Harvey Logan Research Paper

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Imagine living next door to a man who was wanted in multiple states and deadly. Well if you lived next to Kid Curry this is what you would be living with. Harvey Logan was a man who grew up to be a bank and train robber that was involved with guns and had multiple names. His two most famous names were Kid Curry and Harvey Logan. He also grew up to join multiple gangs. He was known as Kid Curry and the wildest of the wild bunch. This all started when he was a little cowboy born in Iowa in 1867. There is no specific date for his actual birth though. Harvey Logan was the third of six children. His father died just when he was just a young child. The mother moved the family to Dodson, Missouri with all the kids. After living there for …show more content…

He and some of his brothers were beating people up. In a result, they ended up with some bruises. This was his first of many incidents that would later occur. After that, he headed to southern Wyoming. The next year he and his brothers were staying a horse ranch in Montana. On October 2, 1894, Harvey and Johnnie Curry, along with their brother-in-law named Lee Self, got into a fight with a neighbor named James Ross. In a result of the fight, Harvey was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. This is when he began to be known as a bad guy. After that, harvey fell in love with a woman. Her father was not to excited about it. They started a gunfight and harvey came out on top with the last laugh. After that, Harvey left the state to go to New Mexico because people were searching for him. When he got to New Mexico he joined with the Black Jack Ketchum Gang. Curry and his brothers found out a friend of Landusky was at their rancher, so they went their and killed him. The bad news though, Johnnie Curry suffered from a gun wound. Later on, Harvey and another man part of the gang they got in an argument so he left the gang. Harvey retreated to Colorado and started a gang with some friends. Meanwhile Harvey was still getting into fights and killing people. Harvey went to South Dakota with his gang to rob a bank. He was shot in the wrist and went to jail with some other people from the …show more content…

Many human beings think that his most horrible crime was killing a shereff right after a train robbery. According to most people he robbed a bank with his gang. A sheriff named Ed Farr was thinking that the gang went to a place called Turkey Creek. It turned out that they were there. It resulted in a gunfight and the sheriff died. Although, so did some of the gang members. This was not the end of the brawl though. After this, the gang fled to New Mexico. When they got there was two sheriffs and there was another gunfight. Kid Curry ended up killing both. In total he killed three sheriffs and many people! This was by far his worst

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