Cossacks Motorcycle Club

[1] The Cossacks Motorcycle Club was founded in Tyler, Texas in 1969 by a group of six bikers: Earl Swift, Charles Hanks, Butch Cheatham, Paul Henley, Tom Eliason and Carl Blair.

The members of the Cossacks then proceeded to beat the Bandidos biker with melee weapons including chains, metal pipes, and batons.

[10][11][12][13] That same day, A group of either Bandidos or Bandidos-affiliated bikers (support club members), approached a single member of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club at a Palo Pinto County gas station (approximately 60 miles west of Fort Worth and request that the Cossack biker remove his 'Texas' bottom rocker.

The biker responded with refusal, resulting in him being hit in the head with a hammer and his Cossacks MC vest being taken off his person.

[3] The El Paso branch of the FBI was 'tipped off' by a confidential source on April 7, 2015 about a group of 100 Bandidos members expected to travel to Odessa, Texas for the purpose of starting a gang war with the Cossacks MC.