This Day…

1879 – Wyatt, James & Virgil Earp arrive in Tombstone.

1864 – One hundred fifty-one years ago today the full impact of the tragedy at Sand Creek was just being realized. Colonel John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers massacre a peaceful village of Cheyenne camped near Sand Creek in Colorado Territory, setting off a long series of bloody retaliatory attacks by Indians.

1859 – The Rocky Mountain News begins publication at the Cherry Creek digging sites of Denver.  Its publisher is William N. Byers.  The Weekly Arizonian begins publication in Tubac, south of Tucson.

1860 – Future hired gun, Tom Horn, is two days old.  He was born in Memphis, Missouri.

1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address.

1852 – Sacramento, California is recovering from a fire that destroyed 75 percent of the city – 2,500 buildings.

2003 – Twelve years ago my brother was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t do.  The mother-daughter team who put him there are still on the loose.  Rick won’t live to see the new year.

2015 – The option for the Death Row All Stars ended with 33 Pictures and neither Netflix, Cinemax, or USA want to make Thunder Over the Prairie.

1877 – Dodge City Deputy Marshall Ed Masterson tried to put an end to a quarrel between Ed Shaw and Texas Dick Moore, co-owners of the Lone Star Dance Hall.  All of them got shot up in the melee including an innocent bystander, but happily all recovered fully.