Alfredo Montez (1850-1898) was a Mexican outlaw and the leader of the feared Del Lobo Gang of the Wild West.
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Alfredo Montez was born in Mexico in 1850, the brother of Jorge Montez and the cousin of Carmela Montez. He and his family became notorious cross-border outlaws who were wanted in both Mexico and the United States (specifically in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Arkansas), leading the predominantly Mexican Del Lobo Gang in a reign of terror in the American Southwest during the 1890s. In 1898, after murdering a family near Thieves' Landing, Texas, Montez was wanted by the US Marshals, and Marshal Tom Davies was sent to hunt him down. Davies' posse accidentally killed Jorge while attempting to track down Alfredo at Swadbass Point in the Tall Trees region of East Texas, but they eventually caught up to Montez in Arkansas after a shootout in Van Horn. The Arizona Kid and Iron-Sights Jones captured Montez after intercepting his convoy along the Arkansas River, and Montez was taken to Emerald Ranch and then to the jail in Valentine, Nebraska, where the law hoped that he would be far from his gang's reaches. When news spread that the Del Lobos intended to raid Valentine to free Montez, Davies summarily executed Montez in his cell to prevent him from escaping.
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