This Day…

1870 – Calamity Jane claims to have married Wild Bill Hickok on this date.

1879 – William F. Cody publishes his autobiography, “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody.”

1869 – J. B. Hickok “Wild Bill” Hickok is elected sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas.

1863-William Quantrill’s raiders devastate Lawrence, Kansas

1856 – Gail Borden patents a milk condensing process.

1858 – First cable message crosses the Atlantic

1860-Phoebe Ann Moses was one day old.  Better known as Annie Oakley she was born on August 13th.

1887-Eight Hash Knife riders led by Tom Tucker rode up to the Tewksbury place in Pleasant Valley, Arizona looking for trouble and got it.  The Tewksburys killed Hampton Blevins and John Paine and wounded three others including Tucker.  Tucker survived and later became a lawman in Santa Fe.

1896-Black Jack Will Christian and his gang, the High Fives, robbed a bank in Nogales, Arizona.  Newsman Frank King spotted them and opened fire with a .41 Colt wounding two of the horses.  The outlaws fled town with an empty sack.

1895-Zip Wyatt was caught sleeping in a cornfield near Skeleton Creek, Oklahoma by a posse who gut shot him and shattered his pelvis before he was disarmed and taken into custody.