Week 35: August/September
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8/27 of… 1859
The World’s first oil well, Titusville, PA; drilled by Col. Edwin Drake. The search for oil will move west… {001}
1860
Salt Lake City, UT: the Ninth Hand Cart Company [Robison] arrives, eighty-three days out from Florence, NE, with 233 emigrants, having lost but one on the trek. {001}
1883
The eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait in Indonesia makes for spectacular sunsets in the west (and all over the world) for most of the next three or four years. Western movies made it last a lot longer! {001}
2006
Final episode of HBO’s western series Deadwood (3 seasons). TYH! (but no movies… shucks) {001}
8/28 of.. 1881
The Southern Ute Indians [Mouache] were forcibly removed to a reservation in the Utah Territory. (see: Quotes – Indians, from Colorado Governor F.W. Pitkin) {001}
1930
Dayton, WA: dead at 76, Sgt. Frank Finkel who laid claim to having been the lone survivor of the Custer Massacre. (see: Wk. 26, 06/25/1876) {001}
1995
Earl W. Bascom, “The Cowboy of Cowboy Artists” age 89, died in Victorville, CA. All around cowboy, bronc buster, rodeo champion, dude wrangler, painter, print maker, sculptor, blacksmith, inventor, cattle rancher, motion picture actor… etc.; this is the short list! Father of Modern Rodeo. Bascom and brother Weldon, financed by
