Laura Bullion, born around 1876 in Knickerbocker, Texas, was drawn into the outlaw life as a teenager, becoming romantically involved with notorious train robber William Carver before later joining her next lover, Ben “The Tall Texan” Kilpatrick, in Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. Known as “Della Rose” and the “Rose of the Wild Bunch,” Bullion helped the gang fence stolen goods and money and participated in several train robberies. After Carver was killed by lawmen in 1901, Bullion and Kilpatrick fled to St. Louis, where they were arrested later that year; Kilpatrick received a 15-year sentence while Bullion was sentenced to five years. Released in 1905 after serving about three and a half years, Bullion eventually settled in Memphis, Tennessee, where she lived under the name Freda Lincoln and worked as a seamstress and dressmaker. She died in 1961 and was buried under a tombstone bearing the names “Freda Bullion Lincoln—Laura Bullion—The Thorny Rose.” She never saw Kilpatrick again, as he was released in 1911 and returned to crime before being killed during a train robbery attempt in Texas in 1912.