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Americus Weekly Recorder

Location

Americus, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jul 27, 1888

Page

6

Headless Horseman Sightings Spur Local Legends

Readers report a headless rider on a piebald horse along a ridge between the towns near Saltillo. The phantom, clad in buckskin with a rifle, allegedly appears nightly frightening travelers and evokes a long local legend of buried treasure and a murdered pioneer.

Saltillo William Dunn John Tanner Dunn Turner

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