Tom McCarty was born around 1855 and grew up in Utah. He began his outlaw life at an early age but finally settled down in Montana where he worked as a sheepherder. McCarty died in a gunfight in Bitteroot County around 1900.
The Tom McCarty autobiography (1890s) consist of an account of McCarty's "latest exploits as related by himself." He describes his adventures in great detail, although people and places are often referred to only by initials. Most of the adventures are told with a sense of humor and irony and evoke positive feelings, even admiration, for the author's intelligence and cunning, as well as for his openess and lack of meaness. In one adventure, McCarty tells of a journey to Kentucky to evade capture and buy horses that later proved instrumental in other numerous escapes.
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