Category:Shadow Wolf Pack

The Shadow Wolf Pack was an outlaw gang of the old West, which operated during the 1870s into the early-1880s.

The gang was organized by outlaw Eliseo "Shadow Wolf" Ventura, in Ford County, Kansas. From its beginning, the gang primarily committed acts of robbery and cattle rustling. Ventura claimed the Pack made every attempt to abstain from killing people, and boasted of having never killed a single man or woman in his entire career. These claims were false, however. Francisco Esquivar, Reginald de la Cloche, Booker Angelino, and other members of the gang killed numerous people. After an encounter with the law in Dodge City, Kansas, Shadow Wolf Pack was forced to escape to Arizona Territory in October 1879.

For a while, the Pack was closely associated with outlaws Henry and Lem Redfield, whose ranch near Redington supplied the gang often with fresh horses and beef. When the Kinnear & Co. stage was robbed just outside of Tombstone one evening in March of 1881, resulting in the death of two aboard, Wyatt Earp led a posse in pursuit of the perpetrators. The trail led to the Redfield Ranch, where Ventura allowed himself to be arrested to allow the rest of the gang time to escape. Due to the Pack 's close relationship with Marshal Jonah Cummings, Ventura only served a few days of his sentence.

This close call, however, prompted a number of changes to Shadow Wolf Pack. Eliseo Ventura ventured to his native Mexico seeking treatment to a sore throat and rash he picked up while in the Yuma Territorial Prison. In his absence, the fabled mantle of "Shadow Wolf" was transferred to a new member of the gang. Finally, the Pack dissolved their association with the Redfields -- though they continued to use Redington as a base of operations.

Below, find a list of characters who claimed to be members of Shadow Wolf Pack.