![]() ![]() Notable members that joined the gang were Arthur Morgan, Micah Bell, John Marston, Abigail Marston, Bill Williamson, and Javier Escuella. Dutch and Hosea later formed their own gang and began to operate in West Elizabeth. In the early days of his criminal life, Dutch had an “odd” partnership with Colm O’Driscoll, a fellow infamous outlaw and the leader of a gang, and at some point met and befriended Hosea Matthews, a con artist who tried to rob Dutch who likewise tried to do to do the same to Hosea. To attain these desires, Dutch began to resort to a life of crime. He valued liberties above all else and dreamed of living an independent existence. Dutch also mentions that he left his home when he was 15 years old because he rarely got along with his mother, whose death Dutch only found out several months after the fact from an uncle of his. Because of his father’s death, Dutch seems to have developed a grudge against Southerners. His father fought for the Union in the American Civil War and died at Gettysburg. My whole life, all I ever did was fight.”ĭutch was born in 1858. We can't fight change, we can't fight gravity, we can't fight nothin'. Fort of Cochinay in Tall Trees, West Elizabeth (c. ![]()
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