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10/8 of… 1808

Horace Smith; born in Cheshire (Chester?), MA; firearms and cartridge designer.  {001}

1878

James Grimshaw Cayton born in Hooper, NE: early Forest Ranger.  {001}

1879

The James Gang robs the C&A train at Glendale, MO. (Jesse, Frank, J.A. “Dick” Liddil and others)  {001}

1881

The stage from Eureka to Redding in Shasta County, CA again falls to Black Bart. (See: Quotes – Black Bart, Other Robbers & Poets)  {001}

10/9 of… 1856

The Federal Government accepts Hiram Kimball‘s bid of $23,000 per year to carry mail from Independence , MO to Salt Lake City, UT.  {001}

1858

The San Francisco, CA to St. Louis, MO Butterfield Overland Mail Stage arrives; it has been 24 days in transit.  {001}

1875

Cooney Mitchell is hanged in Granbury, TX in connection with the deaths of two Truitt men the year before. (Mitchell-Truitt Feud)  {001}

1906

Joseph Farwell Glidden, age 93, died in DeKalb, IL; successfully patented barbed wire. While perhaps not the originator of the product, (Lucien B. Smith patent, 1867), his version was the one that changed the west (see: Wk. 47, 11/24/1874).  {001}