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===Outlaws=== The arrival of the railroad in 1879 brought with it businesses, development and new residents, both respectable and dubious. Murderers, robbers, thieves, gamblers, gunmen, swindlers, [[vagrants]], and [[tramp]]s poured in, transforming the eastern side of the settlement into a virtually lawless brawl. Among the notorious characters were such legends of the Old West as: dentist [[Doc Holliday]] and his girlfriend [[Big Nose Kate]], [[Dave Rudabaugh]], [[Jesse James]], [[Billy the Kid]], [[Wyatt Earp]], [[Mysterious Dave Mather]], [[Hoodoo Brown]], and Handsome Harry the Dancehall Rustler.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NM-LasVegas.html |title=New Mexico Legends - Las Vegas - As Wicked as Dodge City |publisher=Legends of America |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> Historian [[Ralph Emerson Twitchell]] once claimed regarding the Old West, "Without exception there was no town which harbored a more disreputable gang of desperadoes and outlaws than did Las Vegas."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edge.net/~dphillip/Outlaw.html |title=LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO - The Outlaw and a Politician |publisher=Edge.net |date=1974-08-22 |access-date=2010-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010214141/http://www.edge.net/~dphillip/Outlaw.html |archive-date=2016-10-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{wide image|Panorama of Las Vegas, New Mexico (circa 1910-1920) .jpg|900px|{{circa|1910}}β1920}}
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