Matt Warner

Matt Warner (April 12, 1864 – December 21, 1938) was a notable figure from the American Old West who was a farmer, cowboy, rancher, ferryman, cattle rustler, bank robber, justice of the peace, lawman, and bootlegger.

[a] Warner operated in the Robbers Roost area of southeastern Utah before teaming up with outlaw Butch Cassidy.

[7][c] Christian converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark and his son, John, was the first child born into the faith there.

The Christiansens lived in several towns (Nephi, Ephraim, Levan, and Manti, Utah), depending upon his roles within the church.

[9] Teeny, Warner's sister, married Tom McCarty, the leader of the Blue Mountain Gang.

[3][7] In 1878, Warner went to the eastern Uinta Mountains, where cattle grazed on the range and farmers irrigated their crops on remote homesteads.

He joined a crew of cowboys trailing a herd of horses into the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah.

[4] There he soon joined up with cattle rustlers working out of Browns Park, earning the name of the "Mormon Kid".

Warner arranged a masquerade dance and asked party-goers to obtain "hot" clothes at Jarvie's store to attend the party.

He was a member of the Robber's Roost Gang, with Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, Bill Tibbets, Jim Peterson, and his brother-in-law, Tom McCarty.

In 1896, in the Uinta Mountains north of Vernal, Utah, Warner was involved in a gunfight where he shot and killed two men and wounded a third.

[6][11][12] In his later years, Warner ran for public office as Willard Erastus Christiansen, and lost because he was unknown by this name.