Week 37: September
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9/10 of… 1855
Samuel Colt patents his Revolving Carbine, 6 or 5 shots, .36, .44 or.56 cal. One of the earliest dependable repeating rifles. {001}
1872
William Hepburn Russell, age 60, died in Palmyra, MO; of Russell, Majors and Waddell the company which created the ‘Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company’, the ‘Pony Express’. {001}
1876
The Battle of Slim Buttes [SD]: Crazy Horse [l] and his band attempt to save his old friend American Horse [r], headman of a small Minniconjou village, under attack by Captain Anson Mills and two battalions of the Third Cavalry. They are unsuccessful; the village is taken by the troopers and American Horse killed. Photo: Grabill, U.S. PD, [crop, full size at: Photo Gallery - Indian Photos] {001}
1893
Born: Al St John, aka ‘Fuzzy Q. Jones’, ‘Stoney’; Movie .Sidekick+3. {001}
1894
Parachute, CO Sheep Massacre; Brown’s sheep camp on Roan Creek is attacked by some fifty masked men, Brown “accidentally” wounded (and then cared for by the miscreants). The cowboys tried to run about half of the sheep over a cliff but that didn’t work, so the knives came out. Before the day is out they will cut the throats of almost four thousand sheep (that works out to about 80 sheep per man); a busy day. {001}
1961
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo, ‘Pancho’, age 81, died in Santa Monica, CA. He played in some 90 movies. At the age of 70 (TYH!), he began his best known role portraying ‘Pancho’, playing opposite Duncan Renaldo as Cisco, in 156 episodes of the Ziv Television series, “The Cisco Kid”. Horse: Loco. {001}
1955
With an introduction by John Wayne, Gunsmoke comes to CBS Television; starring James Arness as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, Dennis Weaver as sidekick+3 Chester, Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty Russell and Milburn Stone as Doc Adams.
