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Young Rustler

Mose Dedrick and a friend, Della Williams, 1898

Mose Dedrick, the youngest of the Dedrick brothers was born somewhere in Kansas in 1860. He worked both at his eldest brother Dan's ranch at Bosque Grande and at his older brother Sam's livery stable at White Oaks. He also rode in the Rustlers and was a good friend of Billy the Kid. He was captured by a White Oaks posse along with fellow Rustler W. J. Lamper shortly before the killing of Deputy Jim Carlyle. Mose was soon released and he and his brothers fled to Socorro County, New Mexico. After that, he and his brother Sam went to Arizona. Mose was shot by a .44 caliber rifle from ambush a few miles from Phoenix, Arizona in 1909.