The Last OUTLAW | The Manhunt of Harry Tracy

Considered by some to be the last of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, Harry Tracy blasted his way out of prison in the summer of 1902. What followed was one of the most desperate man hunts in all of U.S. history. Over the course of the next two months, Tracy would lead hundreds of lawmen, including the National Guard, on a deadly game of chase that would see at least 7 men gunned down. According to the papers of his time, “In all of the criminal lore of the country, there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation, and a thirst for crime. Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday School teacher.” But who was the real Harry Tracy? Where’d he come from? What started him on a life of crime? And did he really ride with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? #history #wildwest #truecrime
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Hope u had a good thanksgiving

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Up and down or circles???

[@stanleybrown7844]

I swear Josh you are the most informative and entertaining narrator covering the history of the West thanks again

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Too kind but thank you

[@vintagecapgunsatyourmomshouse]

Yes I agree. Josh has a great dramatic voice and his research is really impressive.

[@bethbartlett5692]

​@@WildWestExtravaganza Your voice is identical to a friend, a guy from North Carolina, that I was a peer for 8 years. No talking about accent, I mean your voice is identical. I heard him often on conference calls and live when we were at Corporate for meetings. He lives close to Winston Salem and is a really great guy. Married, Dad of 3 sons/grown now, and back in the day he would have a drink of whiskey or 5 and a cigar. A fine Christian man by any Southern Protestants standards and a big heart. Good man. I'm going to share one of your videos/audio's with him. (Mike Jeffries, in case ya get a msg.) You guys should talk to each other, it is hands down amazin'! . Thx! Beth

[@Paulie5314]

I've watched several of these. As a Western transplant, I enjoy the cadence. He doesn't have that pompous tone experts have, but all the information, if not more. Thanks.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Gracias

[@scottlund4562]

Old DJ here getting inspired to podcast as your take is so damn entertaining, love it!

[@johnwager6704]

Harry was missing a soul. Poor bastard has no chance in the afterlife. Great job! I have been waiting for part 2

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks

[@pamartin]

You Sir, tell an excellent story. Thank you for posting.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks for listening

[@jackwoods535]

Very underrated outlaw, probably because of his location. Extremely daring and intelligent.

[@Michigan_npc]

Hell yeah thanks man for another absolutely amazingly narrated video happy early Thanksgiving

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks! Same to you!

[@WVF112469]

Salem Oregon is where I live and have been through and worked in the Renton, Seattle and enumclaw area. That mental institution and state hospitals is still standing strong. Thanks for bringing it to my home, keep up the good work.

[@UncleBildo]

Good piece. Been watching your backlog of late, was pleasantly pleased to see Tracy pop up. I was raised in Lincoln County, long hearing the stories of Harry Tracy. As a teen, we camped regularly in the cave Tracy is said to have hid out in for a couple three days, on Wilson Creek, South of Almira. He supposedly bummed food off the local rancher, I think then it was the Peter McKay family, though the ranch is known locally as the Kiner Ranch (KII actually). He IS a challenge to research, have taken a couple pokes at it over time, fighting the complete crap stories was a battle. The whole Wild Bunch attachment also eluded me, no matter where I scraped around. Love your work, could happily choke you occasionally on pronunciation, but you at least do the leg work! Keep up the good work. Don't let nitpicking A-holes like me bum ya out! heh heh heh

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Haha thanks

[@davidruppel1216]

Good history lesson. I'm a native Oregonian and I never new much about Tracy. Thanks for the enlightenment

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

My pleasure!

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

What you said about him forcing his way into peoples homes being traumatic. Leaving the men With the feeling of inadequacy... hits home with me. When i was deployed to iraq. when we would do a raid on a house. Looking for Local Al qaeda fighters... you can see it in the mens eyes. This deep inadequacy of being tied up in front of his wife and kids. After the enemy storms his house And he couldn't do anything about it.. i would never want that to happen to me. Knowing you couldn't protect your family. Or worse your family knowing you cant protect them. i fear that more than death.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Scary for sure

[@sonnygunz9207]

Well said SAF.

[@lcraig1maccom]

This channel is wasaaay too good for as many commercials as this episode had

[@dannysimmons3167]

What is the world coming to when you can’t trust a victim to keep their word. But how gullible do you have to be to expect someone to honor a word given under duress.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Exactly

[@kennydoggins1712]

I mean some people know better than to involve the police in a situation that's no longer dangerous by the time you can get to them. I personally wouldn't leave one hostile situation with guns for another one.

[@jonathanhahn3014]

Another awesome episode. Never heard of this guy. Thank you again! Happy turkey day boss man

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@KSFWG]

Josh, you're getting pretty good at rolling your R's in the intro! 😁

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

I try

[@kayakbassman]

Another good video... just listened to part 1 .... part was just as good .... more coffee!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks!

