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05/09/2024

On This Day in American Fi****ms History..

☞Today in Old-West History -- On today’s date 101 years ago, Tuesday, September 5, 1922, noted reclusive & eccentric American millionaire heiress of the Wi******er Repeating Arms Co. fortune, & self-described curse victim Sarah Lockwood Pardee Wi******er (1840-1922), who is famous for building the so-called “Wi******er Mystery House,” gave up the ghost when she died in her sleep from the effects of heart failure at the venerable age of 81.

☞Requiéscat In Pace, Sarah Wi******er.

☞Sarah Wi******er was the wife of famous Victorian-Era fi****ms manufacturer William Wirt Wi******er (1837-1881) & the heiress to his estate & a 50 percent holding in the world-famous Wi******er Repeating Arms Company following his demise from the effects of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1881.

☞Note: William Wirt Wi******er was the son of Oliver Fisher Wi******er (1810-1880), namesake of the famous Wi******er lever-action rifle, which, along with the C**t revolver is known as one of the guns that “Won the West.”

☞According to legend, after the death of her husband & their only daughter, Sarah Wi******er felt that her family was cursed -- her family & fortune haunted by ghosts -- so she sought out spiritualists to determine what course of action to take. A Boston spirit medium told her that the Wi******er family was cursed by the spirits of all of the people who had ever been killed with Wi******er rifles, & that in order to appease these spirits she should move out West to build a house for herself & the spirits. Sarah was also told that if construction on the house ever stopped the spirits would kill her.

☞In 1884, Sarah moved to California along with her sister & her niece, & in 1886 she purchased an eight-room farmhouse which stood on 161 acres of land in what is now San Jose, California. She immediately began spending her $20 million inheritance on renovating & adding more rooms to the house, with construction continuing ‘round-the-clock over the next 36 years except for a brief period after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

☞The Wi******er Mystery House grew to seven stories in height until it was damaged by the infamous 1906 earthquake. After the earthquake damage was repaired & construction was resumed, the house was only four stories tall, but rooms continued to be added until Sarah’s death in 1922, at which time construction immediately ceased. The house is nowadays said to have “approximately” 160 rooms.

☞Since Sarah Wi******er’s death, her sprawling Wi******er Mystery House, which is known for its many staircases & corridors leading to nowhere, has become a popular tourist attraction, & it is now a San Jose Historic Landmark, a State of California Historic Landmark, & a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

☞The photograph depicts an undated photo of Sarah Wi******er, along with a photograph of the Wi******er Mystery House as it appeared before the 1906 earthquake, & a circa-1870s catalogue illustration of a Wi******er ’73 lever-action rifle -- “The Gun that Won the West.”

05/09/2024

On This Day in Western History 📖.. :€

Born September 5, 1878, Rose Elizabeth Dunn was best known for her romantic involvement with outlaw George “Bitter Creek” Newcomb in the days of the Old West.

Meet Rose Dunn, aka: The Rose of Cimarron - Hanging with the Doolin Dalton Gang https://www.legendsofamerica.com/rose-dunn/

05/09/2024

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05/09/2024

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☞Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun!

☞Today in Old West History -- On today’s date 173 years ago, Sunday, September 5, 1847, notorious Old West outlaw gang leader Jesse Woodson James (1847-1882), who was known both as an infamous bandit & a popular folk hero, was born in a log cabin in Clay County, Missouri, near the present-day city of Kearney.

☞It is curiously interesting that on one of their exploits, the James Gang happened to ride through the town of Ash Grove in Greene County, Missouri, where they were witnessed by a little girl named Arizona “Arrie” Clark. The sight of Jesse James & his gang riding through her home town triggered the child’s thirst for adventure & was a catalyst for her own life of crime to come.

☞Arrie Clark, born to a poor family of Irish & Scottish descent, was a headstrong girl with dark penetrating eyes & a nasty temper. Along with her siblings, she attended church regularly & spent her free time singing & playing the fiddle, but she grew up to become known as the infamous Tommy-Gun-wielding Prohibition-Era outlaw gang leader Arizona Donnie “Kate” Clark Barker (1873-1935), better known as Ma Barker, leader & matriarch of the murderous “Bloody Barker Gang.”

☞The undated left-hand photograph depicts the grim visage of infamous Prohibition-Era outlaw gang leader Ma Barker. The right-hand photograph depicts Ma Barker’s childhood anti-hero, the notorious Old-West outlaw gang leader Jesse James at aroound the age of 17.

☞It is noteworthy that both of the above-mentioned outlaw gang leaders personify the old adage “Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun,” as Jesse James met his demise at the age of 34 when he was shot in the back of the head by turncoat gang member Robert Ford, the infamous “Dirty Little Coward who shot Mr. Howard,” & Ma Barker met her demise when she was shot to death in a gun battle with G-Men, -- dead at the age of 61 with her Tommy Gun still clutched in her hands.

05/09/2024

On This Day in 'Hot damn, its gonna be a good day!' History.. :€

☞Today in History -- On today’s date 168 years ago, Thursday, September 5, 1850, legendary whiskey distiller Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel (1850-1911), founder of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Distillery & the Lynchburg Cornet Band, was born at the town of Lynchburg in Moore County, Tennessee.

☞In 1892, having become successful in his distilling business, & as a well-respected & civic-minded citizen, Jack Daniel decided that it was time for the City of Lynchburg to form an official town band.

