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In 1878, Charles Rath sat on 40,000 buffalo hides in the hide yard of the store he owned with Robert M. Wright in Dodge City, Kansas. Wright said of Rath, “He bought and sold more than a million of buffalo hides, and tens of thousands of buffalo robes, and hundreds of cars of buffalo meat, both dried and fresh, besides several car loads of buffalo tongues.”
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Ken Clayton This was part of the war on the native Americans The plains Indians counted on the buffalo not only for food but clothing and shelter and more.
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Dale Suttles It is sad the way many were just wasted. But I've read up on them quite a bit. At one time early 1800's and before, there were 60 million of those critters runnin around. If they hadn't thinned those herds way down, and wolves too, guess where they wou...See More
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Movie portrayals aside, Doc Holliday was not a gunfighter or quick draw artist—what made Holliday a dangerous man was his willingness to participate in troubling activities.
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Michael Mallon he might have been "the most interesting man in the world" I don't always carry a gun, but when I do, its a .41 calliber colt thunderer"
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Danny Lawrence I have read many books on Doc,most said he was as fast on the draw as anyone, he was willing to participate in life or death situations because if his health,he did not want to slowly waste away
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Omaha’s Union Pacific Railroad inspectors and car cleaners sit with their wisp brooms and sticks that they used to beat out the dust. By May 1892, the Sanitary Era was reporting the Union Pacific’s hygienic upgrade—these tools were being replaced with a flexible rubber hose that shot out a compressed stream of air.
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Richard Lee Ireland ACTUALLY... those are "wheelmen" and the axle and large jacks should be a dead give away. the long poles and irons they carried were to walk down wither side of a train and whack the wheels. a clear ring sound told them that wheel wasn't cracked. any dead or dull thud was a tell-tale sign that the wheel was cracked and needed to be replaced.
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Frank Vigneri ... My Grandfather Lou Vigneri came from Sicily to work in the shop as a Master Craftsman building the beautiful coach cars.
I left the ''Big O'' at 20.
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Tombstone’s Madams and Working Girls
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Tombstonians bragged with civic pride their prostitutes were superior in charity, decorum, honesty and manners than those in towns like Bisbee, Charleston and…
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John Olexa They could be very charitable... unless you mess with their man as the Mexican beauty Margarita(sp) found out after Little Gertie aka "Gold Dollar " saw her sitting on her boyfriends lap ( Billy Milgreen) After some hair pulling Little Gertie pulled out a dagger and stabbed Margarita. She bled to death before a doc could get there. No charges were filed against Gertie.This fight happened at the Bird Cage Theatre.
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Georgia Gannon Olson I have seen pictures of lovely looking woman of that time, being a soiled dove was hard work taking its toll on both body and mind!
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By the time Nellie Trent Bush won national attention as “Admiral of Arizona's Navy,” Arizona well knew it had one helluva woman in its midst.
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Gayle Emerson Dwyer Powerful lady
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Billy the Kid’s Last Victim
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Bob Olinger was Billy the Kid’s last victim, but he was also deadly himself.
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Richard Portugal Plus Billy had a personal thing for Bob because he killed one of Billy's friends on the Pecos and he swore revenge for that a little after Tunstall, plus he was always threatening him and taunting him when he was under arrest. That's justice old west style.
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Brian Keith O'Hara Bob Olinger was not a victim. A lot of people consider him the most vicious, dishonest US Marshal in New Mexico. Billy promised Justice for everyone connected to the posse which murdered John Tunstall. Billy gave Bob justice.
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Was Wyatt Earp a Pimp?
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In 1872 Wyatt Earp and his brother Morgan were arrested in Peoria, Illinois, for being aboard a floating bagnio (a brothel).
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