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Jorge Montez

Jorge Montez (1854-1898) was a Mexican outlaw who served as a co-leader of the Del Lobo Gang of the American Southwest during the Wild West. He was tracked down by US Marshal Tom Davies' posse and killed in a shootout at Swadbass Point, Texas in 1898.

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Jorge Montez was born in Mexico in 1854, the younger brother of Alfredo Montez and the cousin of Carmella Montez. His family became the leaders of the predominantly-Mexican Del Lobo Gang of the Wild West, terrorizing the Anglo-American settler families of the Southwest and becoming known as the most fearsome gang in the region. In 1898, US Marshal Tom Davies assembled a posse and set out to track down Alfredo Montez, who was wanted for the murder of a family near Thieves' Landing, but the bounty hunters Lee Johansen, the Arizona Kid, and Clara Blaycock tracked down Jorge instead, finding him in a cabin at Swadbass Point at the Aurora Basin. Jorge Montez was killed in the ensuing shootout and his severed head brought back to Manzanita Post for verification by Davies, who was dismayed to find that his associates had killed Alfredo's brother instead, but still paid them for killing a co-leader of the gang.

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