Keagan Beegan
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Keagan Beegan
Description
There’s nothing remarkable about Keagan. He’s always been a particularly uninteresting man. His face has been beaten by the sun’s harsh light and his complexion is reddened from its exposure. He's got a faded scar from a cavalry saber down his forehead to the top of the bridge of his nose. An ordeal in Louisiana out in Lawson County sent Keagan, penniless, stuffed into a steamboat bound for New Alexandria, St. Denis.
Early Life
Not much is known about Keagan Beegan’s youth. His records in New Haven Hospital have him documented as the son of Marcus Beegan and Liza Beegan. His father was a respected machinist and his mother a school teacher at an elementary school. It appears that Keagan Beegan was an only child. Keagan was listed as a groundskeeper for the City of New Haven at Wildman’s Park in 1894. At some point in 1895 Keagan moved away from his parents to live with his cousins in Tennessee.
“The Don-Barry Gang”
In 1895 Keagan Beegan was wanted for less than a month as a member of the Don-Barry Gang, which was a notorious gang operating out of Beargrass Creek in Kentucky. They were famed for their last stand in northern Mississippi against lawmen which allegedly lasted three days. Keagan Beegan was pardoned shortly thereafter in a court of law as he was found to: "...undeniably, not have participated in any of the crimes conducted by the gang..." It was also stated he was not actually involved in the final shootout of the gang.
Present Life
"Louisiana, 1896 - 1898"
"In ‘96? it was a tumultuous time, we got to Stillwater via flatboat under nightfall. That previous day we talked with a man named Samson back in New Orleans, who gave us our first quarry. I never did bounty hunting work before that day, but I don't think bounty hunting is necessarily how I would describe that profession in that place, in that time." - Keagan Beegan, March 18th, 1903
Interview with Jake Hodge concerning the state of Lawson County
Interviewer: J. Dillard
Undated
Typewritten, questions omitted (...), 8.5”x 11”
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“A cruel mockery of what the land might have looked like before; that virulent plague swept through with such a force I had never seen before, nor read about in any book, nor heard about in any lecture. Even with such a pestilence, it did not seem to concern those hunters. Day in and day out they would return with a new corpse or something hellish they had plucked from the quarantine zones. The land now void of good morals proved to be a haven to the insane and wretched, criminals and bandits who may have at one point been sentenced to death found their new stomping grounds within the corrupted and vile Lawson County.”
Interview with Eugen Lamoreux regarding ‘the Hunt’
Interviewer: J. Dillard
Undated
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“As the money rolled in, the competition became fiercer. Friendly rivalries become outright firefights. We all wanted a piece of it.. I punched a hole through a man’s head last week while lurking around the prison, the coward. Before you ask another question, let me elaborate. The nature of the work was violent. Violent and fervent, the way it should be. Clarence was another man who believed that he was just going to wander into the bayou and leave a rich man, with hundreds of dollars on the back of a dead bastard. No goddamn way. When I got to him, I saw that virus got to him first, I laughed outwardly at him and with knuckle-dusters sent a punch towards his head that soared right through his squalid flesh...”
Nobody knew about the things he’d done. At least, the Government didn’t. And they’d never find out either. Keagan and his trio were a violent group of Bounty Hunters out Louisiana-way over the years of 1896 to 1898. Keagan lost count of the men he’d shot or stabbed dead. Such extreme violence in such a short amount of time had dulled his reaction to death entirely. The only reason these killings didn’t break his psyche was the exhilarating rush he got hunting bounties across the state. Life itself was little more than gambling now.
In 1897, Keagan earned the local newspaper coined moniker, “The Haybale Cowboy'', for a recorded gunfight at Donnol Ranch, wherein Keagan himself stabbed and killed two outlaws with a pitchfork inside the family’s barn.
Clipping from the New Orleans Full Moon
Authors: Unknown
Newsprint, variable sizes
March 29th, 1897
(1) THE HAYBALE COWBOY. - The former pastoral ranch in Stillwater has been razed to the ground in a feverish gunfight between six combatants. On one side; Sir Dietrich Hedrick, Carmine Whitby, and Keagan Beegan. Within the ranch itself; Virginia McCoy, Olga Petroff, and Iwona Jaworski. The gunbattle began with a series of upheaving explosions, with dynamite bundles and lit kerosene jugs tossed through open shutters and into the barn. The barn, having been derelict for a little over a year since the plague continues to wreak havoc through the once quiet bayou, was filled with large quantities of hay which proved the most excellent accelerant.
(2) Member of editorial staff Irene Holland interviewed Carmine Whitby between drinks, in which he had said, “Death comes ripping.” His following statements are not quoted verbatim. “I caught a stray round in my side, and collapsed onto the muddy ground. When I mustered enough strength to rise, I watched that yankee let that little russian 1895 Nagant sing. He let soar all seven rounds into that Iwona woman. Before he clambered over a fence and disappeared into the barn.”
