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where the wild west comes alive
Joseph 'Rowdy Joe' Lowe
(1845 (?) - February, 1899)
Drawing by Richard Florence .
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Joe Lowe and his wife Kate wandered into Kansas
from Illinois where they set up a combination saloon-brothel in West Wichita, Kansas. Following the boom railroad towns
they opened similar establishments in Ellsworth and Newton, Kansas.
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- There is a biography written about Joe Lowe that I read and must have lent out, but can not find.
Almost any book about Kansas ruffians will have some information on Joe Lowe.
Joe shot and killed a man in Newton and fled custody after killing another in Wichita. He wandered through Texas and finally 'settled' in Denver, Colorado.
It was here while drunk and belligerent that he insulted a local police officer. As tempers flared both men went for their guns and Joe was shot dead.
Joe Lowe is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.
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