Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 0:54:48 GMT -5
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The man Brushy Bill Roberts was referring to was not William Thomas Waggoner of Arlington Downs fame, but rather the second victim of the Johnson County Wyoming Cattle War who was hung in 1891.
This man, a German immigrant, is something of a mystery. Him and his common law wife lived in a small two bedroom cabin, and nobody was certain how it was that he owned over 1,100 horses to his name.
Many thought that he stole the horses, which was the reason why he was eventually hung, however authorities never found a single horse with another person's brand on them. So he was apparently murdered for no real reason.
The newspaper article above mentions his relatives in Ohio, my home state, looking to get justice for his murder. I did some figuring, although I don't have a listing of what horses in the 1890s cost, but an 1870 list shows working horses were going for $150 and saddle horses were going for $200.
So that means, at bottom, the man was worth $165,000 and at tops worth $220,000 in that time which would translate to a worth of between $4,655,482.89 and $$6,207,310.52 which is a drop in the bucket considering Brushy Bill Roberts said Tom Waggoner gave him $10,000 for winning a horse race.
Waggoner covered all the bets, according to Brushy Bill Roberts, and judging by the information I have found this man almost singlehandedly had a monopoly on the horse trade in Johnson County Wyoming, if not the entire state.
Furthermore, if one looks into the census history of Oliver Pleasant Roberts alias Brushy Bill Roberts, in the early 1900s he put down money for 80 acres. How much did an acre of land cost in, let's say 1910? In Texas, it was roughly $10 an acre. So that's $800. That's the equivalent of $21,772.29 in 2018.
Considering Roberts basically lived a life of poor pensioner by the time William Morrison met him in 1948, it's always been the assertion of skeptics that was basically how he always lived his life. Very simple and without much means. Yet, the evidence shows that at least at some point he had stored away a rather sizeable amount of money.
Jesus bless you all 😊
The man Brushy Bill Roberts was referring to was not William Thomas Waggoner of Arlington Downs fame, but rather the second victim of the Johnson County Wyoming Cattle War who was hung in 1891.
This man, a German immigrant, is something of a mystery. Him and his common law wife lived in a small two bedroom cabin, and nobody was certain how it was that he owned over 1,100 horses to his name.
Many thought that he stole the horses, which was the reason why he was eventually hung, however authorities never found a single horse with another person's brand on them. So he was apparently murdered for no real reason.
The newspaper article above mentions his relatives in Ohio, my home state, looking to get justice for his murder. I did some figuring, although I don't have a listing of what horses in the 1890s cost, but an 1870 list shows working horses were going for $150 and saddle horses were going for $200.
So that means, at bottom, the man was worth $165,000 and at tops worth $220,000 in that time which would translate to a worth of between $4,655,482.89 and $$6,207,310.52 which is a drop in the bucket considering Brushy Bill Roberts said Tom Waggoner gave him $10,000 for winning a horse race.
Waggoner covered all the bets, according to Brushy Bill Roberts, and judging by the information I have found this man almost singlehandedly had a monopoly on the horse trade in Johnson County Wyoming, if not the entire state.
Furthermore, if one looks into the census history of Oliver Pleasant Roberts alias Brushy Bill Roberts, in the early 1900s he put down money for 80 acres. How much did an acre of land cost in, let's say 1910? In Texas, it was roughly $10 an acre. So that's $800. That's the equivalent of $21,772.29 in 2018.
Considering Roberts basically lived a life of poor pensioner by the time William Morrison met him in 1948, it's always been the assertion of skeptics that was basically how he always lived his life. Very simple and without much means. Yet, the evidence shows that at least at some point he had stored away a rather sizeable amount of money.
Jesus bless you all 😊