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The Northwest Outlaw They Couldn’t Capture

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

The Northwest Outlaw They Couldn’t Capture

Season 4 Episode 4 | 7m 5s | CC

This guy was the last of the old West style outlaws in the Northwest, broke out of prison, shot guards, sheriffs and accomplices and was subject of the region’s greatest manhunt. He was finally found working on a ranch in eastern Washington and died in a shootout there with a local posse.

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The Palouse Cowboy who Invented John Wayne

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The True History of the “Seattle Freeze”

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Japanese Castaways in the Northwest

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