This Day…

1847-Mexican War/General Taylor refuses to communicate with General Scott, as he has been ordered to do by President Polk.  Instead, Taylor goes west from Saltillo, 18 miles to Agua Nueva.

1875-Pinkerton agents bomb the home of Jesse & Frank James.  The result is the death of their younger brother, Archie, an their mother lost her arm.

1848 – James Marshall discovers gold.

1871 – The cable-operated streetcar is patented in San Francisco.

1881 – Michael O’Rourke, also known as Johnny Behind the Duce, killed Phillips Schneider at Charleston, Arizona.

1839-George Armstrong Custer is born in New Rumley, Ohio.

1881 – Yuba County Stage from Camptonville robbed at Bridgeport where a covered wooden bridge spanned the South Fort of the Yuba River, north of Smartsville.  Wells Fargo reported express box and mail pouches taken, but losses to the express company and to mail customers were unknown.  Black Bart strikes again.

2014-The Death Row All Stars slide into the Hall of Fame.

“I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings    

1806-Pike’s expedition makes a stockade on the upper Rio Grande in Spanish territory; he and his party are eventually taken prisoners by a Spanish force from Santa Fe, then led back to the American border.