From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   GTT wrote:   
   > I've just bought a book "Bravo on the Brazos" about a feller named Larn.   
   > The setting is apparently Ft. Griffin, Texas, one of the buffalo wallers and   
   > gathering place for buffalo hunters and buyers.   
   >   
   > Larn is a story of a gunfighter/sheriff/thief who married into a prominent   
   > family but suffered a "sudden" change of heart about the whole thing.   
   >   
   > Can't start it for awhile, but is this name familiar to anyone else around   
   > here.   
   >   
   > (Is there anyone else around here?  Beginning to wonder.)   
      
   Well, poking around the Web finds:   
      
   On a geneology family site:   
      
         C.  Mary Jane Matthews married (1) John M. Larn, (2) Rev.   
   JohnBrown. John M. Larn was a cattle rustler and horse thief, he was   
   killed 22 June 1878 in the Albany, Texas jail by a vigilante committe,   
   believed to be led by one of his Reynolds brothers-in-law.61  John   
   Brown was a Presbyterian minister in Albany and later Fall River,   
   Massachusetts.   
      
   And, in the Ft. Griffin Cemetary on a ranch near Albany:   
      
   1. Outlaw Bill Henderson Killed by Sheriff John Larn April 1876   
   2. Outlaw Charlie (Doc) Mc Bride also killed by Sheriff John Larn,   
   April, 1876   
      
   And, from a review of A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort   
   Griffin, 1849-1887   
      
   "Dr. Cashion writes with equal and obvious passion of the rawboned   
   hunters and cattlemen, the violent sometimes gunmen like John Larn..."   
      
      
   And, from a piece about the first registered Herfords in Texas: "John   
   Larn of Ft. Griffin appears in the Herd Book as the owner of Fremont   
   760, bred by Miller. This bull was calved May 23, 1875, and probably was   
   taken to Texas the same time the Reynolds Bros. bull was."   
      
   And, from a piece about John Selman: "In the mid-1870s the Selmans moved   
   to Fort Griffin, Texas, where John became a deputy for Shackelford   
   County sheriff John M. Larn. The two controlled the vigilantes, rustled   
   cattle, and at times terrorized the county, until the vigilantes locked   
   Larn in his own jail and shot him to death."   
      
      
   Seems all of a piece with the character of Ft. Griffin and any number of   
   famous and not so famous folks who walked both sides of the law there.   
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
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