[@mitchberby7472]

Your rambling is what me made me like and subscribe.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks Mitch!

[@donaldpease5535]

Thanx again for another great story....Happy Trails Josh

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

My pleasure, same to you

[@julianharrison8878]

Hi Josh excellent and fascinating video. What gets me about the old west is the offbeat asides to stories like is the home of gunfighter Ben Thompson still standing in his birthplace of Knottingley West Yorkshire over here in the UK and did Butch Cassidy on his way to South America with Sundance and Etta Place come over to Liverpool for him to visit his relatives in Preston,Lancashire. Loving the channel Josh. Very best wishes. Jim Harrison. Cheshire UK.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks Jim

[@cavaleirodosul284]

Bandits who rode horses were common here in Brazil until the 1930s.

[@jackwoods535]

Cool! Did you ever have the Tommy Gun Gangster era?

[@cavaleirodosul284]

@@jackwoods535 At the time the US was entering the gangster era, Brazil was still very rural, gangster-like criminals were much rarer, and we didn't have a prohibition era like the US

[@jackwoods535]

@@cavaleirodosul284 Right, I was speaking more like our motorized bandits, such as Dillinger, Nelson, etc. I guess you guys skipped that part, lol.

[@cavaleirodosul284]

@@jackwoods535 Sorry, we also have this

[@VaxtorT]

Yup, House of the Rising Sun. Been the downfall of many a poor boy ....and God....I know.... I'm one.

[@swhip897]

A man breaks into my house then sends me to fetch him 2 45s.. I'd get em. I Do believe however I wouldn't give them to him butt first. Tracy was sneaky and mean but sometimes that doesn't matter when your family is threatened. I can be sneaky and mean too. Shoot Josh, I may have curled up in a ball on the floor crying like a baby. ☹ Morbid people. Crazy what they do to get a piece of him. I was in Baxter Springs KS today. Went to the area where Quantrill raid happened. Baxter.. A lot of history around here. Shoot, Bonnie and Clyde hid out in a house in South Joplin. It was on my paper route. Never really know what one would do when in danger. Great episode. Hug the wife, kiss the baby.👊 Happy Thanksgiving ! And the Boys will probably lose.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Agreed

[@jenniferferguson4373]

I really enjoy your voice and sense of humor. I think we could be friends. 😂

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks

[@fleadoggreen9062]

He obviously didn’t want to back to prison!!! Must’ve been horrible

[@terrioestreich4007]

Great episode!!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Gracias

[@user-yd3fq3jr2t]

Those body snatchers at the end. You had me laughing so hard, are people the biggest pieces of S**t ..... thanks for the laugh .....bueno trabajo

[@richardlincoln8438]

Best Wishes to You and Your Family for a Wonderful Thanksgiving Josh.

[@mephysto2031]

Id like to say maybe these codes that outlaws lived by slowly have diminished due to law enforcement becoming less trustworthy in fact embracing the option to lie to not only the criminals but the public at large.

[@user-rw7xi1zb8h]

My great uncle died in 1985 96years old listened to all his stories 100 ×× he tell me "BOY u beter be good or the people gona fillet your corps like HARRY TEACY I seen it 1st had when I was 15 some people are just damn crazy I felt real sorry for the outlaw"then jump into a 1920s roughnecking the oil boom towns texas oklahoma

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Good advice!

[@walterwilliams4803]

my favorite one so far

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks

[@davy1458]

I know rosey palmer....we go back years....we been known to sit and talk for hours.

[@brentbrumley4640]

You said if you were ever an outlaw you'd head for a big city with lots of heavy public transport. I don't know if all big cities are the same, but the one I'm in has city cameras everywhere, especially in the public transport. Maybe if you can grayman with a mask on... but you won't be able to get comfortable with out same serious changes to your looks.

[@mitchberby7472]

How is this not a fucking blockbuster movie!

[@popcornhead3479]

Great stuff good job

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Much appreciated

[@BrooksDunn]

I live 40 min south of Seattle and never heard of him. You know how some towns prop up their outlaws? This is pretty interesting.

[@stayhungry1503]

he sure had the perfect face for an outlaw

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Yep

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Too much rain in that area to be on the lam !🙃

[@jayledermann7701]

As a Cowboys fan since the mid-70s, may I say I find you have gone south of the code I live by....lol. Very well done video. I know much of the west history but I had never heard of this guy. Thanks for the interesting information.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

You'll be happy to know they're currently up 7-3

[@jayledermann7701]

@WildWestExtravaganza haha , yeah they are good but I don't think they are quite there yet. I have always been fascinated by John w Hardin so I will have to check that video out as well.

