This Day…

1852 – Future general George Crook graduates near the bottom of his class at West Point.

1883 – The Gambler Newt Boyce cut two men with a knife in a saloon fight with Caldwell, Kansas.  Marshal Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler arrested him for it and threw him in jail.

1871 – Wild Bill Hickok is dismissed as sheriff of Abilene, Kansas.

1870 – The opening round of the El Paso Salt War erupted in Ben Dowell’s saloon when a local lawyer named B. F. Williams killed Judge Gaylord Clarke and wounded the politician Albert Jennings Fountain.  Fountain brought Williams down with a rifle shot.

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

1859 – John Brown is hanged for the Harper’s Ferry insurrection.

Born in 1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American educator, politician, and author. She was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and the first black candidate from a major party. (d. 2005)

1864 – The Sand Creek Massacre takes place in Colorado.

1860 – Future hired gun, Tom Horn, is born in Memphis, Missouri.

He would have been fifty-three tomorrow.  He was murdered by people that work at Liberty Hospital and TallGrass Technologies.