The West Jun 1972 John Chisum---Empire Builder/The Day Wyatt Earp Died

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The West Jun 1972


In This Historical Issue:

John Chisum---Empire Builder
Involved in the infamous Lincoln County War, supposedly a friend of Billy the Kid, and he had his share of enemies
But John Chisum was basically a man of peace---a cattleman, a pioneer, builder and grower of things
He was the kind of man who built the West
"Uncle" John Chisum's famous "longhouse" 148 feet long, 39 feet wide
Miss Sallie Chisum, John Chisum's neice as well as housekeeper, dubbed "Queen of the Ranch" byu the cowboys
that worked there
Maj L G Murphy, southwest's "Cattle King" before Chisum  took the title
Blacksmith shop built in 1883
Chisum once drove 10,000 head of cattle from Trickham to the Pecos River country
Billy the Kid, known to have been a guest of the Chisum spread whenever Billy passed through the territory

Little Sister of Courage
With crucifix in hand, Sister Blanding added her own chapter to the colorful history of our great frontier
Sister Blandina Segale of the Sisters of Charity
early Trinidad Colorado, Colorado Hotel
Billy the Kid

Moman Pruiett---Genius of Hate
One of the Most Tragic Stories of the Old West
Paris, texas 1892
Street scene in Ada Oklahoma where citizens thwarted Pruiett's "courtroom magic" by handing out "early justice"
Sam Wilkerson and wife defended by Pruiett when arrested for murder
part lawyer4, part actor, his courtroom style kept juries fascinated

The Day Wyatt Earp Died
January 13, 1929
Earp in his 20's
Home where Earp died
Death Certificate (photo) lists Earp's occupation as "miner"

Tragedy on the Sweetwater
Young Tom was beaten, kidnapped, shot, then tied with wire and chained inside a deserted dugout---but he
lived to point out his black-hearted torturer to avenging his Indian friends...
Tom Averill Vernon, vowed to avenge the massacre of his parents
Tom Vernon, grew up to be the Buffalo Rider in the Wild West shows staged by Buffalo Bill Cody
Annie Oakley, Tom Vernon's guardian when he was 15
Tom Grant, his posse found Vernon's slain parents
Buffalo Bill with Pawnee Bill
Ella Watson Averill, first woman lynched in Wyoming
Jim Averill, he begged lynchers to free Emma

Guarding the Rio Grande (Cover Story)
Capt White's 20 yr service along the Rio Grande
Rare photo of the United States Forces, Hidalgo Texas, 1917
J D White, Border Guard, Deputy Sheriff Clark of Hidalgo County
J D White spent 20 yrs in Brownsville District, US Custom Service

The Northfield Raid
8 Killers rode into Northfield to heist the bank and to pay off a private grudge but a couple of ordinary
citizens taught them the game of shoot-out the hard way
Northfield Bank as it was in 1876 when Younger-James gang rode 8-strong into town for the hold-up
Cole Younger's Colt .45 at Saunders Museum Berryville Ar, used in hold-up
Jesse James' .22 calibre 7-shot hide-out gun at Northfield
Peaceful Bridge Square, bloody locale of letal shootout
Charles Pitts, dead gunman
Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell, robbers killed at Northfield
The notorious Younger Brothers, Jim, Cole and Bob, after they fell into police custody
J L Heywood, killed in raid
Frank James

Revival Meeting Cutups
It was all because of those pretty, big eyed girls sitting in back of them that the boys tried to get
across the notion they had plenty to repent of...
Duncan Oklahoma, Stephens County
community of Hope, Ok
Hope Church

Lake of the Pawnee Blood
4 Pawnee killed in Battle of Massacre Canyon
Sky Chief, head of the Pawnees at Massacre Canyon
Hitchcock Co, Nebraska
4 Aug 1873
A Pawnee blanket commerorating a victory over the Sioux
A group of Standing Rock Sioux "Ghost Dancers"

"I Met Butch Cassidy"
by Velma Dorrity Cloward
Utah Badlands
Old House in Kanosh Utah where author's mother was born
Lemuel and Maria Dorrity
Chief Kanosh
John Lee from Fillmore
Three Creek Valley
Rare photo of Butch Cassidy taken when he was 17 yrs old---and already a cattle thief
Three heads guarded the opening into "Robber's Roost"

Poker Alice--The West's First Female Gambler
"Poker Alice" Tubbs
Creede Colorado called "Jimtown" when Poker Alice arrived in men's clothing
Silver City New Mexico, 1872
Cold Dust Gambling House at Silver City where Alice broke the bank
wound up in Deadwood SD, many candidates claimed they could not get elected without her support
She smoked smelly cigars until her death in 1930
Wild Bill Hickok ran Deadwood when Poker Alice arrived
She was one of the first to enter the saloon after Jack McCall shot and killed Hickok
Edward O'Kelley, slayer of Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James, was in Creede with Alice

Early Day Fire Departments
Firehouse between Gold Hill and Virginia City Nevada
Members of the Curry Engine Company in Carson City Nevada 1868
Interior view of the Gold Hill Fire Company
Varuious fire departments were sometimes as concerned with beating rival companies to the fire than
with putting out the fires themselves

Slavery in the West
The weaker tribes suffered the most. A "likely girl" in her teens often brought $400
Slaves in Cheyenne villages lived under abject conditions
Slaves at work in a typical Indian Village, Morrow Collection, South Dakota Museum
Paiute Indian Women sold as slaves a fact of life in the early West

Roundup Time
First Electric Fence Used
An Indian Prayer
Jack Slade Origin
Many Bald Eagles found dead in Wyoming

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