The Outlaw Who Couldn't Ride a Horse: Dick Fellows

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“Hands up! I’m robbing this here stage.” “What? Riding on a horse? You’ve got two empty halves of coconut and you’re banging ‘em together!” “Look, I have bad luck with horses, okay?”

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How did he get the coconuts?

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@@lynnmitzy1643 Maybe they were carried to California by a swallow. They could bind them to their feet with a length of creeper...

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How you find these almost forgotten pieces of history , is amazing! Always informative and presented in an attention grabbing way! Well done. One viewer said it best, this story was hilarious and sad at the same time! Being sober for 14 years, I remember the pain I caused myself and others, and my missteps. It is sad that he never broke the chains of alcohol. When I laugh at his missteps, I am laughing with him not at him! Hopefully in his lost history, he did break the chains of alcohol! Thank you for the snippet of history!

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You get the impression that without the alcohol addiction, he would have been a straight laced solid citizen, of value to his community.

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I think so- he was a victim of his addiction.

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Imagine if he went back to Kentucky. The bourbon state.

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The lesson here is that the Devil's Brew must be prohibited. /s

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Oh god yes. My family made shit loads of money during prohibition. We gots to prohibit that Devil's Brew. Gawd hates the stuff. And it makes Baby Jesus cry. Call grand pa and scrape the rust off the still. It's Thunder Road all over again

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or he was a master manipulator.

[@davidgambrel24]

I love your stuff watch it all the time. My roots are from the same place as Dick Fellows. He did indeed reunite with his Kentucky family. He is shown in the household of his sister Sallie Lytle Hatton and her husband on 1920 census in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky (family 373). His occupation is that of Spanish Teacher. Sallie was born 22 Aug 1860 and died 25 May 1922 and is buried in the Barbourville City Cemetery. He is also mentioned in his sister Lenora's wedding announcement in 30 Jun 1922 issue of the Mt Advocate

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I was gonna say this guy had incredibly bad luck, but he actually lucked out with all of those pardons!

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Not like he killed anyone!

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I doubt he hurt anyone that badly, if at all, and he was probably very complacent while in custody

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Pretty much

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This is such a great story. I can’t believe there hasn’t been a movie

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THG missed this when it was first published. Just loved it. Your understanding and just pure humanity when talking of Fellowes alchoholism does you great credit - to me at least. Love the channel and in case I dont post again, a very happy christmas to you and Mrs THG.

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Good evening. Thank you for the small bit of Education that you had giving us. Learning about the these little bits gives me a complete picture so what the West was like. I am a history buff. But I limit in myself history of the Civil War. There's so much to learn just from that small part of History it keeps me busy. Thank you again and have a good day

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If Monday were a person.... Poor critter.

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Morning would be his wife

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Sounds like Dick Fellows brought the old saying to life "Pardon me" lol

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I found this video while perusing your old episodes. Another great one! Never heard of him. Dick Fellows will be my alias if I ever turn to a life of crime. ;-)

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I was thinking - checking into a hotel..........

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Cup of coffee at starbucks.

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Starbucks coffee is a crime in Melbourne Australia. We are very particular about our coffee.

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Mark Fryer, Starbucks is also a crime in many parts of the U.S. -- unfortunately, our prosecutors are generally too lazy to prosecute, which does very little to curb crime.

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Al right everyone...lets not Dick Fellows around!

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Regarding Dick Fellows, there is actually newspaper articles describing how the bandit cleaned up his act and did move to Kentucky. Eventually he died there in 1933 (also more evidence, a headstone purchase order). Hope Thompson wrote an article about it on unmasked history.

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This was a great bit of history, should be made into a film.

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It has a Hollywood ending for sure!

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The movie scenes are from the classic western "Stagecoach" , which was the 1939 movie that made John Wayne a major movie star. The full movie is on You Tube and it is FREE. The town scenes in the movie opening were made at a time (1939) when people still remembered what the old west was really like.

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ziggy 2shus correct- the film is in the Public Domain.

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Wasn't that Andy Devine on the stagecoach?

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Just when I thought I had read and learned almost everything there is to know about the old west, THG comes up with this fascinating account of an outlaw I never even heard of. Is it any wonder I keep following his channel?

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How could 38 people not like this tale !!

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That poor man had the worst luck ever. He deserves to be remembered as a man who never gave up. A true legend.

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I'm guessing alcohol had a lot to do with him falling off his horse.

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stivendog im sure of it

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That's why they call it 'liquid courage'. Most guys would need a LOT of it to hold up a stage coach !

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If he was drunk while trying to rob stagecoaches, that would definitely explain why some horses refused to be cooperative. Horses can sniff out a good person and someone who reeks like alcohol doesn't smell like a good person. Also, he prolly didn't care about hurting the horses while drunk

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Technically, the booze can only be shown to have a causal link to falls from, specifically, a wagon. 😁

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Maahannnn,,,,, we and the entire world love you, (and remember I am happily married), but you are GREEEEAT... In all fairness, I saw this clip, and I can't help... but I'm still LAUGHING... Another of our freestanding gang members here below, who goes by the name of "Marbleman52, wrote to you 1 year ago, that this story reminded him of Don Knotz in Disney's fantasy THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG... and he is spot on. I once in my life met a guy like this, in Brazil. he was a Frenchman who after WW II was accused by the French elite as a German sympathizer when it was exactly the opposite. Anyway, he began to drink, to a point of forgetting who he was... Somewhere in the 70's, we formed a small association to help him to survive... And we found out that he had been pardoned in France... But he wouldn't accept his pardon, because he felt he had to remain a French Nationalist, right to his end. I loved the guy, and wrote a book UBIQUITY @ amazon, in which I tell a part of his life... LeBoef; Hamingway; Herman Hesse; Gaugain... all of them, where some characters... Yes Sireeee!

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This is a good story to explain the hell that alcohol can create. I know someone who cannot be a part of our life due to it.

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Alcohol and drugs destroy many lives and many families.

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My favorite so far !

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Another great posting really well presented and very interesting.Hollywood has a lot to answer for ,the reality is miles away from their versions.

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Why is this not a movie? What a story!!!

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We live in a house in Hoquiam, Washington called the "Lytle house". It was built by a lumber Baron as well as the Hoquiam castle where his brother lived. I don't know if they were related to Dick Fellows, but history also amazes and facinates me.

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Very informative.and entertaining.great.

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This is one of your best stories .. Love it!!

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Another great 👍 story thanks