The Rayles-Waugh shootout was an infamous shootout of the Wild West which took place in the Colorado resort town of Strawberry in 1898. The outlaws Cletus Rayles and Todd Waugh were tracked down to Strawberry by a band of bounty hunters led by Hampton Northup Senack, resulting in a shootout between the two parties. Deputy sheriff Bright V. Deasey led the town's response, with both lawmen and armed citizens attempting to apprehend or kill the two murderous outlaws. The outlaws engaged in a running gunfight, killing around twenty lawmen, armed citizens, and bounty hunters. The gunfighter known as the "Arizona Kid" witnessed the gunfight after coming to the town following his delivery of a stolen wagon to a local homestead, and he followed the action as a curious observer, watching as the outlaws engaged in a brave last stand. By nightfall, the two outlaws were dead in the mud, but not before humiliating the law by inflicting heavy casualties on the lawmen and bounty hunters. The locals Wells H. Laup, Tom B. Blacker, Bert V. Garman, and Ashby T. Labryer, the bounty hunters Hampton N. Senack, Richmond W. Keeton, and Isreal G. Grinell, and the lawmen Lindsay V. Tilton, Gabe S. Ellinger, Atha Z. Ludlow, Louis C. Knewdson, Leni T. Kehrt, Buril G. Fabinger, Gary J. Belgrin, Lonnie L. Stilegebouer, Artie W. Horan, Tandy E. Walcott, Harman J. Shatzell, Bright V. Deasey, Raoul N. Laufer, Bennet L. Bray, Tobias K. McIlreevey, Yee O. McAlexander, and Braxton R. Jordan were among the dead.
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