Cattle Annie

Anna Emmaline McDoulet , known as Cattle Annie (born November 29, 1882 in Lawrence , Kansas ; † November 7, 1978 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) was a young American outlaw in the Wild West , mostly together with Jennie Stevens (known as Little Britches ). Cattle Annie became known through the feature film Two Girls and the Doolin Gang (original title: Cattle Annie and Little Britches ) from 1981 , in which Amanda Plummer made her debut as Cattle Annie . Directed by Lamont Johnson , Diane Lane played the role of Little Britches . Cattle Annie and Little Britches were snipers with pistol and rifle, but today they are largely unknown outside of the film scene, although they were among the most mentioned names in Oklahoma and Indian territory in their time and were known for their criminal activities.

Life

Anna was born in Lawrence , Douglas County , eastern Kansas, one of eight children of James C. and Rebekah McDoulet. When Anna was four years old, the family moved to Coyville, Wilson County, in southeast Kansas. Anna worked in the hotel as a dishwasher and did other odd jobs. When she was twelve, the family moved to the Otoe Reservation near Skiatook, north of Tulsa, in northern Oklahoma , where she became an outlaw .

Life as an outlaw

Annie and Little Britches followed the stories about the Bill Doolin gang after reading dime novels such as that of Ned Buntline , who is famous for his mostly fictional stories about Buffalo Bill Cody (e.g. "Buffalo Bill Cody - King of the Border Guards") as a western border hero and show star. For two years, Cattle Annie and Little Britches roamed the former Indian territory , often together and at other times alone. They stole horses, sold alcohol to Osage and Pawnee Indians, and warned gangs of outlaws if law enforcement were around. They wore men's clothes and pistols in belt holsters. Their adventures made headlines from Guthrie , the capital of Oklahoma, to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas, where the Dalton gang attempted to rob two banks at the same time on October 5, 1892 . The Deputy Marshal Steve Burke summed up the 13-year-old Cattle Annie in 1895, after she climbed out of a window. His colleague, the US Marshal Bill Tilghman ( Uncle Billy ) had a more difficult task in the capture of Little Britches, who first shot both lawmen with a Winchester and then joined them after Tilghman shot her horse and she went down shot at Tilghman with a pistol and subsequently engaged in a physical altercation with the famous law enforcement officer before he could take her into custody. Cattle Annie was sentenced to one year in prison at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (now the Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction ) in Framingham until parole on health grounds. She stayed in Framingham for some time as law enforcement officials assumed that if she returned to Oklahoma she would likely become a criminal again. In 1898 she became the housekeeper of Mrs. Mary Daniels in Sherborn in Middlesex County south of Framingham. A few months later, she is said to have moved to New York City, where she died of tuberculosis.

Another scenario

Another legitimate report claims Annie left Framingham to return to Oklahoma. There she is said to have married Earl Frost of Perry , Noble County , Oklahoma on March 13, 1901 . The couple had two sons, Robert C. Frost (1903-1993) in Oklahoma City and Carlos D. Frost, later living in Malibu , California . The Frosts' marriage is believed to have been divorced in Noble County, Oklahoma , in October 1909 , possibly because Annie was supposed to work on a Wild West show.

The Guthrie Historical Museum reports that soon after the divorce, Annie married Whitmore R. Roach (1879–1947), a native Texan, World War I veteran and Oklahoma City painter. Cattle Annie is believed to have lived in Fort Worth , Texas from 1910 to 1912 , and returned to Oklahoma City in 1912. This "Emma McDoulet Roach" was buried in the Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City. She died in 1978, shortly before her 96th birthday. In her obituary nothing of her earlier days or her first name "Anna" was mentioned, but rather "Emma", a short form of "Emmaline", was referred to. The obituary also mentions that she had worked as an accountant in her later professional career. The funeral took place in her home church, the Olivet Baptist in Oklahoma City.

In the meantime it has become known that Little Britches was also briefly detained in Framingham. It is unknown where she stayed afterwards. Some reports suggest that Little Britches returned to Tulsa, raised a family there, and led a normal, unremarkable life.

media

Movie

Much is historically inaccurate in Johnson's 1981 film Two Girls and the Doolin Gang . So Burt Lancaster is much older than Bill Doolin . Rod Steiger plays Marshal Bill Tilghman , Scott Glenn in the role of Bill Dalton .

literature

The novelist Robert Ward, born in Baltimore , Maryland , published Cattle Annie and Little Britches in 1977, his personal interpretation of the romanticizing legends of the Dalton-Doolin gang .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Anna Emmaline "Cattle Annie" McDoulet Roach in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 28, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cattle Annie and Little Britches in the Internet Movie Database (English)
3. ^ Cattle Annie's page . angelfire.com. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cattle Annie & Little Britches . ranchdivaoutfitters.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 27, 2012. 
5. ^ The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892 . eyewitnesstohistory.com. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
6. ^ Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters . University of Oklahoma Press , Norman , Oklahoma 1979, ISBN 0-8061-2335-4 , pp. 325 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
7. ↑ CATTLE ANNIE (Anna Emmaline McDoulet, 1882-1978) . digital.library.okstate.edu. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2013. 
8. ^ Coincidentally, Annie's daughter-in-law, Esther Mae Frost (1907-1983), the wife of Robert C. Frost, had the maiden name of "Plummer", the last name of the actress who played Annie in the film.
9. ^ Robert Ward: Cattle Annie and Little Britches . William Morrow and Company, 1977, ISBN 0-688-03252-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).