Name: Gunfight in Oregon | (Part 1)
Uploaded: 2023-06-04T17:54:20.000Z
Duration: 52
Description: Hank Vaughan, full name Henry Clay Vaughan, was born in 1849 in Missouri and died in 1893 in Pendleton, Oregon. He was a rather small in stature (by some...

Hank Vaughan, full name Henry Clay Vaughan, was born in 1849 in Missouri and died in 1893 in Pendleton, Oregon. He was a rather small in stature (by some reports as small as 5'2") and wild in character. He served an 8 year term in the Oregon penitentiary for killing a sheriff's deputy, married the sister of the infamous McCarty gang, lived through dozens of fun fights, and rustled thousands of stolen cattle and horse through Oregon and Washington into Idaho. The Skovlin's wrote a book about him titled "Hank Vaughan (1849-1893): A Hell-Raising Horse Trader of the Bunchgrass Territory."

This is part 1 of 3 about the shootout between Hank Vaughan and a man named Charlie Long in Prineville, Oregon in 1881. Hank was an outlaw in his own right, albiet a widely known character in Oregon. He was pardoned by the Oregon governor at least once, fought a bear, bought, bread and sold monkeys in the wild west, and lived hard driving, hard drinking kind of life.

Now who was Charlie Long?? There isn't s lot of information out there on this man. He was rough, sure. But the his identity is still mysterious. Some have wrongly asserted he was a man who died in 1895 in Washington, but we have evidence otherwise.

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