Webmeet harry tracy, who went down with guns blazing in 1902. He was wildly famous in his day, much like john dillinger and bonnie and clyde were later on. Webfrom a distasteful painting that got people killed, to the unlikely location of a civil war battle, these are some of the most interesting true stories of the old west. Webwhy harry tracy isn’t recognized as the most notorious outlaw of the west is beyond us. His tale borders on pure fiction — not even very realistic fiction. Yet it’s all true. Webat the end of the wild bunch trail (where butch and sundance famously split for south america), the fort worth stockyards welcome visitors to “cowboy up” and immerse themselves in texas’s storied old west past. His real name was harry severns, but he went by and is still known today as harry tracy. To many, he was a lot. Webnevada outlaws conducted the first train robbery in the west. Just two and a half short years after the central pacific railroad arrived in reno, an engineer.