More Tales Behind the Tombstones by Enss Chris;

Author:Enss, Chris;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493017881
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2015-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

George Parrott

d. 1881

Dr. John E. Osborne, early-day Wyoming governor . . . went west from Vermont. “Big Nose” George Parrot was lynched by a Wyoming posse. Dr. Osborne . . . removed a square of skin from the body and had it tanned and fashioned into a pair of shoes.

— ESSEX COUNTY REPUBLICAN, MAY 7, 1943

George Lathrope, better known as Big Nose George Parrott, was perhaps the most notorious bandit in Wyoming in the 1870s. At one time or another he appeared in all of the Rocky Mountain States at the head of his hard-bitten gang of mail robbers and murderers.

Fearless and brutal, “Big Nose” George staged many a successful mail robbery along the tracks of the Union Pacific strung through the Wyoming desert, but like most of the other bad men of his time he tried one job too many and paid for his career in crime.

It was mid-August 1878 when Parrott and his men decided to rob the United Pacific train a short distance from the little mining town of Carbon, Wyoming. They used the same trick Jesse James had when he robbed a train at Adair, Iowa, in 1873. They pulled spikes on a downhill curve and a length of wire was attached to the rail. It was their intention to pull and spread the rail from their place of concealment and pitch the train down a ravine. Once the train had derailed, the plan was to rifle the pay-car and make for some desolate camp in the plains.

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