to the Old West — and you were planted somewhere with a decent general store — you'd find some familiar brands. Like:
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- Quaker Oats \n
- Royal Baking Powder \n
- Baker's Chocolate \n
- Durkee \n
- Arm & Hammer \n
- Fleischmann's Yeast \n
- Pillsbury Flour \n
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Calamity Jane was a colorful Old West character who made up tons of stories about herself, and who may or may not have fought in skirmishes with Native Americans.
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We do know that Jane met Hickok on a wagon train heading to Deadwood. Once there, she became his acquaintance. Whether or not Hickok liked Jane is debated. Some said that Wild Bill \"had absolutely no use for Jane\" and decided to bury her body next to the deceased gunslinger as a practical joke.
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Others say it was her dying wish, or possibly a move on the part of local business owners who knew the duo would serve as an attraction, bringing in more business.
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They're buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood.
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