This Day…

1917 – Jeannette Rankin (R-MT) took her seat as the first female member of Congress

1828 – The first printing press designed to use the newly invented Cherokee alphabet arrives at New Echota, Georgia.

1847 – The first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

1812 Wilson Hunt arrives at Astoria, Oregon.  Having departed St. Louis more than two years earlier, Wilson Hunt and his party stumble into the fur-trading post of Astoria, Oregon.

1822 – Ashley Tribune advertises for western fur trappers

1861 Kansas enters the Union.

1875 Pinkertons maim Frank and Jesse James’ mother .  Mistakenly believing Frank and Jesse James are hiding out at their family home, a gang of men–likely led by Pinkerton detectives–mount a raid that leaves the outlaws’ mother permanently maimed and their nine-year-old half-brother dead.