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LIVER-EATING JOHNSON
On January 21, 1900 one of the Old West’s most intriguing and gruesome men died in a veterans’ hospital in California. This was a strange ending for this man who was depicted in a movie Starring Robert Redford called “Jeremiah Johnson”. John Johnson was a red bearded giant of a man who headed to the […]
POWDER RIVER BATTLE
Just five months after the Little Bighorn Battle, on November 25, 1876, in retaliation, U.S. troops under the leadership of General Ranald Mackenzie destroyed the village of Cheyenne living with Chief Dull Knife on the Powder River. Although the Sioux and Cheyenne had won one of their greatest victories at Little Bighorn, this victory actually […]
TOM HORN
On November 21, 1860 hired killer Tom Horn was born in Memphis, Missouri. Tom was raised on a farm, and like many young farm boys, he loved to roam the woods with his dog and rifle, hunting for game. He was an unusually skilled rifleman, an ability that may have later encouraged him to gravitate […]
BUTCH CASSIDY
On this date back in 1866 Robert Leroy Parker was born in Beaver, Utah Territory. But we know him as Butch Cassidy. Supposedly, he picked up the name “Butch” from the short period of time he worked in a Rock Springs, Wyoming butcher shop. The last name came from a minor criminal mentor by the […]
JIM BRIDGER BORN
On this date back in 1804 that great mountain man Jim Bridger was born. At the age of 20 Jim headed west along the routes that Lewis and Clark had pioneered. At the age of 21 he was the first white to see the Great Salt Lake…Incidentally; he thought it was the Pacific Ocean. Getting […]
