Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Last names beginning with C

Calamity Jane; died in Terry, South Daktota, 1 August 1903; buried alongside her reputed (if doubtful) lover Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood.
White Calf {Piegan}; died 29 January 1903; currently unknown
California Joe; see Moses Milner
Woodrow F. Call; currently unknown
Martha Jane Cannary, see Calamity Jane
Frank Canton; in 1927; currently unknown
Christopher 'Kit' Carson; killed at Fort Lyon, Colorado; currently unknown
Butch Cassidy; currently unknown
Scarface Charley {Modoc}; died 3 December 1896; currently unknown
Jesse Chisholm; currently unknown
Ike Clanton; currently unknown
William 'Billy' Clanton; shot at the O.K. Corral, 26 October 1881; buried in Tombstone, Arizona.
Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain; buried in Elmira, New York. {courtesy Bruce Brackney}
Chatto {Apache}; currently unknown
Chihuahua {Apache}; died 25 July 1901; currently unknown
William Clark; currently unknown
Samuel 'Mark Twain' Clemens; currently unknown
Red Cloud {Ogallala Lakota}; died 10 December 1909; currently unknown
Cochise {Chiricahua Apache}; died 8 June 1874; currently unknown
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; died in 1917, buried alongside his wife Louisa, at the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum & Grave, 987 1/2 Look Out Mountain Road, Golden, Colorado. {Call for information: (303) 526-0747}
Mangas Colorado {Mimbreno Apache}; killed near Fort McLean, New Mexico, 17 January 1863; currently unknown
Samuel Colt; died 10 January 1862, in Hartford, Connecticut; currently unknown
William Averill 'Buffalo Bill' Comstock; lost a challenge match with Bill Cody over the sobriquet "Buffalo Bill", 69 bison to 49, in 1868. "Bill Comstock could take Buffalo Bill out at night and lose him. Cody was a good man, but Comstock...and I am not alone in this...was a better man"; quote by Charles Chase, an Indian fighter who knew both men. Killed, purportedly by Abner T. 'Sharp' Grover but perhaps by Cheyennes, on 27 August 1868 in Kansas; buried in the Fort Wallace (Kansas) cemetery, "third grave south of the northeast corner". {courtesy Kimberly Elliott}
Gregorio Cortez; died in Anson, Texas in 1916; currently unknown
Plenty Coups {Mountain Crow}; died 3 May 1932; currently unknown
Texas Jack Crawford; currently unknown
David 'Davy' Crockett; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
General George Crook; currently unknown
George 'Flatnose' Curry; shot by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, in 1900; currently unknown
Major General George A. Custer; killed at the Little Bighorn, Montana, 25 June 1876; buried in West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York

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