Week 15: April
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4/9 of… 1830
Eadweard James Muybridge born in England: Pioneer Photographer. {001}
1851
Settlers from Taos (Taoseño’s), in what will soon be the New Mexico Territory found San Luis, the first permanent settlement in what will become the Colorado Territory in another ten years. {001}
1878
10:00 PM: Edward J. “Ed” Masterson, acting as a Deputy Marshal, killed in a gunfight with drunken Jack Wagner (killed) and Alf M. Walker (wounded but survived) in front of the Lady Gay; Dodge City, KS. Wagner was so close, his pistol set Masterson’s clothes on fire. Flaming and gut shot, Ed draws and shoots Wagner once in the stomach and Walker takes one through the lungs and two in the right arm; Masterson then walked nearly two hundred yards (and crossed the railroad tracks!) to George Hoover’s Saloon to tell George Hinkle,
