Dunn Brothers (other)
Dunn Brothers may refer to: * Dunn Brothers (bounty hunters), Old West bounty hunters * Dunn Bros, an American coffeehouse franchise *Dunn Brothers (construction contractors), St. Louis, Missouri builders of the Wachter Motor Car Company Building {{Disambiguation ...
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Dunn Brothers (bounty Hunters)
The Dunn Brothers were a group of brothers from Pawnee, Oklahoma, who worked as Old West bounty hunters. They are best known for having killed George "Bittercreek" Newcomb and Charley Pierce, members of the Wild Bunch. The brothers - Bee, Calvin, Dal, George and Bill Dunn - ran a boarding house near Ingalls and a meat market in Pawnee. Bill Dunn was the leader, and the oldest of the brothers. By the 1880s the Dunn brothers were working as bounty hunters, although they had been involved in cattle rustling and robbery. Their teenaged sister Rose became romantically involved with "Bittercreek" Newcomb, having met him through her brothers. On May 2, 1895, when Newcomb and Charley Pierce rode up to the Dunn house to visit with Rose, the brothers shot and killed both outlaws as they dismounted. They then collected the bounty on both, believed to have been $5,000 each, mostly due to the notoriety of the gang by that time. It is believed that on August 25, 1896, Bill Dunn led Deput ...
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