This Day…

Roosevelt plans possible military action to handle the Alaska boundary dispute with Canada.  The president orders the secretary of war to have ‘additional troops sent as quietly an unostentiously as possible to Southern Alaska.’

This Day…

1881-Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor, an account of the atrocities committed against Indian tribes in the West and an indictment of the nation’s reservation policy.  Jackson sends copies of the book to ever member of Congress and to most federal officials.

This Day…

1903-Seven masked men tie up a sheepherder, kill his horses, and slaughter some 500 sheep 40 miles north of Lusk, Wyoming.

This Day…

1795-The French settlers at Gallipolis, Ohio, receive deed to the land despite the counterclaims of the Scioto Company.

This Day…

1871-Surrounded by a posse in an outhouse in Wichita, Kansas suspected horse thief J.E. Ledford came out with guns blazing and sadly wounded Marshal Jack Bridges.  Bridges survived buy Ledford was killed.

This Day…

1897-Respected lawman Les Dow was reading a letter in front of the post office in Carlsbad, NM when Dave Kemp stepped up and shot him in the face.  He died the next morning.

This Day…

1802 – Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, proposes that an allotment be made from the sales of public lands for the construction of roads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ohio River.

This Day…

1886 – The California orange groves send the first trainload of fruit to Eastern markets – the beginning of Western ‘agri-business.’