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	Bill Miner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bill Miner was born in 1847 in Bowling Green, KY. His birth name was McDonald.
		On December 15, 1881, Miner was convicted of robbery and this time received a sentence of 25 years at San Quentin due to his prior convictions.
		Miner thought he was dead, so he and Hoehn took off without any loot.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/BMiner.htm (1921 words)

	The Legend of the Blue Mist
		A doctor examined Bill and stated that of all the insane people he had seen in his life, that Bill was the worst that he had ever be exposed to.
		Bill continued to live in his cabins, which he named "Snowshoe" and "Hackmandy" until about 1930 when he was forced off the mining claim and into Estes Park by an attorney of the United States.
		Bill had the habit of talking to himself in public which frightened many people; a habit that many people who are merely lonely have developed.
	sangre-de-cristo.com /estespark/stories/BLUEMIST.htm (997 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bill Miner (William A. Miner) - subject of the movie The Grey Fox, and originator of that famous phrase, "Hands up!" - is regarded as one of the continent's most notorious outlaws.
		It is believed that he was born in the state of Kentucky around 1843 and moved west before the start of the American Civil War, working as a cowboy, a driver, and finally an express rider in the California and Colorado territories.
		Miner and Culquhoun surrendered and all three were eventually convicted, Miner being sentenced to "life" at the New Westminster Penitentiary.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /folksong/game/bios/frsr-b.htm (664 words)

	Bill Miner
		Bill left home at age thirteen and headed west, he landed in California, where he operated a mail service.
		Bill was captured in Georgia and sentenenced to life in the Georgia State Penitentiary in Milledgeville.
		Bill Miner died in his sleep in 1913 at the ripe old age of sixty-six.
	members.tripod.com /ecv45/oldbill.html (253 words)

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		Bill Miner has done absolutely nothing to indicate he will act in the best interest of students; he is not well-liked in student government, nor particularly respected.
		Bill devised a clever political strategy to make himself look fiscally responsible when the truth of the matter is that he would have to take off his shoes and pants to count to 21.
		As part of the Senate, Bill Miner agreed on a benchmark of three percent for the PFC, meaning that the PFC was not to spend more than three percent over the money they allocated to student groups last year.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ocomment/ocarchive/oc96_97/oc11_96_6.html (2148 words)

	Miner Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Re: Narcisse Miner 1810-1907 - viviane boucher 10/13/04
		Re: Sylvanus to Bill Miner - Theresa Hamblin 4/27/05
		Re: Sylvanus to Bill Miner - Theresa Hamblin 5/04/05
	genforum.genealogy.com /miner/all.html (5848 words)

	Bill Miner, Hero or Bad Guy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bill miner was an American stagecoach and train robber who crossed the border into BC to escape the law in his own country.
		It was even said that while miner was hanging out at the train station, he would listen to someone talk with one ear and listen to messages coming in over the telegraph line with the other.
		Everyone boasted that he know Miner, talked with him, shared dinner with him, and of course, knew all that time what he was about.
	www.kamloopsguide.com /Pages/aBillMiner.html (610 words)

	The Sequel
		This was basically a Miner 2049er with new levels created by Mike Livesay who was the programmer of both the Apple II and Colecovision versions of Miner 2049er.
		Microfun had a bad habit of not paying their royalties for the Miner 2049er license and rumour has it that they created Miner II as a way to compensate for the failure of Scraper Caper to be released of which they had invested advertising money.
		By this time, the Miner 2049er bandwagon had lost much of its steam and most versions released were in the UK for several British systems such as the BBC, Amstrad and Sinclair Spectrum.
	www.classicgaming.com /miner2049er/sequel.html (601 words)

	Cherokee Bill
		Bill had a sister named Maude, and some time before her brother hit the outlaw trail, she married a “gentleman” named George Brown.
		His two partners in crime were the Cook brothers, Bill and Jim, and from that day onward, their destinies were inexorably linked to Cherokee Bill’s.
		And it was for Melton’s death that Bill was sentenced to hang by the legendary “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker.
	www.darkcanyon.net /cherokee_bill.htm (1453 words)

	Motorola Two Way Radio Dealer - Miner Electronics - Miner Electronics - About Us
		Miner Electronics was founded in Hammond, Indiana, by Harold E. Miner and his son, Jack in 1948.
		Today Miner is one of the finest providers of Motorola products and services, and represents many of the cutting edge manufacturers of industrial and public safety electronic equipment in the world.
		Today Miner Electronics is one of two organizations with the distinction of MSS in Chicagoland, and is rated in the top 10 of the largest Motorola Two-Way Radio Dealers in the Country.
	www.minerelectronics.com /about_us.htm (400 words)

