Week 40: October
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10/1 of… 1862
The Great Hanging in Gainesville, TX; Southern soldiers (Vigilantes) take exception to Gainesville’s vote to stand with the union. The town is attacked, a mock trial held and 42 citizens are lynched. More lynchings would come in the reign of terror which followed. {001}
1864
Nevada attains Statehood as number 36, “The Silver State”. {001}
1876
Texas Ranger Sergeant John Barclay Armstrong leads a raid on an outlaw camp at Espinoza Lake, TX. Three bad men killed, one seriously wounded; another squad of Armstrong’s kills two more in a separate fight. {001}
1919
Charles Jesse ‘Buffalo’ Jones, age 75, died in Topeka, KS; Frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, conservationist, and founder of Dodge City, KS. An experimenter in the development of Cattalo; an amazing and noteworthy man, Jones was material to the preservation of the Buffalo in the U.S. TYH!+2 (see: Photo Gallery – Performer Photos) {001}
