21 Facts About Fred Waite

Frederick Tecumseh "Dash" Waite, occasionally spelled Fred Wayte was noted for a period when he was a cowboy in New Mexico and a member of Billy the Kid's gang.

Fred Waite was known for later serving as a legislator in the Chickasaw Nation government, and as its Attorney General.

In 1880 at about age 27, Fred Waite left the gang and returned to the Chickasaw Nation to build a more settled life.

Fred Waite married, became a rancher, and started a family.

Fred Waite lived a law-abiding life thereafter and became involved in Choctaw and Chickasaw politics.

Fred Waite was elected to the Chickasaw legislature both as a representative and as a senator.

Fred Waite was appointed by the council and chief as Attorney General of the Chickasaw Nation.

Fred Waite was born in the Chickasaw Nation at Fort Arbuckle, in what is Garvin County, Oklahoma.

Fred Waite was the son of Catherine Waite and Thomas Fletcher Waite.

Fred Waite's father was a farmer who operated a trading store and stage stop southeast of Pauls Valley in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.

Reportedly, Fred Waite was sent to school first at the Illinois Industrial University, for education in European-American ways.

Fred Waite moved to St Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from Mound City Commercial College in 1874.

Fred Waite managed a crew of thirty ranch hands who were looking after about a thousand head of cattle.

Fred Waite left home in 1875, intending to go to Colorado.

Fred Waite later worked for John Tunstall, a rancher who was later to be one of the leaders of the Tunstall-McSween vs Dolan war, better known as the Lincoln County War.

On February 18,1878, after Tunstall was killed, Fred Waite became a member of the Regulators.

Fred Waite was present when the gang killed Buckshot Roberts, a suspect in the murder of Tunstall.

Fred Waite was said to have stayed with the Regulators long enough to become the subject of one county and two federal arrest warrants.

The gang split up, and Fred Waite headed back to Indian Territory.

Fred Waite married Mary E Thompson on December 1,1881, moved to the Chickasaw Nation, and started a family.

Fred Waite was elected as a representative from his home district, and then as a senator in the Chickasaw government.