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Submitted: 2/10/14 • Approved: 9/3/19 • Last Updated: 9/6/19 • R26306-G0-S3
US Army
Civil War Union
February 7, 1840 - August 16, 1886
He was called Prent by his family. The name was transformed into Print over the years.
Print was loyal to his family and friends, but could be a hardcase for people who crossed or stole from him. After serving in the Civil War, Print and his brothers rounded up wild longhorns and started ranching. Driving the herds north to Kansas was how Print Olive made his living. Wounding or killing rustlers was how Print protected his profit. One incident involved the death of two rustlers by the name of Turner and Crow, who were killed by a method called "death of skins", where the victim was wrapped in green cow hides and left to die of suffication as the sun dried them. The skins found on the men contained Olive's brand, and although acquitted, it was widely believed that the Olive brothers had killed these men.
In one scenario, Print's brother Bob was killed by rustlers. Somehow Print managed to get these rustlers away from the county Sheriff and lynched both. Under mysterious circumstances, the bodies were found burned. A first trial for this killing sentenced Print Olive to life in prison, but a retrial one year later freed him.
Print Olive, however, never regained his former glory and fell in with the wrong people. On one fateful day, in a dispute over money, Print Olive was killed in Trail City, Colorado.
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