from oldwestdailyreader for 07/12/: 1860 Gambler Charley Harrison shoots a dapper but abusive ‘Professor’ Charles Stark, ‘the Mexican Negro’ at the Criterion Saloon and Restaurant in downtown Denver. Stark brought a knife to a gunfight. 1893 Chicago World’s Fair – Chicago, IL, Fredrick Jackson Turner read his paper Frontier Thesis before the American Historical Association; perhaps the beginning of his long tenure as a definer of the Western phenomena in America. 1898 A posse led by then Sheriff of Doña Ana County, Pat Garrett caught up with Deputy Sheriffs James Gililland and Oliver Lee, suspected in the disappearance of Col. Albert J. Fountain and his son Henry. Fountain had just completed serving as a special prosecutor against cattle rustlers in highly politicized Lincoln County, NM. Garrett’s Deputy Kurt Kearney was killed and the suspects escaped. The Fountain’s bodies were never found and the suspects were later acquitted. Typical of the situation at the time in the Territory.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:10:16 +0000
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