He was reputed to have a large nose, hence the nickname.
Big Nose and his gang enjoyed a successful career robbing freight wagons and stage coaches.
This innocuous-looking pair of shoes hides a macabre secret.
Vincent turned and tried to run but was shot next.
The Union Pacific Railroad immediately put a bounty of $10,000 on the head of Big Nose George.
This was later doubled to $20,000.
From this point onwards, John Osbornes experiments began to turn decidedly bizarre.
He first molded a death mask of Georges face using plaster of paris.
The hidewhich included Georges nippleswas to be fashioned into a pair of shoes and a medicine bag.
Carbon County Museum Director Tiffany Wilson holding the special pair of shoes.
Eventually, the whiskey barrel was buried in the yard behind Dr. Maghees office.
At his inaugural ball as the Governor in 1893, Osborn was said to have worn the notorious shoes.
A local newspaper article reports the discovery of Big Nose George Parrotts remains in 1950 in Rawlins.
Then someone remembered the skull cap Dr. Lillian Heath had kept, and sent for her.
Dr. Heath was still alive and well into her eighties when she was contacted.
Decades later, DNA testing verified the results.
The skull cap is at the Union Pacific Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
The medicine bag made from his skin was never found.
The skull of Big Nose George.
Photo credit:Scott Burgan/Flickr
Carbon County Museums redesigned exhibits about Big Nose George Parrott.
Photo credit:Carbon County Museum
Source:Wikipedia/Legends of America/WyoHistory.org
