January 1, 1870 - Roy Daugherty
A minor but enduring figure in the outlaw culture of the late nineteenth-century American West, Daugherty outlasted every other member of the Wild Bunch — a distinction that says something about both his luck and his era's violent attrition. His trajectory from a preacher's household in Missouri to a cattle-country gang is a compact illustration of how the frontier absorbed and shaped young men with few other prospects. The Battle of Ingalls, where he was captured, remains one of the more documented confrontations between federal marshals and organized outlaws of the period.
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Roy Daugherty, also known as Arkansas Tom Jones, (1870 – August 16, 1924) was an American outlaw of the Old West, and a member of the Wild Bunch gang, led by Bill Doolin. He was the longest-lived, as well as the last surviving member of the gang.
Born into a staunchly religious family in Missouri, his two brothers became preachers. However, Daugherty rebelled and left Missouri for Oklahoma Territory at only 14 years of age. He called himself "Arkansas Tom Jones", claiming to have been from there. For several years, he worked as a cowboy, which was how he met Bill Doolin. He joined Doolin's gang around 1892. He was involved in several robberies, but was one of the first of the gang to fall, being captured after the Battle of Ingalls, in Ingalls, Oklahoma on September 1, 1893.
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