December 21, 1876, Las Animas, Colorado. Clay Allison and his brother John were on a drunken spree in the Olympic Saloon. Charles Faber, a deputy sheriff, went after them. After Faber had wounded John with a shotgun, Clay Allison gunned down Faber.
December 25, 1876, Zavala County, Texas. An enraged King Fisher gunned down a cowboy, William Dunovan.
December 25, 1876, Austin, Texas. Ben Thompson shot and killed Mark Wilson in a variety theater, following an argument.
June through July, 1877, Lampasas, Texas. There were numerous clashes between the Horrell-Higgins clans. While nobody was killed, many were wounded.
August 17, 1877, Fort Grant Arizona. In George Adkins’s saloon, seventeen-year-old Henry McCarty (aka William Bonney and Billy the Kid) had a quarrel with F.P. Cahill. Cahill slapped the kid’s face and threw him to the floor. Billy pulled a revolver and shot Cahill, who died the next day. A coroner’s jury indicted Billy for criminal and unjustifiable murder.
August 23, 1877, Pensacola, Florida. Texas Ranger John Armstrong arrested John Wesley Hardin aboard a train. When Hardin drew his gun from his waistband, it caught on his suspenders. By then, Armstrong had his own weapon out, and clubbed Hardin senseless. He was returned to Texas. Convicted, he did time in Huntsville prison.
September 25, 1877, Dodge City, Kansas. Sheriff Bat Masterson and Deputy Ed Masterson exchanged fire with a drunken cowboy. The fray ended when the cowboy ran for his horse and galloped away.
November 5,1877, Dodge City, Kansas. In the afternoon, a quarrel broke out in the Lone Star Dance Hall, owned by Texas Dick Moore and Bob Shaw. Shaw was firing at Moore, when Deputy Marshal Ed Masterson arrived. He clubbed Shaw on the head with the butt of his gun, but Shaw whirled and began firing at the marshal. Masterson was hit in the chest, paralyzing his arm, causing him to drop his pistol. Masterson fell to the floor, and seizing his revolver, shot Shaw twice.
April through July 1878, Lincoln County, New Mexico. Gunfights involving Charlie Bowdre, Richard Brewer, Henry Brown, Frank and George Coe, and Billy the Kid. These events led up to the Lincoln County War.
April 9, 1878, Dodge City, Kansas. Marshal Ed Masterson was shot and killed by a drunken cowboy.
July 26, 1878, Dodge City, Kansas. At three o’clock in the morning, lawmen Wyatt Earp and Jim Masterson engaged in a gunfight with drunken Texas cowboys. George Hoy, a Texan, was hit in the arm, and died from infection.
June 9, 1879, Dodge City, Kansas. Sheriff Jim Masterson, attempting to enforce a gun ordinance, engaged in a gunfight with drunken Texas cowboys, one of whom was shot in the leg.
July 19, 1879, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Doc Holliday and Mike Gordon engaged in a shootout, after Gordon began shooting up a saloon partly owned by Holliday. After Gordon had fired two shots, Holliday felled him with one shot.
November 20, 1879, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Constable Dave Mather was taking some drunken soldiers to jail, when one of them attempted to escape. One of the soldiers was wounded.
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1 Fancy place.
2 Cemetery.
3 Roadrunner.
4 Book one, The Dawn Of Fury.
5 Book one, The Dawn Of Fury.
6 Loretto Chapel was built in 1852 and stands today on the old Santa Fe Trail.
7 “Rimrocking” sheep consisted of driving the herd off a cliff.
8 In January 1874, the Horrells returned to Texas, resuming the Horrell-Higgins feud.
9 Ravines or gullies.
10 Roy Bean operated a freight line from San Antonio for twenty-two years.
11 Clay Allison eventually fled Cimarron after killing a sheriff who came to arrest him.
12 Devil. Horse of death.
13 Mexican rooster pull.
14 The breed was unnamed until 1941, when it officially became the quarter horse.
15 The second Battle of Adobe Walls, June 27, 1874.
16 Ambush.
17 House Of The Eagle.
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sp; 18 During building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the U.S. was defrauded of $20 million.
19 President Grant’s secretary, O.E. Babcock, was acquitted.
20 The Dawn Of Fury (Book 1)
21 The Dawn Of Fury (Book 1)
22 Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanches, surrendered on June 2, 1875.
23 Fort Elliott was established on June 5, 1875, in present-day Wheeler County.
24 This is the only recorded instance where Bat Masterson actually killed a man.
25 On April 28, 1876, the three camps combined, becoming the town of Deadwood.
26 Johnny Slaughter was murdered in 1877, when masked men robbed his stagecoach.
27 Custer and 265 of his men died June 25, 1876, at the Little Big Horn.
28 Hickok’s best hand would have been a full house. The odds against him were 693-1.
29 Tested, every remaining cartridge in McCall’s pistol misfired.
30 McCall was indicted for murder at Yankton Court House on October 18, 1876.
31 John King Fisher was born in 1854, in Collin County, Texas.
32 In May 1877, Ben Thompson was tried and acquitted.
33 The Gila River flows across southern Arizona, emptying into the Gulf of California.
34 The Gila River, which flows across southern Arizona.
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