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Bill Longley and His Wild Career in Texas History
Longley's revolver filled escape after escape across Edwards and Frio counties. Sheriff Finley hunted him, a jail break tale arose, and a string of killings including Lew Sawyer and Reverend Roland Lay marked his infamous path. Local recollections tie the desperado to a net of murders, duels, and arrests across 1870s Texas.
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Edward's
Santa Anna
Longley
Mason County
Finley
William Henry
Bill
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Kerrville
Frank Eastwood
Bill Longley
Edwards County
Sheriff Finley
Austin
E. J. Davis
William Patterson
East
Evergreen
Richard Coke
Texas
Edmund J. Davis
Rock Springs
Lew Sawyer
Sawyer
Swift
Sawyer Longley
Frio County
Madison County
Bill McKiver
Madison
Fort Ewell
Dave Clark
Tanaha
Logansport
Angelina County
Lovelady
Houston County
Lee
Mr. Baker
Baker
Cale Longley
Wilson Anderson
Anderson
Cale
Waco
Brazos River
Chalk Bluff
Frank Jones
Dallas-Waco
Ledbury Farm
George Thomas
Thomas
Jones
Delta County
William Black
William Longley
Roland Lay
Ben Franklin
Roland Lay and Made Some Arrangements To Work For Mr. Lay
Lay
Black
Mr. Lay
Will C. Havens
Lavinia Jacks
Father
Cooper
Jacks