Historic Knoxville News #12: Desperado Captured
Kid Curry was one of the most wanted criminals of the Wild West, a cohort of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. After participating in the Great Northern Train Robbery, he hid out in Knoxville until one evening he got into fisticuffs in a Bowery pool hall. Police arrived on the scene, and in the exchange of gunfire the bandit, whose real name was Harvey Logan, escaped from the police he wounded. Logan’s own wounds led to his identification and capture two days later.
Take a look at Harvey Logan in Knoxville by Sylvia Lynch. A fun book about some of the most famous desperadoes of the Wild West is Desperate Men: The James Gang and the Wild Bunch.
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