Maine Sound Stories Audio Documentaries Sumner McKane

Henry Plummer left Addison, Maine, in 1852, and traveled west to make his fortune in the gold mines...
To some, he was thought of as a murderous, villainous, outlaw; yet to many, he was a trustworthy lawman, the marshal of Nevada City, California, and sheriff of Bannack, Montana.
In 1863, with the rise in murders and robberies in the gold fields of Montana, came a rise in Montana Vigilante justice, of which Henry Plummer and his supposed band of outlaws, aptly named "The Innocents", would experience first-hand on the very gallows that Plummer himself had built as Sheriff of Bannack Montana.

In 1900, Elmer McCurdy left his home in Bangor, Maine, to become a bumbling train robber in the West. His career as a criminal lasted one third the time of his career as a corpse... on the road...
Elmer's story is truly unbelievable. Just when you think Elmer can't be anymore entertaining, he gets shot in a shootout, then strangely becomes entertainment for an entire country...