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Former Billings West and Carroll College running back Ryan Grosulak has signed with the Billings Outlaws. The 5-foot-10, 235-pound Grosulak, who impressed the Outlaws' staff at an open tryout last month, signed a contract last week and joined the team for the opening of training camp on Saturday. Grosulak ran for 19 touchdowns and a Class AA record 1,946 yards for Billings West in 2001. He then went on to be a three-year starter at Carroll, where he rushed for 3,583 yards and 38 touchdowns from 2004-06. He was part of the Saints' NAIA national champion teams in 2004 and '05 and earned NAIA All-America honors in 2005 and '06.
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James Hall on frontier outlaws James Hall, America's foremost early western writer once owned an interest in Shawneetown's newspaper and served as district attorney for the region. As an officer of the court he dealt with the outlaws face-to-face and even led one of the raids on the Sturdivant Gang. His writings on the Harpes, were the first to be compiled. This article from his Sketches of the West, provides an excellent introduction to the outlaws of the Cave-in-Rock country and beyond. He references the Harpes, Mason and the Sturdivants.
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One of the most famous outlaws of all time, Jesse James — the bank, train, and stagecoach robber — led his gang, which included his brother Frank, throughout the old West from 1866 to 1881. This life of Jesse James has been portrayed in over 30 films, but Warner Bros. is shifting the story line to have more of a comedic tone, in a Butch-Cassidy-and-the-Sundance-Kid sort of way.
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Capt. Young and the Exterminators Capt. Young of Mercer Co., Kentucky, led a band of vigilantes and bounty hunters which did their best to clean the outlaws from western Kentucky. They made it as far west as Cave-in-Rock. Although no battle between Young's men and the gang at Cave-in-Rock is recorded one likely took place during the early summer of 1799.
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Butch Cassidy and Matt Warner are just two in the long list of famous outlaws who found their home in Castle Country during the days of the "Wild West." In the late 1800s the "dirty dozen" and Cassidy's "wild bunch" made their homes in the plateaus of southeastern Utah and along the famous Green River.
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There is much legend surrounding the wild west when it comes to outlaws and lawmen. The odd thing is that on occasion, the two were interchangeable and a lawman might have been a bandit previously in another state. Here are some profiles of famous men of the west.
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