1899 – Black Jack Ketchum got into an argument over a card game with two miners in a saloon near Camp Verde, Arizona and killed them both.
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1882 – Prominent Coloradoans, notably Horace Tabor and William Loveland, builder of the Colorado Central Rail Road and owner of the Rocky Mountain News, organize the National Mining and Industrial Exposition in Denver. Its purpose is to advertise and promote the state of Colorado, its resources, and its potential for future growth.
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The first two volumes of Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West are published. Roosevelt’s action-packed drama traces the spread of the United States across the continent, from the day Daniel Boone first pierced the Cumberland Gap in 1765 to the day Davy Crockett died at the Alamo in 1836. He will complete two additional volumes in 1896.
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1887 – The Swan Land and Cattle Company of Wyoming, only four years old, declares bankruptcy following the devastating winter of 1886-7. The demise of the huge livestock corporation is symbolic of the Depression that will grip the cattle industry on the Great Plains during the next 10 years. Over the period the number of cattle in Wyoming alone will decline from 9 million head in 1886 to only 3 million by 1895.