Bob Dozier (died 1875) was an American outlaw and stagecoach robber who was based in the Indian Territory during the Wild West era.
Biography[]
Bob Dozier was once a deputy US Marshal, but the United States government accused him of a robbery, stripped him of his star, and lashed him to confess. Having also lost his wife Corina and daughter Annie to yellow fever, he was forced to turn to outlawry, fleeing west to the Indian Territory, where he insisted that the US government had no sovereignty. Dozier went on to lead his own gang, robbing stagecoaches and committing several other robberies. In 1875, he and his gang ambushed and killed Deputy Jim Bruce and four of his posse members when they came to his home at Spanish Fort, Texas to arrest him, and he sent Bruce's head to Fort Smith, Arkansas to warn judge Isaac Charles Parker against sending another posse. Undaunted, Parker sent Bass Reeves with Charlie Storm to apprehend Dozier. Dozier and his gang visited Muskogee after hearing that Reeves was after him, and he killed Reeves' friend Sam Sixkiller with dynamite. Reeves, Storm, and Tom Pinkerton later tracked Dozier down to Spanish Fort, where, after a shootout, Dozier fled into the woods and was shot dead by a pursuing Reeves.
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