This Day…

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.

1892 – A sixteen man posse attacked Ned Christie’s fort near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with a small cannon after firing 30 rounds to no effect the breech failed.

1863 – Future outlaw Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum is born in San Saba County, Texas.

1873 – Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire.