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stories of famous and notorious

characters of that period

in the early 1890s near Guilford

Oklahoma during whiskey Runners traded

in the Osage Nation

one of the worst troublemakers was a

young woman from a squalic Backcountry

Homestead Jenny McCall whose nickname

little britches came from the only kind

of clothes she ever wore

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where's the rest of your family

there's only two of us

pause out someplace

well tell him he's got a new border

you wouldn't be from The RK Ranch

throwing ten dollar gold pieces around

what do you mean bar k that horse you

rode in

I'm just traveling looking for a place

to hold up for a couple of days

you must be hiding out

picking a place like this

I kind of like it here

it's miles from the road

I guess you wouldn't see many people

now with your kind of money to spend

you didn't say where you got this

what do you care

maybe I stuck up a train

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you know you'd be kind of pretty

undressed

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Stanley gotta do something about that

horse outside

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October the 3rd 1893 we rode into

Guilford Oklahoma to investigate the

Train Robbery which had taken place

I'm Matt Clark railroad Detective

Frankie Adams also worked for the

railroad she was assigned to the same

job

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Frankie

and looking for you hi Marshall any news

to hold up no the men split up we

haven't found them our report says they

got eleven thousand dollars and most of

it in Gold they held up the mail car

while the train was still running jumped

off in the middle of nowhere before

anybody knew what was happening good

country hide in it might still be around

I know just going out got a couple of

homesteaders I haven't checked up on yet

they might have seen the men were after

mind if we go along with you you're

mighty welcome I got this whole

territory to cover not have enough

deputies come on

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it's a marshall come on out this way

I'll get rid of them

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the Jeff McCall's place got a Steeler on

somewhere makes Moonshine Whiskey

come on in

hello little britches what do you want

your father on he's out hunting why what

do you want with him just a couple of

questions nothing you can't answer

oh uh let's Miss Adam Mr Clark from the

railroad Jenny McCall only most folks

around here call our little riches we're

wondering if he'd seen any strangers up

this way

not around here

there was a train robbed the men split

up and they're traveling without horses

we thought maybe you could help us that

sounds like your job I'm not looking for

trouble we posted a reward 500 for any

information that'll bring them in five

hundred dollars well

if they drop around for a social call

I'll let you know

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what do you think you're doing

that's a lot of dishes for anybody

eating alone it's just paw on me there's

work around here I didn't get to them

you want to leave or you want to get

helped

all right let's go

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and don't bring any more your snooping

friends have a warrant next time or

you'll ride home backwards picking out

buckshot

I'm talking to these homesteaders

they're all petty themes straight cattle

horses anything to get their hands on

talk

you're saying you'd held up a train

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they didn't know anything

style around letting people know there's

a reward for tipping them off

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you wouldn't be thinking about

collecting a reward would you honey

of course not darling

I'll have to leave now whether I want to

or not

I know the back roads I could take you

part way

wherever it is you're going

I see today's Wednesday

I gotta meet a couple of guys in Diablo

tomorrow

you better take this

you'd be needing it you keep it

plenty more where that came from

it's too heavy to carry so I dug a hole

and buried it back down a canyon

we can stop for him I'll drive you that

far

look why make it just part way

you and me could keep right on going

the place you've never seen before

our places are stuck out here in the

middle of nowhere

talking about Big Towns

we'd have plenty of money

we'd live like we owned them

what do you say honey

you don't know my father

he'd follow us and skin me alive

who says he know where to find us

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I'm making up some coffee for those

reward posters well I haven't printed

tomorrow

say Marshall the girls run away stole my

team and wagon

left this note for me Jeff McCall Matt

uh Bridge's father hi

Jeff

hi I'm Leland no use looking for me

Jenny well it's up to you to find her

this is one time I'm asking favors of

the law uh she'll be back Jeff girls are

always running away she can go to

Blazers and stay there I need my team

you know of any particular reason why

she'd leave I don't care what the reason

was yeah look look what she left me

expect ten dollars to buy a new Wagon in

the team well you couldn't buy a broke

down team of mules for that money that's

what they're talking to Robert Marshall

gold pieces what do you mean what are

you talking about Train Robbery just

south of here you see anybody around

your place somebody who she might want

to leave with well ain't been over five

days how would I know say you're going

to find that team Marshall I guarantee

you we're going to try it Jeff we'll try

and find little britches too oh dang

little Bridges I won my horses

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we ask everyone who travel the roads had

