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| Name |
FLAGG, Oscar Hite |
| Born |
Feb 1860 |
West VIrginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Verdi, Nevada |
| Person ID |
I2073 |
Connecticut Spangs |
| Last Modified |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Family |
SPANG, Maria Imogene, b. 28 Feb 1858, Colusa, California , d. 14 Oct 1937, Milford, UT (Age 79 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1890 |
| Children |
| | 1. FLAGG, Bertie, b. Oct 1887, Wyoming |
| | 2. FLAGG, George Oscar Hamilton Hite, b. 04 Dec 1891, Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming , d. 29 Oct 1970 (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. FLAGG, Walter B., b. Feb 1894, Wyoming |
| | 4. FLAGG, Harry L., b. Jan 1896, Wyoming |
| | 5. FLAGG, Virginia, b. Dec 1898, Wyoming |
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| Last Modified |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Family ID |
F184 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- THE PASSING OF ?JACK? FLAGG
Oscar H. Flagg, better known as 'Jack' to his friends and associates in Wyoming, passed away
recently, at Verdi, Nevada, with no particulars of his death given.
Jack Flagg was a prominent figure in Wyoming during the "Cattlemen?s Invasion of 1892" and for
many years afterward. Had it not been for his particular personal courage and bravery at the "Kaycee
Fight" the history of Wyoming might have been considerably changed. At that time he was the chosen
leader and spokesman for the settlers (or so-called "rustlers") and the citizens of Johnson County
through the columns of the "People?s Voice" at the time of the "Johnson County War".
Before this critical period in the history of our county and state Jack Flagg lived on the Red Fork of
Powder River where he had a small ranch and a few head of stock, but after the "Kaycee Fight"
despairing of his life, he moved his family to Buffalo and became editor and manager of the "People?s
Voice". Which later became the "Buffalo Voice".
The name "rustler" was synonymous with "settler" in the days when Jack Flagg was in his prime. This
country for many years was practically controlled by the big syndicates of England and Wyoming Cattle
capitalists who resented the advent and encroachment of the settler whom they considered an intrusion
upon the privileged rights of a few. Taking the government control in their own hands they decided to
kill and drive the settler out of the country. History records their humiliating defeat and the active part
taken by Flagg, being a settler and a menace to the activities of the private interests was branded a
"rustler" and later was called the "king of the rustlers".
Wyoming owes a great deal to the memory of 'Jack' Flagg for his own courageous spirit and his
mighty and fearless pen, in defending an invaded country. He aided materially in changing Wyoming
from a vast cow country held alone for private gain to the wonderfully developed and great Wyoming
today. Had Jack Flagg shown a flash of cowardice at the ?Kaycee Fight? and surrendered to the enemy,
it might have changed the status of this whole country and it might still be submitted to the rule of a few
privileged rich.
Oscar H. Flagg was born and reared in Virginia, descendant of Robert E. Lee, Confederate Civil War
General, a graduate of Columbia University of that state, moved from there to Texas and on to
Wyoming to punch cows for the big cattle outfits, later owned a ranch and became a settler. He was a
man of unusual education, with a keen and scintillating pen and mind.
Flagg, the "King of the Rustlers" has gone to meet the "Eternal Judge of the Living and the Dead" and
we must leave him in the trust of God to be judged as we all must be judged, while Time the great
leveler smoothes the angry passions of men, wipes away with a skillful touch old hatreds and old
resentments, leaving no scars for the coming generations.
Jack Flagg is dead.
Living he "painted the Thing as he saw it for the God of Things as they are.
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