[@LloydCJ-eu3yg]

"Jolly Foul-mouthed Josh" at it again. Yeeeeeehaaaaawe 🐎🐎🐎

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Ole dirty mouth McGee

[@harrycarter1722]

Dude! I always had long hair. Just took the sheep shears to it. How did you get my pic?

[@scottyfox6376]

I think you hit the nail on the head in your description of criminal's self justification as ok guys. We have prison channels that are convicted,drug dealers,strong arm robbers, break & enter thieves,car thieves etc etc but they don't hurt women even though they have 1/2 dozen family law court cases. But they tell good war stories so ppl believe they are "Good Thugs".

[@cgarrand78]

Josh,is wisperin sweet nothins in a tracking dogs ear a proven tactic? lol

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Absolutely

[@JRriffin]

He definitely had some assistance as he roamed the Seattle region. He probably had lots of criminal underworld connections, and there were phones in 1902 , wiretapping wasn't invented yet. When he headed east he was exposed. No forest up on the Palouse.

[@brianmckee7010]

All the poor man had was high blood pressure… volcano, head…. He didn’t know how to deal with it.

[@jlemaire9418]

8:24 Totally works when a hungry man can say it right. Edit: preferably not at gun point.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Yeah the guns seem to be intimidating

[@MicahBell_1860]

Until a few decades ago, there was a code that you don't involve squares (non criminals or your enemies' families etc. Drugs & psychopaths ended those codes Happy trails, Cowpoke

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Happy trails

[@MicahBell_1860]

How dare you dis my Cowboys! Next you'll be trashtalking my Ranger​@@WildWestExtravaganza

[@elias560]

What are you talking about newspapers from this time constantly talk about robbers murdering people during robberies those rose tinted glasses are strong.

[@beorbeorian150]

Thinking he outwitted the dogs handlers not the dogs

[@jamierobinson3349]

I'm originally from Northern California but have been living in Oregon for half my life now and I gotta say, after hearing what the Governor of Oregon did back then doesn't surprise me, because somehow the biggest crooks ever always get elected Governor here lol 😆

[@MurderHornet-mo3tm]

🤣 if u preach on me kid lol

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

Have a happy thanksgiving!!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

You too!

[@indivisible885]

Would you really go to the city, if you were on the run? That seems crazy, to me. But I have a hard time blending in. I was actually refused entry to a hotel one time, due to mistaken identity. The lady working the desk thought I was a guy they had kicked out the previous week, although I had never been there. And I was put in handcuffs one time, due to falling asleep in a parking lot across from a bank, Not in the bank parking lot. Just beside it and the lady opening the bank called the police. Crazy shite

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

In a big city you blend in

[@indivisible885]

@@WildWestExtravaganza some people probably do. I can't seem to blend in anywhere, unless I'm in the woods wearing camouflage 😀

[@danielwebster5748]

Harry seem to always be forcing someone to do something usually forcing a meal.

[@earlclue]

super chief, thanks

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

You bet

[@raymondboyd1200]

When you roll your R’s it sounds like you’re gargling butter. Great video though.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Raymond, you have the dead eyes of a morally corrupt deviant. That said, you are correct and I can’t roll my Rs worth a dang.

[@DaleMontdale-xd1mc]

Hell yes!

[@Aspiring-Hobo]

This dude has "the look" of a criminal

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

for sure

[@Voots7]

Goodun.

[@pedromiguel3227]

Josh! You need your get picked up by a major network. Your narrative style, research, and overall delivery is peerless😅

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks!!!! I appreciate it

[@ethnodagger9296]

Is it bad that I could be that man’s brother. We have the exact same face, I don’t have a crooked nose, and my ears are more round then pointed, but he does look like a spitting image of my father and just like me when I buzz my hair.

[@josuejimenez6174]

Looks kinda like Nick Cruz

[@podunkmissouri4999]

Too much facial recognition in cities now. Just hide in the woods with Rosie

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Too many game cameras, drones, hunters, hikers, etc

[@podunkmissouri4999]

​@WildWestExtravaganza good point. You don't want your pic to end up on Facebook with a caption that says I caught this asshole trespassing by my tree stand.

[@Jeffrey-ef5vc]

By the way Rosie palm has 4 sisters lol😂

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

How many digits you got on each hand?

[@Jeffrey-ef5vc]

@@WildWestExtravaganza It could be argued the thumb is separate but what are we doing here anyway? I do enjoy your shows think your research is off the charts! Keep up the excellence

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

​@@Jeffrey-ef5vchaha

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Packers beat the cowboys in the playoffs 😊

[@drewandcharlie7583]

Ya know that kinda look that just says criminal.. The good old seattle days. Tough port town. Now its mostly homeless communists and fairies. Shame.

[@monkeytron5061]

Haha all the dogs in this story are rubbish

[@tylernathan7985]

Sweet

[@vintagecapgunsatyourmomshouse]

I promise you modern Seattle is way more dangerous