VIGILANTES Ep. 1 | “Baldknobbers: Frontier Justice”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1883 in Taney County, Missouri, a murder case ends with an apparent lack of justice, and Nathaniel Kinney decides to take matters into his own hands. He forms a vigilance committee – nicknamed the Baldknobbers – whose goal is to punish criminals who escape the law. The vigilantes strike their first blow, but their seemingly righteous mission quickly turns to a campaign of harassment that spreads fear throughout Taney County. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.2	Taney County, Missouri.
0:53.9	The message told him two fugitives wanted
0:56.4	to surrender. The fugitives, brothers Frank and Tubal Taylor, had been hiding in the woods nearby.
1:03.6	In return for turning themselves in, the tailors wanted McCaffey to promise to protect them
1:08.4	from vigilantes who were hunting them. After receiving
1:12.3	assurances, the tailors allowed deputies to take them into custody, and Sheriff McCaffey locked them up
1:18.5	in the county jail. At about 10 o'clock that night, between 75 and 100 armed vigilantes
1:26.3	rode into the city of Forsyth, where the jail was located.
1:30.9	Using sledgehammers, the men battered down the door to the jail and broke into the cell that
1:36.1	was holding the tailors. The brothers begged for their lives as the vigilantes dragged them away.
1:42.9	The next morning, roughly two and a half miles outside of town,
1:47.1	a deputy and a friend discovered the bodies of the Taylor brothers.
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