(3) Sir Dietrich Hedrick who was clearing out the connected stable-building, met Keagan Beegan inside the barn and said what followed: “We cleared the connector room and entered into the barn. Keagan ripped a pitchfork off the wall and said to me, (These two) ‘..are hiding in here like rats.’ And without another word he couched the pitchfork under his arm and sprinted deep into the smokey barn. I heard enough to know I did not need to follow him, and went to tend to Carmine who was bleeding outside. Soon though, he came out of the barn some time later with that same pitchfork drenched from prong to handle in blood. I remarked jokingly to him that ‘the haybales are in there cowboy.’ And he repeated the phrase back to me for some time until we left the swamp.”
However, in late 1898 Keagan would be smuggled out of Louisiana by friends for his actions in a gunfight that occurred at Booker & Cooper Brickworks involving Keagan Beegan, Reverend Otto Hohner, Seo-Yun Na, Morgan Crysell, Willis Gaines, and Nelson Peck.
Unpublished novel, "Memoirs of a Deputy"
Author: Daniel Ganwell
May 21st, 1899
Bleached paper, typewritten, 8.5x11 in
On July 11th, 1898, at, or around 7:58 pm, members of the Thunder Hogs Posse: Keagan Beegan, Reverend Otto Hohner, Seo-Yun Na, arrived at Booker & Cooper Brickworks in search of the lawless and dangerous criminal known as Wilbert Vogel. Vogel was alerted to the posse’s presence at around 8:01 pm where he proceeded to engage the trio for roughly half an hour, Vogel’s left arm was destroyed by fire, and he was shot an estimated seven times before he was killed. The Thunder Hogs Posse remained unscathed aside from a few scrapes and bruises. Roughly around 8:44 pm the Lawson Protection Agency, the L.P.A., arrived at Booker & Cooper Brickworks headed by former Sheriff Morgan Crysell, followed by Willis Gaines and Nelson Peck, both also former deputies. It’s disputed how the following gunfight at Booker & Cooper Brickworks began but what is undeniably known is that the three present members of the L.P.A. were shot down. Vogel’s body was recovered by the law two days afterwards, on July 13th which is when deputies of Dewitt County also found the corpses of Morgan Crysell, who was shot only twice, once in the right hip and another time in the head. Willis Gaines was astonishingly shot with a bow and arrow through the neck. Nelson Peck had a record forty-eight gunshot wounds from his lower-left torso all the way to the top of his forehead. The only evidence of the Thunder Hogs Posse that were found was over two hundred rounds of spent ammunition across the compound.
Seo-Yun Na was arrested on November 23rd, 1898 in Pearl River County, Mississippi for public intoxication. She was expedited back to Louisiana authorities when she was recognized by Marshal Jacob Poplar. She was unable to comment on the gunbattle at Booker & Cooper Brickworks since she did not speak any English. She is held under lock and key to this day in Orleans Parish Prison for a collection of previous crimes in both the States of Louisiana and Mississippi. Nobody has seen or heard from either Reverend Otto Hohner or Keagan Beegan for years.
"From New Alexandria With Love"
Keagan arrived to the State of New Alexandria in February of 1903. Keagan arrived in St. Denis by boat. He arrived with no extra pairs of clothes, no horse, and none of his guns. Keagan rented a canoe from St. Denis and rowed from the Lannahechee River across Flat Iron Lake, and up the Dakota River, where he lost the canoe on a sandbar, and proceeded on foot up to Diablo Ridge where he met long time associate and friend Dietrich Hedrick.
Affiliations
Friend and coworker of several years, Dietrich Hedrick.
Quotes
"Ain't that the truth."
"We die alone, but we live among men."
"I have no eyes to see nor tongue to speak."
"Drunk speech is sober thoughts."
"You weren't born in Lemoyne, but you'll die in Lemoyne!"
"You ever seen a man die to a gut-shot? It's real nasty!"
Trivia
● Formerly wanted in Louisiana for the Murder of Morgan Crysell.
● Writes in his spare time.
● Keagan infamously dual-wielded Cattleman Revolver's during his time as a bounty hunter. Aside from one specific time with a Lancaster Repeater where he killed four men in a flanking maneuver near or around Roche Slaughterhouse in Stillwater.
● Openly gregarious.
● Probably suffering from a Napoleon Complex.
● Rise up, dead man.
● 'Single-handedly' culling the big cat population of Lemoyne.
Keagan Beegan
Information
Status:
Alive
Gender:
Male
Age:
25
Height:
5'4"
Weight:
141lbs
Birthdate:
September 21st, 1878
Birthplace:
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Nationality:
American
Marital Status:
Single
Relatives:
Father: Marcus Beegan (Deceased)
Mother: Liza Beegan
Occupation:
Bounty Hunter (Formerly)
Stagecoach Shotgunner (Formerly)
Hunter & Fur Trapper (Formerly)
Gunfighter
Aliases:
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‘The Haybale Cowboy’
‘The Yankee’
‘Rueben Ham’
‘Sherman Murphy’
‘Joseph Equity’
Faction Affiliations:
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D&K Overland Despatch (Formerly)