What led George Parrott to such a grisly end? Before he died, he was known for frontier crimes. He had been arrested for horse theft,train robbery and murder.

After being lynched by a local mob, he was dismembered and skinned by the town Doctor, his chest skin was used as a doorstop.

The lower skull half was buried in a whiskey barrel with the rest of the outlaw’s bones. In 1950, the whiskey barrel was discovered when workers were excavating for a new department store.

The top half was given to Lillian Heath, who later became Wyoming’s first female physician. It had been used for years as an ashtray.

His nipples and thighs were sent to a tanner in Denver. The skin was tanned and made into a medicine bag and pair of shoes.