Chapter 2 Where It Happened: The Legend of the Robber Rooster Gang

His talent as a criminal gang leader is not as good as that of a boatman; his skill in robbing a train is not as good as cooking.However, John, with one blue and one brown eyes.Griffith and Butch are in the West Utah countryside called Robber's Coop.During the period when Cassidy's madmen gang joined forces to attack, they were the ruthless characters preferred by everyone. John's first boss called him Blue Eyes John. He first appeared in the area as a cook, but he didn't work for two years. In the spring of 1890, during a herd drive, he Meet Jim and Indian Ed, who go by the alias Silverpoint.Under the management of the notorious Foreman Jack, John herded the herd in the Chicken Coop area, and Jack never stinged with hospitality for the crazy gang who often met in San Rafael, Green, and by the Colorado River; sometimes John spent the winter Both stay in the coop, set up a base camp before and after raids, and sometimes help out with the livestock, always welcome at the coop.

Silverpoint, Blue-Eyed John and Indian Ed work among the gangs, contributing their superb skills whether it's horse-stealing, robbery or fighting.In 1898, before going to Wyoming to steal horses, they first assisted Jack the foreman to surround J. B．The remnants of the herd that Boll was unable to manage resulted in Jack being killed in a shootout on the return journey.At the beginning of the next year, the robbers sent the stolen horses to Colorado for sale and then returned to the chicken coop. , stole a batch of the finest horses in the area. The robbers of the Madman Gang have never paid much attention to the local security forces, and the security forces are also very careful not to get too close to the chicken coop; but this group of desperadoes also clearly know that the latest horse stealing operation Already making them the targets of judicial pursuits.

One morning in late February, in a canyon beside Chicken Coop Canyon, Indian Ed climbed over the rocks under the overhanging rocks of the canyon; Have spent the night under the hanging rocks in the canyon.Suddenly, a rifle shot cut through the morning silence. The .38 and .55 rounds hit a rock and bounced off Ed's thigh.He fell onto the sandy running water and crawled slowly into the hollow of the canyon, where Blue Eyed John and Silverpoint were fighting the local security forces. The security forces found them by following the whereabouts of these desperadoes and the campfires that were raised at night.Blue-eyed John held back the security forces, while Silvertip slipped out of the canyon hollow and climbed up to the edge of the canyon, where he fired three shots at the sheriff's men.The security forces quickly retreated to the main stream of Chicken Coop Canyon, mounted the horses they had left there, and fled all back to their farm with exaggerated stories of encounters with the Mad Men.

That was the last collaboration of the three gangsters.After the uproar, they put away their rifles, changed their style, chose to fade out of the stage, and leave a footprint for others to follow: Indian Ed healed his leg, and it was thought he was back in Oklahoma, incognito Live; Silver Tip went to Wayne County, Utah, served a ten-year sentence, but escaped after two years, and finally settled in Wyoming for the rest of his life.Blue-Eyed John was last seen in the fall of 1899, setting out from Hyatt on the Colorado River for Lee's Ferry, one of the most beautiful and forbidding tributaries of the West.However, according to speculation, he left the Colorado River on the way, heading for Arizona, or even Mexico, but no one ever saw him reach Lee's Ferry.Since then, I haven't heard any news from him again.

Of the three, only Blue-Eyed John left a permanent mark on the land: important ambush attack sites during the campaign spanned the watershed at Blue John Canyon and Blue John Springs , are all named after John, who was a chef, a carriage driver, and a horse thief who had been in the chicken coop for ten years before the turn of the century.