Retirement From Crime
Upon his release he found his way to Baggs, Wyoming, a small ranch town just north of the Colorado border. There he worked as an oil explorer and saloon owner without much success. There he met and married Mary Calvert. He and Mary then moved to Southern California where he supervised the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct system in Riverside and Imperial Valley just north of the border with Mexico. He and Mary raised two children, a son and a daughter.
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