Want To Join My Posse? Trivia Quiz

Answer: a fortune in gold

John William Reed was operating the mission as a bread and breakfast, accepting only gold in payment. The rumor was that the gold was hidden on the property. Lynch and his gang killed Reed, his pregnant wife, and all of the employees and guests. They never did find the gold. They were found by the posse and Lynch was executed by firing squad.

Answer: Sheriff William J. Brady

Billy the Kid, born William Henry McCarty, Jr., escaped before his execution. The stories vary on how this was accomplished, but most agree that Sheriff Pat Garrett killed him. One theory that differs is that Pat Garrett staged the killing to allow Billy the Kid, his friend, to escape.

Answer: Ned Christie

Ned Christie, NeDe WaDe in Cherokee, was accused by John Parris, who was arrested for the crime. Christie, though proclaiming his innocence, was arrested, but escaped prison before his trial. He eluded lawmen and built a fortified house now known as "Ned's Fort". In 1892 a posse dynamited his fort. He was killed while running toward the posse.

Dick Humphreys told authorities in 1918 that he had witnessed the murder of Maples by Bud Trainer.

Answer: dealing in illegal alcohol

It was Deputy Marshal John Phillips with a posse that found him at a dance, but Phillips was killed. Another posse was organized and found the outlaws. Deputy Wallace McNac, leaving nothing to chance, shot Barnett without warning.

Answer: Gunfight at Stone Corral

John Sontag, his brother his brother George Contant, and Chris Evans were successfully robbing the Southern Pacific Railroad.

George Contant was captured and imprisoned and Sontag and Evans went on the lam train. Marshal George Gard, Hiram Lee Rapelje, Fred Jackson, and Thomas Burns waited in ambush in a deserted hut for Sontag and Evans. When they eventually did come, one of the posse was spotted and a gunfight ensued. Sontag was wounded and died a couple of weeks later. Evans lost an eye and an arm and remained in prison until 1908.

Answer: William "Tulsa Jack" Blake

The Wild Bunch gang were responsible for many successful bank and train robberies. Blake was killed by Deputy Marshal Banks after being tracked to his hideout in Oklahoma. The gunfight lasted over forty-five minutes until Blake tried to flee and was shot.

Answer: James F. Martin

Approximately 300 unarmed Slav and German strikers marched to support the newly formed United Mine Workers Union. The marchers were ordered to disperse, but did not, and they were fired on. Many were wounded, and nineteen miners were killed - mostly shot in the back. The sheriff and his posse were brought to trial, but acquitted.

Answer: Bisbee, Arizona

The telephone and telegraph services were seized by the Phelps Dodge company to keep the news of the deportation from leaking. The deportees pleaded with President Wilson to be allowed to return to their homes. A committee was created to investigate and it found that "The deportation was wholly illegal and without authority in law, either State or Federal".

Answer: blood-stained file

They had been found guilty and sentenced. However, they killed Sheriff George White and Deputy L. A. Smith to escape the transport car. It was believed that the blood-stained file was used to cut off the handcuffs. A posse of over 200 men pursued the fugitives.

They were finally found and taken back to prison. Martinez was executed. Silvas, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, escaped again and was never found.

Answer: Frank Hamer

The posse consisted of Frank Hamer, B. M. "Manny" Gault, Bob Alcorn. Ted Hinton. Henderson Jordan and Prentiss Morel Oakley. The reports say that the ambush was baited with Henry Methvin's father and his truck. When the lawmen opened fire they shot approximately 130 rounds at the couple.