My great-grandfather, Benjamin Meriwether Snead, lived from 1847 until 1899. He fought in the Civil War, even though he was too young, and then later rode with Quantrell's Raiders, which included Frank and Jesse James, in Kansas and Texas. All-in-all, Ben hung out with some pretty unsavory characters. Eventually Ben, along with his brother Thomas, settled in Indian Territory, near what is now Ft. Towson, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where Ben married Amanda, a full-blood Choctaw. My grandfather Ed Snead (1887-1974) was one of their children. One day when Ed was a little boy, all the adults were working out in the fields when a woman outlaw rode up to the house and asked the children, "Where's Ben?" When they told her, she felt sorry for the little Indian kids left to their own devices while the adults worked, so she decided to cook something for them. What impressed my grandfather most was that before she started to cook, she took out a knife and very carefully cleaned the dirt from underneath her fingernails. She then prepared "a fine pan of biscuits." If my grandfather was a "little boy", but old enough to remember the details, this probably took place sometime between 1891 and 1900. I thought my grandfather told me the woman was Belle Starr, but when I looked up bio information on her, the dates didn't fit. I don't remember now what the dates for Belle were, but I think she was dead before this (where's my Oklahoma history book when I need it?) My mother thinks he might have said it was someone who was "as notorious as Belle Starr." Do you know who our woman outlaw was? Beverly Brown, missbev@theshop.net, www.theshop.net/missbev/sitemap.html B.r.a.c.k.e.t.t B.r.o.w.n B.r.u.n.e.r B.u.r.k.s H.a.r.r.i.s R.o.s.e S.i.s.s.o.n S.n.e.a.d S.w.o.p.e T.h.o.m.p.s.o.n T.i.l.l.m.a.n T.y.l.e.r W.e.s.t W.h.i.t.f.i.e.l.d Y.a.t.e.s