{"id":14706,"date":"2016-01-02T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14706"},"modified":"2015-12-30T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:27:20","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-an-excerpt-from-last-of-the-robbers-roost-outlaws-moabs-bill-tibbetts-part-3by-tom-mccourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/02\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-an-excerpt-from-last-of-the-robbers-roost-outlaws-moabs-bill-tibbetts-part-3by-tom-mccourt\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Dec\/Jan Zephyr) An Excerpt From \u2018LAST OF THE ROBBERS ROOST OUTLAWS: Moab\u2019s BILL TIBBETTS\u2019, PART 3\u2026By Tom McCourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indian \u201cwar\u201d of 1915 began when a San Juan County Ute, named Tse-ne-gat (meaning Crybaby, or One Who Cries a Lot), was charged with the murder of a Mexican sheepherder in Colorado. When Tse-ne-gat refused to voluntarily surrender to authorities in Utah, a rowdy and allegedly drunken civilian posse was sent to track him down. The posse was assembled in Colorado under the command of a U.S. Marshal.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado posse surrounded an Indian camp near the town of Bluff, Utah, in the early morning hours of February 20, 1915, and quickly got into a shootout with Tse-ne-gat and some of his Ute and Paiute relatives. A posse member was killed and two others wounded. One of the Indians was armed with a very modern 30-06 rifle and it took a while for the white guys to learn to fully appreciate the range and capabilities of the weapon. But the posse did a little better against the non-combatants in the Indian camp. According to newspapers, \u201ca squaw and two<br \/>\npapooses\u201d were killed in the ambush and two \u201cold warriors\u201d were captured. Tse-ne-gat and asmall group of armed and dangerous Indians escaped to the south toward Navajo Mountain. The Indian camp was burned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more from Tom McCourt, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/an-excerpt-from-last-of-the-robbers-roost-outlaws-moabs-bill-tibbetts-part-3by-tom-mccourt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/groupshot-e1449340219879.jpg\" alt=\"groupshot\" width=\"550\" height=\"578\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/an-excerpt-from-last-of-the-robbers-roost-outlaws-moabs-bill-tibbetts-part-3by-tom-mccourt\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/an-excerpt-from-last-of-the-robbers-roost-outlaws-moabs-bill-tibbetts-part-3by-tom-mccourt\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The Indian \u201cwar\u201d of 1915 began when a San Juan County Ute, named Tse-ne-gat (meaning Crybaby, or One Who Cries a Lot), was charged with the murder of a Mexican sheepherder in Colorado. When Tse-ne-gat refused to voluntarily surrender to authorities in Utah, a rowdy and allegedly drunken civilian posse was sent to track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14708,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706\/revisions\/14708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}