Title: Donald Paine Collection of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan

Date/Date Range :   1897-2000

Extent: 1.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of Paine's research materials that trace the history of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, famed bank and train robber and associate of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, through his crimes and trials across the country in the early 20th century.

Call number: MS-2778

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection was donated to Special Collections.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Donald Paine Collection of Harvey Kid Curry Logan, MS-2778. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of 51 folders.

Donald F. Paine graduated from The University of Tennessee in 1963 (B.A.,M.A.,LL.B.). Thereafter he served three years in the Army. He was the original author of Tennessee Law of Evidence, and he writes a monthly column for the Tennessee Bar Journal. Mr. Paine lectures for the Tennessee Law Institute, BAR/BRI Bar Review, The Tennessee Judicial Conference, and The University of Tennessee College of Law. He is Reporter to the Supreme Court Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure. In 1983 he was President of the Knoxville Bar Association and in 1986-87 President of the Tennessee Bar Association. Mr. Paine was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan was an outlaw associated with Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longabaugh). After the latter two fled to South America, Logan and others in 1901 robbed a train in Montana of around $40,000 in federal banknotes. Logan's flight brought him to Knoxville, Tenn., where he shot and seriously wounded two police officers trying to quell a saloon brawl. In 1902 he was tried in federal court and convicted of stealing and forging and passing the federal banknotes; his sentence after appeal was twenty years. Just before the date for transport to the federal penitentiary in 1903, Logan escaped from the Knox County jail on the sheriff's horse and disappeared. After a botched 1904 train holdup in Parachute, Colorado, he was surrounded and committed suicide rather than be captured.

This collection consists of Paine's research materials that trace the history of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, famed bank and train robber and associate of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, through his crimes and trials across the country in the early 20th century. Paine's research materials trace Harvey Logan's actions through Montana with information from the Montana Historical Society in Folders 30 and 31. The collection also consists of Logan's time in Knoxville, found in Folders 13-16. Several copies of newspapers are also in the collection.

For more collections of Paine's historcal/legal researach, see MS-2640, MS-2708, and MS-2745.

• Logan, Harvey, ca. 1867-ca. 1910.
• Logan, Harvey, ca. 1867-ca. 1910 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
• Trials (Robbery) -- Tennessee -- Knoxville -- History -- 20th century.
• Train robberies.
• Outlaws.