This Day…

1870 – A thousand-mile trip on the Kansas Pacific Railroad cost $45.

1880 – Thomas Edison patents the incandescent bulb.

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

1848 – James Marshall discovers gold in California.

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

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

1864 – Vigilantes hang Sheriff Henry Plummer.

1862 – Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47.

Future cowboy movie star, Tom Mix, is born in Pennsylvania.

1887 – Perry Owens is elected sheriff of Apache County in the Arizona Territory.