The Gopher Gang was an early 20th-century New York street gang who counted among its members Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden, born...
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Look up Gopher, gopher, or gophers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gopher, also known as a "pocket gopher" (family Geomyidae), is a burrowing rodent...
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The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang, initially of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York...
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Hell-Cat Maggie (category Gang members of New York City)
Mag and Battle Annie, the latter leading the female auxiliary of the Gopher Gang during the 1870s. A composite character based on Hell-Cat Maggie, Sadie...
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Owney Madden (category Gang members of New York City)
Gopher Gang. After serving seven years of a 10-to-20-year sentence for Moore's manslaughter, Madden was released on parole in 1923. The Gopher Gang had...
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Annie Walsh (category Gang members of New York City)
the pseudonym Battle Annie, was an American outlaw and member of the Gopher Gang. A well-known outlaw figure described in the press as "The Queen of Hell's...
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List of criminal organizations in New York City (category Gangs in New York City)
City Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang (1866-1876) Hudson...
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Bottoms Gang 19th Street Gang Bowe Brothers 40 Thieves Dead Rabbits Gopher Gang Grady Gang Five Points Gang Daybreak Boys Tenth Avenue Gang Kerryonians...
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identities referenced in Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York including underworld figures, gang members, crime fighters and others of the Old New...
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Irish Mob (redirect from Irish Gang Wars)
during the early 1900s, strongly rivaled by the Hudson Dusters, the Gopher Gang, and others during the period. In the early 1900s, with Italian criminal...
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