WILD WEST JUN 69 *FIRST EDITION* TOM HORN – THE LARIAT - COWBOY HAT HISTORY & DESIGNS - COLT REVOLVERS

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN COWBOY

MASSACRE AT BEAR RIVER

LEGEND OF THE LARIAT

MILLION $ JACKASS – THE BUNKER HILL MINE IDAHO - Phillip O'Rourke filed the Bunker Hill mining claim on 10 September 1885, located along the west side of Milo Creek. Named after the Revolutionary War battle, the claim listed the date of discovery as 4 September, with Noah S. Kellogg as a witness. Similar claims were made by Noah Kellogg himself, Jacob Goetz and Cornelius Sullivan, which included the Sullivan claim on the east side of Milo Creek. Other claims followed, including the Last Chance by Charles Sweeny, the Stemwinder by George B. McAuley, and the Sierra Nevada by Van B. LeLashmutt. In all the stories recounting the original find, a jackass plays a key role in discovering the galena ore vein. A later court ruling awarded O.O. Peck and Dr. J.T. Cooper of Murray, Idaho, a quarter interest in the Bunker Hill claim, since those two provided the ore-discovering jackass as a grubstake to Noah Kellogg. Noah Kellogg subsequently leased the claim to Jim Wardner, who went on to found the town of Wardner, Idaho on 4 April 1886

AMERICAN BRONCO

MASSACRE AT BEAR RIVER - The Bear River Massacre, or the Engagement on the Bear River, or the Battle of Bear River, or Massacre at Boa Ogoi, took place in present-day Franklin County, Idaho on January 29, 1863. After years of skirmishes and food raids on farms and ranches, the United States Army attacked a Shoshone encampment, gathered at the confluence of the Bear River and Battle Creek in what was then southeastern Washington Territory, near the present-day city of Preston. Colonel Patrick Edward Connor led a detachment of California Volunteers as part of the Bear River Expedition against Shoshone tribal chief Bear Hunter. Hundreds of Shoshone men, women and children were killed near their lodges; the number of Shoshone victims reported by local settlers was higher than that reported by soldiers.

“TEN GALLON” COWBOY HAT – THE UMBRELLA OF THE WEST (FRONTIER, HORSESHOE, BUTTERFLY, FORT WORTH, WINCHESTER, CUTTING HORSE, DOG BONE, CATTLEMAN, LAZY SQUARE, PECOS, STETSON)

THE DAY THE WEST WENT FENCE CRAZY – BARBED WIRE DESIGNS

CATTLEMAN’S WAR AGAINST THE GRAY KILLER – THE WOLF

GUNS THAT TAMED THE WESTERN FRONTIER – COLT REVOLVERS

TOM HORN - THE HIRED KILLER - Thomas Horn, Jr., (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West. Believed to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman throughout the West,[2] Horn was convicted in 1902 of the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain, Wyoming. Willie was the son of sheep rancher Kels Nickell, who had been involved in a range feud with neighbor and cattle rancher Jim Miller. On the day before his 43rd birthday, Horn was executed by hanging in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

While in jail, he wrote his autobiography, Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter,[3] which was published posthumously in 1904. Numerous editions have been published in the late 20th century. Horn has since become a larger-than-life figure of western folklore, and debate continues as to whether he was actually guilty of Nickell's murder.