After photographer William Henry Jackson posed 14 men, including expedition leader Ferdinand Hayden (seated, center), around a table in a field with the backdrop of Wyoming’s Red Buttes in 1870, he entered the picture (standing, far right).
Disguised as a man, Cora Hubbard (at far left) held the horses while her male accomplices (chained together) robbed a bank in 1897. A few days later, authorities caught up with the gang at Hubbard’s father’s home. A search of the house revealed cash and a Colt .45 revolver with the name “Bob Dalton” etched on the handle, seemingly confirming Hubbard’s claims that she had been a member of the Dalton Gang.
– True West Archives –
If all the horses turned at the same time, the stagecoach crashed—so the driver took care to turn each pair of horses separately.
– True West Archives –
While the Spanish Santa Rita Copper Mines opened operations in 1805, the American silver strike of 1870 inspired the name and the mining rush that built the town and brought the miners and settlers into direct conflict with the local Apache tribes led by Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo and Cochise.
– Courtesy John Harlan Collection, Silver City Museum –
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