	04-05-2000 - Historic Lumber Company Closing After 90 Years
		Bill also said his Uncle Deke developed an addition on Winona Lake on Country Club Road, and his Uncle Albert developed an addition on the north side of Center Lake.
		Bill explained further: “During the Depression, in Warsaw, one of the Miner Lumber Co. customers was a furniture manufacturer.
		Miner Lumber Co. will live on through the frames of homes, the antique desks and bedroom suites and the memories left with family members.
	www.timeswrsw.com /N0405000.HTM (706 words)

	The Grey Fox (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Although a robber and convict, Bill is a soft hearted guy perhaps mellowed with age and the years spent in prison.
		Bill and Shorty go into hiding and the Pinkerton detectives are hot on their trail.
		Finally, Bill is caught by those unceasing Pinkerton detectives and is led to the train station and to jail in a flamboyant manner for the whole town to see.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0085622 (690 words)

	The History of Princeton Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He was greatly admired by Princeton's townfolk - the ladies found him to be a great dancer, the men found him to be a great horseman and a big spender.
		George Edwards was actually Bill Miner, the notorious train robber.
		Bill Miner's hideout was on the hillside near Princeton Castle.
	www.castleresort.com /thehistory.html (356 words)

	Top Stories Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Trying to close a difficult escrow, Miner took off that stormy night when she lost control of her vehicle as she applied the brakes on a wet country road.
		Karen Miner is Co-chairperson for a group called ‘Californians for Cure’, which recently had Christopher Reeve place a 30 minute call in their behalf to Gov. Davis’ Chief aide.
		Miner has also been in touch with The Oprah Winfrey Show, Montel Williams Show, Rosie O’Donnell Show, Dateline, 60 Minutes, and Larry King in her quest for getting support to get the AB#750 bill passed.
	www.independentvoice.com /ts/ts10_06_99.html (3272 words)

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		ASUO President Bill Miner and Vice-president Ben Unger have been trying all year--with varying degrees of success--to shake things up and put their indelible stamp on the University of Oregon.
		Miner, who considers himself a feminist, did not act as quickly as many students felt he should have in adding Executive support to the campus judicial systemís findings.
		The evidence that students are upset with Miner and Unger, if only in terms of the Graham-Preston case, came in the form of angry posters plastered all over campus in a fit of activism-cum-civil disobedience that Miner and Unger could well learn from.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ocomment/ocarchive/oc97_98/oc6_97_4.html (1111 words)

	Chapter 6: Modern Transportation
		Miner's two accomplices in British Columbia were Louis Colquhoun, a former school teacher from Clifford, Ontario, and William Grell, alias Shorty Dunn, who hailed from Minnesota.
		Miner, using the alias of Edwards, when not travelling back and forth to the border or making trips to the coast, bought and sold cattle or prospected in the mountains.
		Miner had come into the store and purchased a pair of ladies stockings from him a few days before the holdup.
	www.fortlangley.ca /langley/6amodern.html (3288 words)

	The Miner 2049er Information Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bill Hogue and his company Big Five Software was regarded as the benchmark for arcade games on the TRS-80 with their arcade quality graphics, studder free sound effects and full page color magazine ads.
		Miner was an instant hit, not only because of how good the game was but also by how widely distributed it became.
		Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu have now created the official Big Five Software web site which goes into detail about the rise of Big Five Software and about the people involved.
	www.classicgaming.com /miner2049er (1016 words)

	Bertram Myles Miner
		Bertram Myles “Bert” Miner was born on April 13, 1907 in Doaktown, New Brunswick.
		It is not known who or what inspired Bert Miner to tie flies, or when he started, but a quarter century after his death Bert Miner is recognized as a famous fly dresser, fisherman and guide from the Miramichi area.
		Bert Miner may have taken part of the Cains River with him, but in return he left behind a major contribution to be studied and enjoyed by future generations of fly tiers, fishermen and river guides.
	nbflytyers.com /bertminer.htm (662 words)

	David Miner: Bush Pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Asked in ’96 why he had set a fundraising goal of $500,000, Miner replied that that sum “will help scare off some people.” Rapid development is a major issue in Miner’s Wake County district and developers are top donors to his hefty war chest.
		He moved the bill just five days after the Chamber of Commerce backing the bill took Miner’s suggestion that they hire his campaign consultant as its lobbyist.
		Miner was involved in a money-in-politics scandal involving the state’s filthy corporate pig farms.
	www.tpj.org /pioneers/david_miner.html (335 words)

	Percy Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Miner had been living quietly for the past couple of years years in Merrit, B.C. under the name George Edwards and this was to be his one last big haul.
		After a series of comedic errors, Miner and his gang escaped on a single horse with about one hundred dollars.
		Bill Miner escaped from the B.C. Pen, in broad daylight, a year after his capture and was never seen in Canada again.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~dsucha/mountie/thomas.html (458 words)

