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Outlaw Zip Wyatt AKA Dick Yeager

"A Long Time To Die: On the evening of August 4th, under heavy guard, Zipp was jailed in Enid and charged with felonies committed in Garfield County. Local jurisdictions continued to argue over who would try him, but doctors told them Zipp was a dying man."

I have been doing some research for a body of work I am doing on a small town called Marshall, Oklahoma. Some of the info I found mentioned of a famous outlaw named Zipp Wyatt, aka Dick Yeager that was captured near Marshall in 1895. After doing a few searches, I found a lady who has an original photograph (possibly a photo postcard) of Zip Wyatt in jail. After emailing her to get a scan of the image, she amazingly sent me an original copy of the photograph of Zipp dying in the Garfield Co. jail. She mentioned her health was not good and she had no family to pass the image on to. If you get a chance,check out this story about Zipp Wyatt . I love this photo. A real American west "outlaw"-

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