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Abel Head Pierce
“There aren’t any cowboys in Rhode Island,” said a friend recently. I had to correct him, for as we will see this week there was a great cowboy who came from Rhode Island. Abel Head Pierce was born in Rhode Island on June 29, 1834. At the age of twenty he stowed away on a […]
Santa Anna
I’m aware of no one who had higher highs and lower lows than the subject of this week’s story did. Even though he wasn’t a citizen of the United States, his fate was important to our country. He was born Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the son of middle-class parents in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Joining […]
GAMBLERS
Men who came out west gambled everything on the hopes of becoming prosperous and having a good life. That same spirit led them into gambling halls, and games of chance. One such game started on June 15, 1853 and ended 24 years later. For people of the Old West gambling was a way of life. […]
SAMUEL COLT
Samuel Colt’s single action revolver, known as the “peacemaker” is a staple to any story about the Old West. But chances are we wouldn’t have ever heard of Colt had it not been for an event that took place on January 4, 1847. As the story goes in 1830, on a sea voyage to Singapore, […]
A TOWN TREED
Hunters are known to tree a mountain lion or a bear now and then, but in 1859, a gang of thugs treed a whole town. That’s right, a whole town. It was the mid 1800’s. Anglos from other parts of the United States were coming to Texas in groves, and taking over land previously owned […]