to seen a girl and a man on a wagon

Marshall

that driver just told me so a boy and a

girl heading south through Canyon pass

Canyon pass leads to a town near the

border

tough little place called Diablo get

your horse Frankie

let's go Marcia

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thank you

hello Dave

I don't see you carrying anything

it's right here

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I'll be right back

well that's just a partner of mine

with that dress

you sure look good yeah I like it I'd

like to keep it give me some money

well I don't have any right now honey

you're going back inside and I'll get

the money and come back and pay for it

you're always picking up some girl

I brought it with me from Guilford

Homestead I stopped at yeah I know of

course you know you'll have to send her

back

the Kerwin we could use her she's got

nerve

runs whiskey for Old Mac

it won't work Dave

I'm cutting in too many already

did you have a look at the bank yeah it

ought to be easy enough the bankers

alone most of the time

but how about the split on the last one

I'm keeping it until there's enough to

buy out that freight company look her

when I'm fed up you don't pay any of us

enough

don't talk to me like that look I'm

quitting you can run it your own way but

I want what's coming to me

occur when I need that money I need it

bad you're gonna get it bad

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nice partner you guys it's not the end

of this

we've been building up to this for a

long time

the money for my dress

I haven't got it honey

Kerwin wouldn't split

but we don't need him baby

so I have to take it back

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go ahead tell her to hold it for a

couple of days where are we going to the

bank to make a withdrawal now hurry

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it's all clear he's alone in there I'm

going in and don't be silly I'm the one

who wants a dress cover me

good morning

good morning well this is a hold up put

the money in that bag

never mind the silver

Diablo looked like a sleepy little town

but that shows how wrong you can be

it was ready to break wide open

turn around

put your hands up higher

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thank you

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I don't know what you're talking

new day was carrying gold lots of it did

I

you left the gold piece for your dad

I'd hate to hear what he's going to say

when he finds out about you

he beat the life out of me I'm better

off in jail

you want to know britches what did Dave

do with the rest of that gold why don't

you ask him

suppose we'll have to tell her

your boyfriend Dave is dead

it's a lie you're trying to trick me

Dollar Marshall that's right we just

brought the body in

honest

she's tied belly down to that horse out

there

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you could make it a lot easier on

yourself if you give us the names of the

other men

Dave must have told you

he didn't honestly

his partner

until he said

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you killed Dave

you didn't have to

that's the way the law works

that you're gonna pay for it

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might calm you down if you have some

coffee

I hope you choke on it

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the keys they're on the desk

I didn't talk I didn't tell him anything

that's why you're getting out

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put this on it won't fit but it might

help a little

coal wouldn't hurt

better than being in

your trouble wasn't getting tied up with

somebody like Dave you sound like a

marsh

you know you could be useful

you've got nerve otherwise you wouldn't

be here thanks for the favors but I'm

riding alone

where I don't know

I got hurt once that ought to be enough

oh now listen these hold up to Small

Time stuff it's only until there's

enough to buy a freight wagon outfit

that I've had my eye on for some time

holding up trains you can have enough

money to turn on us

no not exactly

this freight line has wagons good ones

and I have ways of making money they

never thought of

we make any deal it has to be one way

yeah I know strictly business

kick up the fire

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hi how'd you make out

I closed the deal we now owned the Wood

River freight company Lock Stock and

Barrel I'm hiring drivers the first

thing tomorrow

I think you can drive one of these

things

try me and see

and I said it had to be strictly

business

just look

how can you love a girl that looks like

me

it's easy

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Frank and I had been busy we'd talk to

practically everyone in town trying to

get a lead on little Bridges

where have you been I've got some news

for you over the telegraph office to

pick up this wire britches was in town

last night how did you find out the

dressmaker said she was in to pick up a

dress she bought the day the bank was

held up paid for it with Mexican money

Mexican money

listen to this War I just came from

Washington it's an official Complaint

from the Mexican Government

smuggle guns Crossing border to

Insurrection has stopped authorities

asked to cooperate on both sides at Line

stop

did you find out anything else well the

dressmaker said she bought two pair of

heavy gloves wanted them to drive a team

with

I checked with the landlady over at the

Roman house she said there was a girl

that came in dressed like a man that

stayed there several nights

girl her size driving a team all I know

the landlady said she came 10 through

town like she was raised in wagons and

had harness brass for teething rings

that sounds like britches all right

Mexican money

that's telegram gloves

you know Frankie it takes wagons to run

guns

we're gonna start checking every Freight

Line in the county let's go that won't

be necessary

the landlady said the last time she saw

her she was driving a team for the Wood

River freight company let's go

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pulled out about an hour ago on a

regular trip to Mexican border let's go

find the sheriff

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to get a posse

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stop them

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okay

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careful Frankie I'll see about Kerwin

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Kerwin was sentenced to hang on July the

8th 1894. Jenny McCall lost the name

little britches and was given a number

instead

in the west there were no jails for

women so she was sentenced to the

federal Reformatory in Massachusetts

where she was released after serving

three years

it wasn't long after her release at

another old charge against her was

brought to our attention little britches

was wanted for questioning about a

railroad hold up

the report said she was doing settlement

work in the New York slums we were sent

to find her

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you better make sure Frankie go ahead

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thank you

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I'm sorry I

I was looking for somebody else

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it doesn't even look like a mat

yeah I guess you're right Frankie

on little Bridges New York

just too big a town