Harvey Kid Curry Logan was an outlaw associated with Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longabaugh). After the latter two fled to South America, Logan and others in 1901 robbed a train in Montana of around $40,000 in federal banknotes. Logan's flight brought him to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he shot and seriously wounded two police officers trying to quell a saloon brawl. In 1902 he was tried in federal court and convicted of stealing, forging, and passing the federal banknotes; his sentence after appeal was twenty years. Just before the date for transport to the federal penitentiary in 1903, Logan escaped from the Knox County jail on the sheriff's horse and disappeared. After a botched 1904 train holdup in Parachute, Colorado, he was surrounded and committed suicide rather than be captured.

Donald Franklin Paine was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1939. He earned his B.A. (1961), M.A. (1963), and LL.B. (1963) from the University of Tennessee. Immediately after graduation, Paine served in the Army as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He was discharged in 1966 and returned to Tennessee, where he authored the Tennessee Law of Evidence (1974). Paine practiced law with Paine, Tarwater, and Bickers in addition to researching Tennessee's legal history. He was a Reporter to the Supreme Court Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure, wrote a monthly column for the Tennessee Bar Journal, and lectured for the Tennessee Law Institute, the University of Tennessee College of Law, and the Tennessee Judicial Conference. Paine also served as President of the Knoxville Bar Association (1983) and of the Tennessee Bar Association (1986-1987). Donald Paine died on November 18th, 2013.