Week 44: October/November
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10/29 of… 1876
Tom Newcomb guns down Moses Embree “California Joe” Milner at the Red Cloud Agency, NE. {001}
1901
Lexington, NC; Annie Oakley is among the seriously injured when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is devastated in a train wreck. {001}
1901
The assassin of President William McKinley, Leon Czologosz is electrocuted in Auburn Prison (NY); out West, they’re still “stringin’ ‘em up”. {001}
1922
First release of The Roping Fool starring Will Rogers as “Ropes Reilly”. The classic rope trick movie; a cowboy comedy featuring Rogers performing more than twenty roping feats including the amazing three rope trick invented by Bee Ho Gray. If you want to be a roper; If you think you are a roper; if you want to know what a roper really is…? Watch this film! Will was a lot more than just a roper! {001}
