Editing Bodie (section)

==People of Bodie==
*'''Patrick Reddy''': Patrick Reddy was a Bodie lawyer. Yes, he was the one who defended the “Bad Man from Bodie”. On more than one occasion he kept supposedly guilty men from being hanged. Pat was very well known for his abilities as a lawyer, and was called upon often.
*'''Silas Smith''':  [[https://www.bodie.com/history-timeline/may-1-1877-silas-smith-opened-his-first-store/]].  Store owner and Main & King.  Dry Goods and first Post Office
*'''H.Z. Osborne''': Printed the first “Daily Free Press” newspaper in Bodie. September 6, 1879
*Reverend Hinkle – a Methodist Reverand 
*Father Cassin – a Roman Catholic priest.
*Eli Johl and wife Lottie.  Eli is a butcher at the Union Market.
*Jack Langrishe.  The Comedian of the Frontier moved around a lot.  Deadwood, SD from '76 to '79.  Leadville, Colorado for'79 &'80/'81.  <span style=color:green>''It would not be unreasonable that with the gold rush in full swing in Bodie that he might arrive in spring of '81.  PCs might help him set up in a theater.  Defend him from problems.  He went to Idaho in '85''
*Soapy Smith:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith#Denver]]  A criminal gang leader and organized crime figure.  Conman. <span style=color:green>''Based in Denver his con activities might bring some of his antics to Bodie''
*[[File:Docskurloc.jpg|75 px]]Doc Scurlock:  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Scurlock]]

Rode with Billy the Kid.  Left Arizona in 1879 for Texas where he lived out his life till 1929.   
<span style=color:green>''He could have wandered to Bodie.  School Teacher?  Writer of letters for the general illiterate public.  He is killed in Young Guns but most sources say he lived till 1929.  He left Arizona in 1879 for Texas so he could have spent a few years in the 1880s in Bodie before going to Texas.''
*[[File:Davemathercard1.jpg|75 px]] [[Mysterious Dave Mather]].[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Dave_Mather]] 

**January 22, 1880, while serving as assistant marshal. He and his boss, Marshal Joe Carson, became involved in a shootout with four men at Close & Patterson's Variety Hall.
**Deputy US Marshal-East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory-1879 through mid 1880. 
**Legal troubles in Texas involving petty theft and a brothel that might have more to the story.  Acquitted on all charges.  
 
<span style=color:green>''All kinds of possibilities.  Come to Bodie hunting bad men?  Hunting PCs? Posted as temporary US. Marshal. East Las Vegas is a long way from Bodie but he is mysterious for a reason.''

===notes===
*Moses Ehrich[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Ehrich]] 
New York fence.  Involved in a diamond theft 1875.  Dissappeared.
*Bloody Benders.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders]]  <span style=color:green>  Kate Blender as a spiritualist in Bodie that PCs discover the true identity of.
*William Sharkey [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Sharkey_(murderer)]].  Corrupt politician, gang leader.  Tammany connections.  Escaped New York under death sentence, 1873.  Thought to have traveled to Cuba and eventually South America.  <span style=color:green> Recruiter for South American military?  possible bodie politician?
*[[File:Rufus ingram.jpg|100 px]] Rufus Henry Ingram[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Henry_Ingram]] 

Confederate raider in California.  July 15, an attempt by Ingram to rob the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine payroll failed.  Never heard of again.  <span style=color:green> By 1880s could be a gang leader of train robbers, etc.
*Michael O'Rourke [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Rourke_(gambler)]]
*HooDoo Brown.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_Brown]] Justice of the Peace. Gang leader and Coroner for Dodge City, '79-80. 

He was hunting American bison and hauling lumber in 1872. At the time, he was known to be a small-time gambler and confidence trickster. He eventually went to Colorado, working in silver mines with a friend. Hoodoo and his friend ended up in Mexico to form an opera company.  

When Hoodoo arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico, he found it was developing a reputation as a lawless place, filled with outlaws, confidence tricksters, murderers and thieves. His displeasure with this led to his election as Justice of the Peace for East Las Vegas. He also served as coroner and mayor of the town, and recruited several former gunfighters from Kansas to form a police force. However, the force was as lawless as the criminals they were supposed to be policing. Called the "Dodge City Gang", the force included J. J. Webb as the town marshal, Mysterious Dave Mather, Joe Carson, "Dutchy" Schunderberger and Dave Rudabaugh.  Ousted in summer 1880.

**Dodge City Gang.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City_Gang]].  Stories vary but Hoodoo ran the gang as Justice of the Peace and Coroner and may have done run the group to control gambling while elements like Dave Rudabaugh and others may have been robbing stagecoaches and theiving.
*Procopio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopio]].  California mexican bandit
*John Joshua Webb. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joshua_Webb]]  Member of the Dodge City Gang
*[[Charles Edwin Loose]]: Banker, Miner