Week 46: November
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11/12 of… 1884
Springer, New Mexico Territory hosts The National Cattlemen’s Association. {001}
1888
Voca, TX: James S. “Jim” Longley, brother of William P.“Wild Bill” Longley is elected sheriff. {001}
1912
Sale of the last of the cattle from the XIT Ranch in Texas. Now the final land sales would complete the dissolution of the ranch. XIT – “Ten in Texas”; covering all or part of ten counties, the XIT Ranch was founded by the Capitol Syndicate (Chicago) in 1885 and “owned” by brothers Charles and John Farwell. They traded construction of a new state capitol building in Austin valued at $3,000,000 for l3,000,000 acres of land. At first, the ranch ran about 150,000 cattle a year. Then, due to economic conditions in the cattle market, the ranch began to fail. An XIT herd, ramrodded by John McCanless was the last up the Western Trail (1896). By 1908 both brothers were dead and the ranch had been sold asunder. {001}
1920
Winifred Maurice Harrison ‘Sunset Carson’ born in Gracemont, OK; Movie Star. {001}
11/13 of… 1863
Sentenced to death for the killing of one John Savage, Chipita Rodriguez gains the dubious honor of becoming the first woman to be legally hanged in Texas. {001}
1876
The Downieville to Marysville (CA) Wells Fargo Stage is robbed by Joe and Tom Brown. One passenger wounded. {001}
1878
LCW: A “Blanket Amnesty” for all participants in the Lincoln County War is proclaimed by New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace. {001}
1900
Zerelda Amanda Mimms James died at her sister’s home in Kansas City, MO, widow of Jesse Woodson James. {001}
11/14 of… 1861
Fredrick Jackson Turner born in Portage, WI: Western Historian. {001}
1863
On the road between Horse Prairie and Bannack, MT, Henry Tilden was set upon by three men and robbed of $10. One of the robbers might have been Sheriff Henry Plummer. {001}
1879
Justice of the Peace George W. “Hoodoo” Brown, allegedly in reaction to a holdup on the Santa Fe Railroad, appoints outlaw and stage robber Dave Rudabaugh sheriff in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory. {001}
1882
William F. “Billy the Kid” Claiborne killed trying to ambush “Buckskin Frank” Leslie outside the Oriental Saloon. Tombstone, AZ. Frank had tried to warn him off but Billy wasn’t listening. (see: Quotes – Gunfighters from Billy) {001}
1900
Aaron Copeland born in Brooklyn, NY: Composer. {001}
1921
Robert Alba Keith born in Bayonne, NJ (??) {001}
1974
Johnny Mack Brown, age 70, died in Woodland Hills, CA. He was in 127 Western films: Billy the Kid (1930), The Big Trail (1930) with John Wayne, Montana Moon (1930), Desperate Trails (1939) and Badman from Red Butte (1939). He also played in four serials for Universal Studios: Flaming Frontiers, Rustlers of Red Dog, Wild West Days and The Oregon Trail. {001}
11/15 of… 1806
Lt. Zebulon Pike and expedition physician, Dr. John H. Robinson, first sight the distant Colorado peak which Pike calls Grand Peak but will later be named for him; near Ft. Lyons, CO. {001}
1878
St. Louis, MO sees the passing of Geminien P. Beauvais, age ??, noted early explorer and frontiersman. {001}
1887
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe born near Sun Prairie, WI: American Painter. {001}
1904
Eliss Albert “Al” Swearengen, age 59, found dead in the street in Denver, CO. Business man, Pimp, Proprietor of The Gem Theater in Deadwood, SD. {001}
1947
One of the last of the real “old timers”, Alvira “Allie” Sullivan Earp, dies at age 98 in Los Angles, CA, wife of the famous lawman Virgil Walter Earp. {001}
11/16 of… 1821
William Becknell‘s pack Train arrives in Santa Fe, NM. The Spanish, who tended to imprison traders as “spies”, are out of the picture and the “new” Mexicans are open for trade. The round trip took only 48 days and returned considerable profit. In 1822, Becknell will pioneer a new route and the use of wagons to carry goods . The Santa Fe Trail is open for business. (see: Wk. 35, 09/01/1821) {001}
1907
Combining the Oklahoma Territory (created 1890) and part of the Indian Territories (created 1834 for the use Native Americans), Oklahoma was admitted to the Union as the 46th state. “The Sooner State”. {001}
1990
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA): Activists, inspired by Maria Pearson finally succeed in securing legislation regarding “ownership” and disposition of human remains and cultural objects of Native American peoples: a complicated and ongoing issue. {001}
11/17 of… 1855
U.S. Marshal William Richardson shot by Charles Cora in California. {001}
1856
Ft. Buchanan established on the Sonoita River in southern Arizona to manage lands acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. (see: Wk. 17, 04/25/1854) {001}
1867
Davies County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO robbed; John Reno arrested by Pinkerton’s, convicted and serves nearly 10 years in the Missouri State Penitentiary; the only brother in The Reno Gang who was not lynched. {001}
1896
Judge Isaac Charles Parker, age 58, died in Ft. Smith, AK; presiding over almost 13,500 cases, 9,454 of which resulted in convictions. Of the 344 capitol cases tried, “The Hanging Judge”, sentenced 160 to death, but of these only 79 actually went to the gallows. {001}
1896
Buckskin Frank Leslie’s curious pardon from the Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma, AZ. Frank had killed his mistress Blond Mollie, and made an attempt to kill her supposed lover. He only served six years of a life sentence and was then paroled. Was this because he was able to call in powerful old chits relating to his help with the killing of John Ringo? (see: Wk. 28, 07/13/1882) {001}
1911
A relentless ten day pursuit across the state brings Sheriff Dwight Stephens posse into a blazing shootout with John Greer‘s gang of outlaws at the V Cross T Ranch in Southwestern, NM Terr. One accounting has John Greer charging with the reins in his teeth and a six-shooter spewing death in each hand. Whatever the truth, Deputies A.L. Smithers and rancher Thomas H. Hall were killed. Greer was killed by rifle fire from the sheriff who was himself saved only by the timely arrival of deputies Johnnie James and W.C. “Bill” Simpson. Uninjured, John Gates and Reynard Greer slipped away in the gathering evening… {001}
1917
Black Diamond, age 22, an American Bison Bull, ex-resident of the Bronx Zoo (The New York Zoological Park) bought and slaughtered for meat by A. Slilz, Inc. “Black Diamond steaks brought $2.00 a pound; said by some to have been the model for the reverse of the Indian Head nickel and the back of the 1910 series note (debated). His head was mounted and his hide became an automobile robe. {001}
11/18 of… 1865
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, published in the New York Saturday Press. {001}
1883
The U.S. Naval Observatory adopts Standard Time as defined by the nation’s largest railroads; four times zones across the U.S. This led to a vast simplification of RR schedules across the country, enhancements in RR safety and improvements in weather forecasting. {001}
1944
George Taplan ‘Tap’ Duncan, age 75, cut down in the streets of Kingman, AZ by a ’41 Ford. Cowboy, member of the Wild Bunch, cattleman, shooting legend; some claimed it was Tap who was with George Kilpatrick and Kid Curry when they robbed eastbound D&RGW train #5 at Parachute, CO. (see: Wk. 23, on 06/07/1904) {001}
