Harry Tracy | The Last of the Wild Bunch (Part 1)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Considered by some to be the last of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, Harry Tracy blasted his way out of prison in the summer of 1902. What followed was one of the most desperate man hunts in all of U.S. history. Over the course of the next two months, Tracy would lead hundreds of lawmen, including the National Guard, on a deadly game of chase that would see at least 7 men gunned down. According to the papers of his time, “In all of the criminal lore of the country, there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation, and a thirst for crime. Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday School teacher.” But who was the real Harry Tracy? Where’d he come from? What started him on a life of crime? And did he really ride with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ The Saga of the Outlaw Harry Tracy by James Nystrom - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1456373501?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=1456373501&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	By the dawn of the 20th century, the quote unquote Wild West was, for the most part,
0:35.3	a fading memory. Billy the Kid, Wild Billy Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin
0:39.7	were all six feet under. The Buffalo were gone, the indigenous on reservation, and the once-fast
0:45.6	prairie now overrun by civilization. The frontier for all intents and purposes had finally
0:51.5	been tamed, but I guess no one bothered to tell Harry Tracy.
0:56.1	Considered by some to be the last of Bush Cassidy's Wild Bunch, Tracy blasted his way out of prison
1:01.1	in the summer in 1902. And what followed was one of the most desperate manhunts in all of U.S.
1:06.6	history. Over the course of the next two months, this Old West throwback would lead over a thousand
1:11.7	lawmen, including the National Guard, on a deadly game of chase that would see at least seven men
1:17.1	gunned down. According to the papers of his time, in all the criminal lore of the country,
1:22.1	there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation, and the
1:27.3	thirst for crime.
1:28.8	Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday school teacher.
1:32.6	But who was the real Harry Tracy?
1:34.9	Where'd he come from?
1:36.1	What started him on a life of crime?
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