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McCanles Gang
The supposed McCanles Gang or McCandless Gang was known as an outlaw gang in the early 1860s that was wanted for alleged train robbery, murder, bank robbery, cattle rustling, and horse theft. However, there are questions surrounding the veracity of not only the allegations, but the existence of any such gang. On July 12, 1861 some of its alleged members were killed by "Wild Bill" Hickok although many claimed they were innocent and their only crime was to cross paths with Hickok.〔("Wild Bill Hickok collection" ) at Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved February 14, 2015.〕
==McCanles incident background==
The legend of "Wild Bill" Hickok began, as reported in ''Harper's Monthly'', at Rock Creek Station, a stagecoach and Pony Express station in southern Nebraska, near present-day Fairbury, Nebraska. According to the story, Hickok single-handedly killed the nine members of "desperados, horse-thieves, murderers, and regular cutthroats" known as the McCanles Gang "in the greatest one man gunfight in history". During the battle Hickok, armed with only a pistol, a rifle, and bowie knife, suffered 11 bullet wounds, the story went.〔Sifakis, C. (1982) ''The Encyclopedia of American Crime.'' New York: Facts on File Inc.〕
However, the McCanles Gang legend seems to be traceable to an incident between "Duck Bill" Hickok, as he was then known, and a local rancher David Colbert McCanles, a former sheriff of Watauga County, North Carolina who was known as a local bully and had earlier had an argument with Hickok over the latter "stealing" his mistress Sarah (Kate) Shull. McCanles, who had recently sold his ranch to the Russell, Waddell and Majors freight company to be used as a relay station, arrived with his 12-year-old son, his cousin, and another employee at the ranch demanding to see the relay station manager Horace Wellman. McCanles had come to collect a long overdue instalment from the company, which was having financial difficulties at the time, and was arguing with Wellman when he was apparently shot by then 24-year-old stock tender Bill Hickok who was hiding behind a calico curtain. McCanles's son immediately rushed into the building, where he ran to his father. The two other men who, like McCanles, were unarmed, attempted to flee but Hickok threw the rifle he had shot McCanles with onto a bed and stepping from the cabin, wounded both with his pistols. The two men, James Woods and James Gordon, were then killed by other members of the relay station; one was killed by station employee J.W. (Doc) Brink with a shotgun blast and the other was hacked to death with a hoe, supposedly by Horace Wellman but there is evidence his wife had used the hoe. Hickok was not reported as wounded. During the attack McCanles' son (William) Monroe was able to escape via a dry creekbed.
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