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Fred Waite, born Frederick Tecumseh Waite (occasionally spelled Fred Wayte〔Otero, Miguel Antonio (1936) ''The Real Billy the Kid with new light on the Lincoln County War'' Rufus Rockwell Wilson, New York, p.46〕) (September 23, 1853 – September 24, 1895), was a Chickasaw cowboy who joined Billy the Kid's gang. He left the gang to return to his people. With the Chickasaw Nation, Waite served as a leading politician before his death at the age 42. He died shortly before he was to start serving as Governor of the Chickasaw. ==Early life== Fred Waite was born after Removal in the Chickasaw nation at Fort Arbuckle, in what is now Garvin County, Oklahoma. Son of Catherine McClure Waite and Thomas Fletcher Waite. The grandson of Ela Teecha "Ellen" McClure and the Rev. A.J. McClure, a missionary from England to the Chickasaws. [Shadow of an Indian Star, 2005 by Bill and Cindy Paul} Waite found work in New Mexico with John Tunstall, who was later to be one of the leaders of the Tunstall-McSween vs. Dolan war, better known as the Lincoln County War. Waite worked as a farmer for Tunstall. On February 18, 1878, after Tunstall was killed, Waite became a member of the Regulators.〔 They originally collected as a posse led by Dick Brewer to serve arrest warrants on Tunstall's killers.〔 Through the posse, Waite met Billy, American Indian Jose Chavez y Chavez, Henry Brown, Jim French, and Charlie Bowdre. They later formed what became Billy the Kid's gang. Fred Waite was allegedly behind a wall with the gang when they killed William J. Brady, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico. He was also present when the gang killed Buckshot Roberts, a suspect in the murder of Tunstall.〔Utley, Robert M. ''Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life.'' p. 71. ISBN 0-8032-9558-8〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Waite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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