07/28/2019
Wondering how we chose the name for the Kid Curry Stage? Here’s a little look at some Old City history!
Knoxville's place in Wild West folklore owes a lot to the tale of Harvey Logan, a.k.a Kid Curry, who was on the lam here in 1901. While at Ike Jones' Saloon on the Bowery (the Old City), he shot Knoxville policemen William Dinwiddie and Robert Saylor. Both survived, but never fully recovered. Dinwiddie, pictured below (thanks to his descendant, David Dinwiddie), died in 1914. After being captured later that evening, Logan spent the next 18 months in the Knox County jail. in 1903, he choked a guard, stole the sheriff's horse, and escaped across the Gay Street Bridge.