Bacon sells for 8 cents per pound, flour 4 cents per pound, coffee 25 cents per pound, sugar 6 to 10 cents per pound.
He claimed that he was grabbed by a mob that believed he was part of the gang of cutthroat Cullen Montgomery Baker, and that they hanged him on the spot, along with a man named Johnson.
Bloody Bill Longley, Henington Publishing Company, 1996.
He was captured, court-martialed, and sentenced to two years' confinement at Camp Stambaugh, Wyoming Territory.
His letters became religious tomes, and he used his own experiences to illustrate the folly of a wasted life.
Between 1992 and 1994 an effort was made to find his body in the Giddings Cemetery, but to no avail.