Born in Mobile, Alabama on March 1, 1849, Larn traveled to Colorado as a teenager where he found work as a ranch hand. However, after an argument with his boss over a horse around 1869, he shot and killed him. Soon he fled to New Mexico, where he killed a local sheriff who he thought was trailing him. Continuing on into to Texas, he settled in Fort Griffin, wherein 1871 he worked as a trail boss for a local rancher named Bill Hays. While on a cattle drive to Trinidad, Colorado, he allegedly killed two Mexicans and a sheepherder. Somewhere along the line, Larn married Mary Jane Matthews from the noted Matthews family and became a well-known citizen of Shackelford County.
Predatory government has been around since the first caveman declared himself chief.
ReplyDeleteBetween the bad guys and lawmen, you would think all the crooks in that part of Texas were done away with. Resume: Cattle rustler, deputy sheriff, stage coach robber, horse thief, sheriff, faro dealer, cattle rustler, and so forth.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he could’ve found a job working for Hedley Lamar.
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