This Day…

1851 – Morgan Earp is born in Pella, Iowa.

1875 – Wyatt Earp is hired as a policeman in Wichita, Kansas.

1849 – Captain G. W. Paul leads the first party of 49ers along the Oregon Trail to the California gold rush.

1860 – The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco only 10 days after departing St. Joseph, Missouri.  The postage rate is $5 per half-ounce.

1861 – The Civil War officially began.

1881 – Billy the Kid is convicted of murdering Sheriff Brady.

1867 – General William Tecumseh Sherman starts a plan to drive Indians out of the path of the transcontinental railroad.

1860 – The Pony Express begins operating out of St. Joseph, Missouri.

1850 – Los Angeles is incorporated and became the county seat.

2004 – My brother was arrested for a crime he did not commit.  The person who made the allegations admitted she lied, but they took him anyway.  Now he’s gone.