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The Complete Bulldog (Richmond, Virginia, 1956) The New Complete Bulldog (New York, 1966, 1973) Bill Doolin, Outlaw O.T. (Norman, 1968, 1980) Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy (Norman, 1977)
International Standard Book Number: 0-8061-1652-8
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-15673
Copyright 1968 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition, 1968. First paperback printing, 1980.
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TO STEVEN MARK HANES My Number Two Grandson
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Introduction
BY RAMON F. ADAMS
Bill Doolin was one of the most active outlaws in Oklahoma Territory and was known as "King of Oklahoma Outlaws." Yet until now there has never been a complete biography written about him.
True, many books and magazine articles have given scattered accounts of him, most of them unreliable. For instance, some reports have him dying of brain fever, but buckshot wounds are not a symptom of brain fever. Some have him killed in the daytime, but the event took place between eight and nine o'clock at night. Some have him killed from ambush when he went to keep an rendezvous with his wife, but when he was killed he had already been reunited with her and had loaded their scant household goods onto a wagon for a move to a new life. Most writers have him killed by Heck Thomas, but Thomas had a Winchester, and Doolin was killed with a shotgun.
One writer who has Doolin dying a natural death states: "They propped the dead body up against a tree and shot him full of holes. Took the body to Stillwater and had it photographed.... Noticed that he had not bled.... Everything was quieted downthe reward paid." Some said that Doolin's father-in-law did this deed to collect the reward for his daughter, but his father-in-law was a minister and a Christian man.
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Besides, Doolin and his wife were devoted to each other, and Mrs. Doolin would never have allowed such a thing.
At the time of his death Doolin had risked capture to move his family to a faraway place where he could make a new start. He had told his wife that he was tired of outlaw life and of always being on the run and separated from his family. One wonders what kind of citizen he would have made if he had not been killed before he had a chance at a new start.
His short stay at Burden, Kansas, where he lived quietly with his family for a short time before he was captured at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was the first peace he had known since his marriage, and he relished it. Suffering from arthritis and longing to live quietly with his family, he gave much thought to reforming and settling down. His friend Oscar Halsell urged him to surrender and stand trial, but Doolin knew that there were too many charges against him and that he was charged in the killing of three marshals at Ingalls, though Arkansas Tom had also been charged with the killings and had been convicted of shooting Marshal Hueston. Doolin told his wife that he had never knowingly killed a man.
Bill's father, Mack Doolin, was an Arkansas farmer with practically no education. Bill had no opportunity for education either, but he possessed an engaging personality, and in his young manhood he was a quiet fellow who avoided quarrels and, in spite of temptations, was not given to the heavy drinking so common among his companions. Because he was a farm boy and, unlike most cowboys, could use an ax, he was hired by rancher Oscar D. Halsell to help build a new ranch
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headquarters. After it was complete, Doolin worked to become an expert cowboy. Halsell was very fond of Bill and taught him to read and write well enough to keep a simple set of ranch books. Bill proved to be thoroughly honest and reliable, so much so that he was trusted to manage the ranch when Halsell was away.
Unfortunately, most of Halsell's other employees turned out to be outlaws in their spare time. From the Halsell ranch came most of the outlaws who rode with the Daltons and later with Doolin. Somewhere along the line Doolin's association with them won him over to "ridin' the high lines." It is my opinion that Doolin was a product of his time and environment and that under more favorable conditions he would not have followed the dim trails.
If his effort to move his family that fatal night had been successful, Doolin would probably have gone to New Mexico, where he had visited several times earlier. On one trip he had become acquainted with Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the noted writer. On one occasion, when Rhodes was trying to break a horse for him, Doolin shot the horse to keep the bronc from stomping Rhodes to death. After this incident each man felt that he had found a friend in the other. Later, in his novel
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