Matt Warner was a notable figure from the American Old West who was a farmer, cowboy, rancher, ferryman, cattle rustler, bank robber, justice of the peace, lawman, and bootlegger.
26 Facts About Matt Warner
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Matt Warner co-wrote The Last of the Bandit Riders, a memoir.
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Matt Warner's father was a farmer and a Mormon bishop, Christina being, by some accounts, his fifth wife.
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Matt Warner came to the United States and lived in Utah in the early 1850s.
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Matt Warner was a missionary and a preacher in the United States and for two years in Denmark.
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Matt Warner became the Bishop of Levan, and had eight children, including Ezra and Oliver.
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Teeny, Matt Warner's sister, married Tom McCarty, the leader of the Blue Mountain Gang.
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When Matt Warner was thirteen or fourteen years old, he got into a fight with another young man over a girl.
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In 1878, Matt Warner went to the eastern Uinta Mountains, where cattle grazed on the range and farmers irrigated their crops on remote homesteads.
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Matt Warner shot a Mexican horse thief during a gunfight; he was 15.
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Matt Warner received some of the cattle that he had rustled with Warren, enough to start his own cattle ranch on Diamond Mountain.
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Matt Warner joined a crew of cowboys trailing a herd of horses into the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah.
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Matt Warner had 124 horses by October 16,1886, when he mortgaged them.
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Matt Warner was one of the "Last of the Bandit Riders", whose initiation to crime began with John Jarvie.
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Matt Warner arranged a masquerade dance and asked party-goers to obtain "hot" clothes at Jarvie's store to attend the party.
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Matt Warner was a member of the Robber's Roost Gang, with Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, Bill Tibbets, Jim Peterson, and his brother-in-law, Tom McCarty.
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Later in 1892 Matt Warner was jailed in Ellensburg, Washington, for this robbery.
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Matt Warner shot and wounded one person, but was later exonerated of all charges.
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In 1896, in the Uinta Mountains north of Vernal, Utah, Matt Warner was involved in a gunfight where he shot and killed two men and wounded a third.
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Matt Warner was tried for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to prison for five years.
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Matt Warner was released after serving three years and four months.
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Matt Warner was elected justice of the peace and then served as a deputy sheriff.
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Matt Warner was a particularly good sheriff because he was a good shot and knew how to catch outlaws.
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Matt Warner wrote a memoir, The Last of the Bandit Riders.
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Matt Warner married and had children from the age of 25.
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Matt Warner was a widower living with his father and working as a bartender in 1900.