This Day…

1889 – Robert Younger, 35, dies of tuberculosis while serving a life sentence for his part in the Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery.

1896 – Killin Jim Miller ended his feud with Sheriff Bud Frazer by blowing off most of Frazer’s head with a shotgun in Toyah, Texas.  Frazer’s sister roundly cursed him for it and he threatened to shoot her too.

1862 – William Sidney Porter is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.  Later under the name of O. Henry he created “The Cisco Kid.”

1886 – Geronimo has surrendered, arrested and is sent to Florida.

1876 – The Great Northfield, Minnesota raid takes place.

1877 – Ed Schieffelin records his silver claim on the future site of Tombstone, Arizona.

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