Pahrump Valley Gazette, Thursday, June i2, 1997 2,3
Gazette on the street...
Why would you like to see a CCSN
learning center here in Pahrump?
Sandy Valley
BOB CRIPE-- Retiredmechanic
-- "To encourage education
because some people would by-
pass !t, if they had to drive into Las
Vegas."
Pahrump
ROY MANKINS -- Insurance
sales-- "So my kids wouldn't have
to leave town to get an education.
I have two kids in college in town
and traveling is difficult for them.
I would like to take classes too."
Pahrump
GEORGE MaeKENDER --
Retired sales -- "I think it is a
growing area. I'm high on
education and it would add to the
community."
Pahrump
GARY JACOBS--Auto sales
-- "We have a lot of people here
in Pahrump who go to college
and travel that road everyday.
Some have moved to Vegas to
eliminate the drive."
Pahrump
HADLEY KOPP -- Retired
business owner -- "I think it
would be a great benefit to
Pahrump. I would like to take
classes."
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Nevaaz00 -
then now
National Outlaw and Lawman Association
by Phillip I. Earl
Nevada Historical Society
n July 1985, I attended the annual rendezvous of the National Associa-
tion for Outlaw and Lawman History, NOLA, which was meeting in
Sparks. At that time, I spoke on Nevada's outlaw and lawman tradition.
Two years later, I became a member of the
board of directors and continue in that posi- '
tion.
When first contacted about speaking, I was reluc-
tant. Nevada has no outlaw tradition which in any
way compares with that of Arizona, New Mexico,
Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma,
Texas or Arkansas. Billy the Kid was never here.
Nor were the James gang, the Youngers or the
Daltons. Gunmen the likes of Clay Allison, Ben
Thompson, John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill
Longley were never here, nor were there bank heists
on the scale of those in Northfield, Minn. or
Coffeeville, Kan.
Nevertheless, I agreed t 9 speak, covering the
Verdi Train Robbery in November t870, the first in
the West, the last stagecffach robbery at Jarbidge in
December 1916, and:several lynchings, including
those of Adam Uber 'in Genoa in December of 1897,
and William "Red" Wood at Hazen in February
1905. I also mentioned Butch Cassidy's reputed
involvement in a bank robbery in Winnemucca in
September 1900.
Thos# present seemed to be pleased with the
opening up of this new territory and I have pursued
research on Nevada's part in this aspect of the his-
tory of the American West since that time. The
Quarterly Journal of the National Outlaw and Law-
man Association has published two of my articles, one on the life and times of
Morgan Courtney, a thoroughly bad man0who died in a gunfight in Pioche in
1873 and another on the murder of Nye County Sheriff Thomas Logan in a
Manhattan brothel in April 1906. I have also published law enforcement pieces
in the Humboldt Historian, the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, the North-
]0000OLA,
NOLA- National Association for Outlaw & Lawman
History, Inc.
eastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, an article on the Mircovich-
Gregovich murder, Tonopah, May 1912, in a book honoring the late Wilbur
Shepperson and several articles in this series. Additionally, I have spoken on
female outlaws and other law enforcement related
: topics at several other endeavors.
As I get into the topic, it seems that there is much
more to it than I had once thought and I feel that it
is time to introduce NOLA, as we are known, to
readers. We are not a "shoot-em up" outfit, but,
rather, a group of serious researchers who publish
extensively. We also collaborate on research, put
up markers at historic sites and are currently in-
volved in setting up a site for a national research
center and museum focusing upon outlaw and
lawman history.
Every summer, we gather in rendezvous at some
location in the West for seminars and tours of
historic places. In 1987, we met in Kansas City,
Mo. where we visited sites associated with the
James, Dalton and Younger gangs. We have also
visited the courthouse of Judge Isaac Parker, the
"hanging judge," in Fort Smith, Ark., Lincoln,
N.M, the location of the famed Lincoln County
War, sites associated with the Johnson County
Cattle War in Wyo., the OK Coral in Tombstone,
Ariz., Brown's Hole, Wyo., a stop on the Outlaw
Trail where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
were once well known, and Hole-In-The-Wall,
Wyoming, the Cassidy gang's headquarters. This
coming summer, we will meet in Kileen, Texas.
photo by Nevada Historical Society - If you think that NOLA would add a new dimen-
sion to your life, we invite you to join us. Write Paula A. Miller, Membership
Secretary, 1201 Holly Court, Harker Heights, Texas, 76548-1538, or call her at
(817) 695-6518, home, or (817) 634-7233, work, or fax her at (817) 634-8399. First
year membership is $25. Subsequent yearly dues are $35. If you want to speak to
me personally, call the Nevada Historical Society in Reno at (702) 688-1191.
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