	Motorola Two Way Radio Dealer Illinois Indiana Chicago Miner Electronics
		He began working at Miner Electronics under the tutelage of his father in 1983 and, in 1987, Joel and his sister, Janet, took over operation of Miner Electronics.
		Bill is originally from Waukegan, Illinois, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
		Bill became the managing partner of Miner Electronics, and has run the day to day operation for the past nine years.
	www.minerelectronics.com /meet_our_owners.htm (362 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Grey Fox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bill Miner, having served 33 years in San Quentin for stage coach robbery, is released in 1901.
		Miner then settles down in a small Canadian town, falls in love with a feminist photographer, and even impresses the young constable with his charm.
		Richard Farnswroth (the weather-beaten cowboy in Comes a Horsemen) brings the legendary Bill Miner to life with an offbeat grace and wisdom.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_8835.html (149 words)

	AGH Library -- The Miner 2049er Story
		The phenomenon -- and make no mistake about it, Miner's publication is perhaps the most significant software event of the year -- starts from the fact that this is one super-duper program.
		In Miner, Bill Hogue has created a contest with arcade-quality play- action buttressed by sound and graphics that are pretty close to computer game state-of-the-art.
		Bill Hogue knew Miner 2049er was a good game, but he never expected it to become a sensation.
	www.atarihq.com /othersec/library/miner49.html (1201 words)

	Miner Family Genealogy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Re: Nelson and Samuel MINER - Vermont to Iowa - Bill Miner 3/06/05
		Re: Nelson and Samuel MINER - Vermont to Iowa - janet ross 3/07/05
		Re: Nelson and Samuel MINER - Vermont to Iowa - Virgil Huntley 3/10/05
	genforum.genealogy.com /miner (1590 words)

	Bill Miner Billy Miner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Miner explained that the reason for holding up this particular train was that he had certain information to the effect that a shipment of $100,000, subscribed in Canada for the relief of San Francisco earthquake victims, was being forwarded in the express car.
		At their trail for train robbery, the gang was sentenced as follows: Miner and Dunn received life imprisonment and Colquhoun twenty-five years.
		Miner received a twentyfive year sentence for his part in the offense.
	modena.intergate.ca /personal/dconrad/canadian.htm (904 words)

	John Spearn - Northern Sightlines - Songs About Canadian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Bill Miner, my love won't you come to the table?" she said.
		Bill Miner, Bill Miner, there's a C.P.R. train on time.
		Bill Miner, Bill Miner, never to come out again.
	www.canadasongs.com /miner.html (324 words)

	Princeton, B.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		No one suspected the soft spoken gentleman called George Edwards was actually Bill Miner, infamous train robber and prison escape artist.
		Jack Budd's ranch was used as a place to plan Miner's next train robbery near Kamloops.
		Bill Miner escaped and fled to the States where he was again captured.
	www2.nethop.net /~prdedc/billminer.html (264 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Lake Placid [2000] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humour (Curiously, this concoction was put together by David E Kelley, better known as the creator of TV's Ally McBeal and The Practice).
		Bridget Fonda plays a palaeontologist sent to investigate a large tooth; Bill Pullman is a fish and game warden just trying to keep the peace; Oliver Platt plays a loose-cannon mythology professor who swims with crocodiles for sport; and Brendan Gleeson is a local sheriff with a short temper and a big gun.
		Bill Pullman is irresistible in the role of the sardonic, put-upon male stereotype (as he was in The Last Seduction) and ditto Bridget Fonda as the sassy but slightly dippy female stereotype (as per It Could Happen To You).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000560Y7 (1283 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Grey Fox: The True Story of Bill Miner, Last of the Old-Time Bandits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But in their sober, dry account, the authors fail to make a strong case for their contention that Miner was the first known gay outlaw of the Old West.
		Miner's criminal career began in the 1860s and ended in 1911, two years before his death in prison.
		Although Dugan (Bandit Years, Sunstone Pr., 1987) and Boessenecker (Badge and Buckshot, Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1988) present evidence of Miner's sometime homosexuality and drug use, in his own day he was better known for...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0806124350 (543 words)

	Old Bill Miner
		Bill Miner, the gentleman bandit, enjoyed more popularity in his day than Jesse James or Billy the Kid.
		Reporters visited him during his time in jail, and dubbed him "Old Bill Miner." When he died in Georgia, where he had committed the state's first train robbery, locals chipped in to pay for his funeral.
		Described by some as North America's Robin Hood, Bill Miner's character has starred in folk songs, stage productions, and movies.
	www.bcbooks.com /oldbillminer.html (120 words)

	William "Bill" Miner/Nancy Jane King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Name: Eli Miner Born: 15 JUL 1886 at: Married: at: Died: 22 MAR 1959 at: Spouses:
		Name: Levi Miner Born: 26 JUL 1886 at: Married: at: Died: 1919 at: Spouses:
		Name: Permilia Miner Born: 28 NOV 1888 at: Bruno, Iron Co, MO Married: 26 SEP 1907 at: Died: 10 NOV 1908 at: Spouses: Napoleon Levi King
	rosecity.net /genealogy/mcclard/fam/fam12008.html (250 words)

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