☞Before the advent of radio & television, there wasn’t much to entertain the townspeople in small towns except for the town band. In fact, it is estimated that as many as 15,000 small-town bands existed in the United States in those days & they were a source of pride for every citizen.

☞With $227 & a Sears & Roebuck catalog, Jack Daniel purchased a full complement of nickel-plated instruments with cases. When they arrived three weeks later, Jack began helping to assemble the band. The Lynchburg Cornet Band began playing at every possible opportunity & were soon the most famous band in the region.

☞The first Lynchburg Band was made up of 13 musicians, including a number of Jack Daniel’s employees. Although their instruments were less than perfect, the band made up for it with enthusiasm –- mostly playing in the white gazebo that stood in the courthouse square.

☞The Lynchburg Cornet Band was disbanded sometime around 1914, but was re-formed in the 1970s as Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band. In 1978, they ordered exact replicas of the original instruments. Some were made in France, others special ordered, & some instruments acquired through collectors.

☞Note: We have been unable to determine the current status of Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band. We only know that nothing has been posted on their page since July 2014.

05/09/2024

Any cigar that readily identifies themselves as 'psyko' has me intrigued.. and a bit scared! Here's your 'Cigar of the Week'.. :€

05/09/2024

On This Day in Western History.. :€

On this day in 1836, Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion.
Born in Virginia in 1793, Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his father’s death; as a teenager, he ran away and lived for several years with the Cherokee tribe. Houston served in the War of 1812 and was later appointed by the U.S. government to manage the removal of the Cherokee from Tennessee to a reservation in Arkansas Territory. He practiced law in Nashville and from 1823 to1827 served as a U.S. congressman before being elected governor of Tennessee in 1827.
A brief, failed marriage led Houston to resign from office and live again with the Cherokee. Officially adopted by the tribe, he traveled to Washington to protest governmental treatment of Native Americans. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson sent him to Texas (then a Mexican province) to negotiate treaties with local Native Americans for protection of border traders. Houston arrived in Texas during a time of rising tensions between U.S. settlers and Mexican authorities, and soon emerged as a leader among the settlers. In 1835, Texans formed a provisional government, which issued a declaration of independence from Mexico the following year. At that time, Houston was appointed military commander of the Texas army.
Though the rebellion suffered a crushing blow at the Alamo in early 1836, Houston was soon able to turn his army’s fortunes around. On April 21, he led some 800 Texans in a surprise defeat of 1,500 Mexican soldiers under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River. Santa Anna was captured and brought to Houston, where he was forced to sign an armistice that would grant Texas its freedom. After receiving medical treatment for his war wounds in New Orleans, Houston returned to win election as president of the Republic of Texas on September 5. In victory, Houston declared that “Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations….It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”
Houston served as the republic’s president until 1838, then again from 1841 to 1844. Despite plans for retirement, Houston helped Texas win admission to the United States in 1845 and was elected as one of the state’s first two senators. He served three terms in the Senate and ran successfully for Texas’ governorship in 1859. As the War loomed, Houston argued unsuccessfully against secession, and was deposed from office in March 1861 after refusing to swear allegiance to the Confederacy. He died of pneumonia in 1863.

05/09/2024

On This Day in Western TV History.. :€

Western Trails Empty Saddles award for Western Film acting Remembers ... Hugh O'Brian passed into western film and TV history Sep 05, 2016 (age 91)
American Actor Remembered as a Television and movies Actor
Hugh O'Brian was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and the NBC action television series Search, as well as films including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians; he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist. He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development program for high school scholars which has sponsored over 400,000 students since he founded the program in 1958 following an extended visit with Nobel Peace Prize-winning theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer.

05/09/2024

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Born on this day in 1847, Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, guerrilla, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the War for Southern Independence. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers, including the Centralia Massacre. After the war, as members of various gangs of outlaws, they robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains.
The James brothers were most active as members of their own gang from about 1866 until 1876, when as a result of their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, several members of the gang were captured or killed. They continued in crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang who hoped to collect a reward on James' head. Already a celebrity when he was alive, James became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

05/09/2024

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Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. A year earlier, Crazy Horse was among the Sioux leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. The battle, in which 265 members of the Seventh Cavalry, including Custer, were killed, was the worst defeat of the U.S. Army in its long history of warfare with the Native Americans.
After the victory at Little Bighorn, U.S. Army forces led by Colonel Nelson Miles pursued Crazy Horse and his followers. His tribe suffered from cold and starvation, and on May 6, 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered to General George Crook at the Red Cloud Indian Agency in Nebraska. He was sent to Fort Robinson, where he was killed in a scuffle with soldiers who were trying to imprison him in a cell.

05/09/2024

On This Day in Western TV History..

Que Descanse En Paz - Rest in Peace – Hugh O‘Brian ♡✞♡

05/09/2024

Wintry weather has arrived! The section of the Going-to-the-Sun Road between Big Bend and Jackson Glacier Overlook is temporarily closed due winter weather conditions.

Currently 41.5 miles of the Going-to-the-Sun Road are open for travel. Visitors can drive 28.0 miles from the West Entrance to Big Bend, and 13.5 miles from the St. Mary Entrance to Jackson Glacier Overlook.

Call 406-888-7800 (press 2 for current road status) or visit http://home.nps.gov/applications/glac/roadstatus/roadstatus.cfm for current road status information.

Visit http://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/weather.htm for additional weather information.