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where the wild west comes alive
Matt Warner
(1864 - December 31, 1938)
Drawing by Richard Florence
Born Willard Eratus Christiansen in Ephraim, Utah to Mormon parents, he used the alias Matt Warner after he left home. Matt thought he had killed a fellow teenager and left home to become a cowboy. He fell in with rustlers and his brief career as an outlaw began.
During this time in the outlaw hideouts of Utah, Matt Warner met Butch Cassidy. With Butch and Tom McCarty, they robbed a Telluride, Colorado bank.
After several more robberies with Tom McCarty, Matt settled down on a ranch in Utah. While on a prospecting trip Matt with two other men were ambushed. In a gunfire sequence that Hollywood would love. Matt killed two and wounded a third.
After serving four years of a five-year sentence for this shootout, Matt became a justice of the peace, a deputy sheriff and a detective in Price, Utah
Matt Warner is buried in the Price Cemetery in Price, Utah.
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