In my opinion, this one is so very obvious. I totally stand behind this photo. Definitely Fred Waite All Day Long????
Fred Waite comes in with a very high Face Recognition Matching Score of 88%. With all my photos, If you are not satisfied.
See Fred Waite's history at bottom of this page. "Very, Rare Piece Of History". I inherited a collection of western outlaw photos that he bought way back in 1968 when the getting was still very good.
As well, I have been collecting Western outlaw and Sherrif original photos for awhile myself. It's time for me to start letting go of some very Excellent western outlaw, and Sheriff photo images.
Mine are the real deal. I expect to get a few naysayers. I do not have a problem with that. We all see through different eyes.
Note: I try to add face recognition similarities to help ease your mind. But I have found sometimes, depending on the photos angle, poor scratched photos, and other variables, can sometimes indeed lessen the face match score. But it does not make it necessarily not authentic. I will be listing more great western photos soon. Stay Tuned, and save me on your favorite sellers list.See my other new images just listed. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 inch tintype image.
Some mild surface wear to be expected. But you can see that this image is still in wonderful condition for its age. Please, look at all photographs for they are part of the description. Please, look at my other western photos now being listed for next few days. This article is about the American cowboy.
For other uses, see Fred Waite (disambiguation). Frederick Tecumseh "Dash" Waite, occasionally spelled Fred Wayte[1] (September 23, 1853 - September 24, 1895) (Chickasaw) was noted for a period when he was a cowboy in New Mexico and a member of Billy the Kid's gang. He was also known for later serving as a legislator in the Chickasaw Nation government, and as its Attorney General. Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory, United States.
September 24, 1895 (aged 42). Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, United States. As a young man, Waite left Indian Territory to work as a cowboy in the New Mexico Territory.
While working for John Tunstall as a ranch hand, he met Bill Bonney and several other men. After Tunstall was killed in the Lincoln County War, Bonney, Waite and the others pursued Tunstall's killers as vigilantes, calling themselves the Regulators. As they turned to criminal activities, they became known as the Billy the Kid gang.
He married, became a rancher, and started a family. He lived a law-abiding life thereafter and became involved in Choctaw and Chickasaw politics. He was elected to the Chickasaw legislature both as a representative and as a senator. When serving as a representative, he was elected for three sessions as Speaker of the House.
He was appointed by the council and chief as Attorney General of the Chickasaw Nation. He died of rheumatism at the age of 42. Fred Waite's middle name of Tecumseh was after a prominent Native leader. He was born in the Chickasaw Nation at Fort Arbuckle, in what is now Garvin County, Oklahoma.
He was the son of Catherine (née McClure) Waite and Thomas Fletcher Waite. His father was a farmer who also operated a trading store and stage stop southeast of Pauls Valley in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.
His mother was mixed race (as was he and his siblings) and his maternal grandparents were Ela "Ellen" Teecha (Chickasaw) and the Rev. McClure, an English missionary who immigrated to the Nation to serve the Chickasaw.
The missionary met and married Ela Teecha after he arrived in the Chickasaw nation. During the Civil War, the Waite family supported the Union. They were pursued by Confederate soldiers as the conflict reached the Nation, and fled to the Sac and Fox reservation in Kansas, which supported the Union. Reportedly, Fred was sent to school first at the Illinois Industrial University, for education in European-American ways.
Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from Mound City Commercial College in 1874. He also managed a crew of thirty ranch hands who were looking after about a thousand head of cattle. As Fred grew older, he decided to become a cowboy. He left home in 1875, intending to go to Colorado.He wound up in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where he got a job as a ranch hand with John Chisum in 1877. [3] 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. Waite worked as a farmer for Tunstall.
On February 18, 1878, after Tunstall was killed, Waite became a member of the Regulators. [1] They originally collected as a posse led by Dick Brewer to serve arrest warrants on Tunstall's killers. [1] Through the posse, Waite met Billy Bonney, Jose Chavez y Chavez (American Indian), Henry Brown, Jim French, and Charlie Bowdre. They later formed what became known as Billy the Kid's gang, led by Bonney. The gang came into conflict with law enforcement and also attacked a suspect in Tunstall's murder.
Waite was allegedly behind a wall with the gang when they killed William J. Brady, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico. He was also present when the gang killed Buckshot Roberts, a suspect in the murder of Tunstall.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 Waite headed back to Indian Territory. He settled in the Washita Valley.
Thompson on December 1, 1881, moved to the Chickasaw Nation, and started a family. Determined to turn his life around, Waite tried several different occupations. First, he began ranching, then he worked as a lawman for the U.
They had jurisdiction for certain crimes under federal law. Waite became involved in tribal politics. He became a delegate to an inter-tribal conference. He was elected as a representative from his home district, and then as a senator in the Chickasaw government. It had two houses for its legislature. While serving as representative, he was elected by other members as Speaker of the House for three sessions. After that he was appointed by the chief as Attorney General of the Chickasaw Nation.While in this position, he died of rheumatism on September 24, 1895.