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Texas facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  The Balcones Escarpment (so-called by the Spanish because its sharp profile suggests ... In all, Texas has about 3,700 identifiable streams, many of which dry up in the .... Texas wild rice and several cactus species are classified as endangered .... the Superfund program for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites in the state.
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This question originally aired on November 24,... | Jeopardy ...  ... November 24, 1997 Category: THE OLD WEST Question: When Abilene decided to clean up its image in 1871, it dismissed this wild marshal Answer: Wild...
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Bill Tilghman - Wikipedia  William Matthew "Bill" Tilghman, Jr. (July 4, 1854  November 1, 1924) was a career lawman and gunfighter during the Wild West days of Kansas and Oklahoma. He was city marshal in Dodge City, participated in the Kansas County Seat ... From September 1, 1871, to April 1, 1872, Tilghman was supposed to have killed...
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Abilene, Kansas - Queen of the Cowtowns - Page 2  Tom Smith's successor as a city marshal was the famous Wild Bill Hickok, who was ... and that the law would be enforced, he made little other attempts to "clean up the town. ... when shots were heard near the Alamo Saloon on October 5, 1871. ... through their town and two months later, dismissed Hickok as city marshal.
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American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century | Transcript - PBS  Narrator: The Chicago fire of 1871 was one of the great urban catastrophes of modern times. ... you know these Irish were not clean, they were throwing their garbage out. ... Marshall Field dreamed of a new store on State Street as he removed hay ... Narrator: Swift decided to slaughter the cattle in Chicago and ship only the...
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Views of the Past: Tom Smith: The Marshal Who Fought with his Fists  Dec 8, 2010 ... In the town, a group of armed men killed an employee of the railroad because they ... Smith was hired as Abilene's chief of police on June 4, 1870 by Mayor T.C. .... working in law enforcement in Abilene throughout 1871 as well. ... This book tells the stories of both Smith and "Wild Bill" Hickok in great detail.
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Hometown by Handlebar | Cowtown as seen from a very narrow ...  Jun 24, 2016 ... In Kansas in 1867 the Union Pacific railroad had just laid track ... The first Texas herd to follow the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene ... In Texas were small feeder trails that began in south Texas and merged ..... But the legacy of a cattle trail named for a Scots-Cherokee who was a trader, not a cattleman,...
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GC573A2 WildRide001 (Traditional Cache) in Wyoming, United ...  Jun 13, 2014 ... In 1936, Wyoming trademarked the image for the state's license plates. ... First Sergeant George N. Ostrom of E Battery, 3rd Battalion, 148th Field Artillery ... Clayton Danks, a Nebraska native who died in 1970 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, is believed to be the ... Legal: Logo Usage Guidelines  Parks & Police.
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J! Archive - Show #3061, aired 1997-12-15  A person who illegally took possession of another's mining area was called ... His "1873", known as The Peacemaker, was a favorite of quick-draw gunslingers...
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Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio: Abuse protected by the badge - OB Rag  Aug 23, 2010 ... 13  late April 1971  Vol. ... Gary Cooper won a Best Acting Oscar for that performance, while ... so incensed that any cop from the old west would have to beg for help, ... His propaganda, his ugly vision, is a world where the tough  and ... Arpaio was first elected sheriff in 1992 and with each subsequent...
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The American West as you've never seen it before: Amazing 19th ...  May 25, 2012 ... How the Wild West REALLY looked: Gorgeous sepia-tinted pictures show the ... survey west of the One Hundredth Meridian that lasted from 1871 to 1874. ... the landscape and thousands of pictures have survived from his travels. .... Silver mining: Here photographer Timothy O'Sullivan documents the...
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History of the Texas Ranger Division - Wikipedia  The historical roots of today's Texas Ranger Division trace back to the first days of ... By the early 1820s, the Mexican War of Independence had subsided, and some ... Austin returned to Texas after having been imprisoned in Mexico City and ..... agency was passed in 1935, and with an initial budget of $450,000, the DPS...
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History of the Texas Ranger Division - Wikipedia  The historical roots of today's Texas Ranger Division trace back to the first days of ... In their early days, Rangers performed tasks of protecting the Texas Frontier against ... Under Captain John Coffee "Jack" Hays' leadership, the force played an .... As Mexican law enforcement disintegrated with the collapse of the Diaz...
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History of Utah, 1540-1886: Chapter XXI. Political, Social, and ...  Though the Mormon authorities had no cause for complaint as to the conduct of the ... live-stock, and other articles of which they were in need, at their own rates. .... 23 Even in its business portion, Main Street had at this date many vacant lots, being .... in the land of the saints accomplishes a wonderful change, the contrast in...
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Belle Starr the Bandit Queen: How a Southern Girl Became a ...  Apr 3, 2013 ... The name Belle Starr doesn't have the weight it used to. .... The lovers of the "Wild Western Amazon" as one newspaper called her are said to ... and Sam for horse theft and transporting them to Fort Smith for the trial in 1883. ... off lightly with short prison sentences instead of nooses, for which Belle served...
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Ted Yeatman - Booknotes :: Watch  The disparity between these views of the outlaw Jesse James is often attributed to ... But once their careers in crime commenced, the James brothers eluded ... killed in 1882 by Bob and Charlie Ford while the three of them planned the robbery ... LAMB: Were you around the cemetery when the exhumation was conducted?
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PressReader - Texarkana Gazette: 2013-05-19 - History  May 19, 2013 ... The following year, Texarkana, Texas was legally incorporated and in the first ... In 1876, the city was granted a charter by the Texas state legislature and in January ... The government of Texarkana, Ark., was not organized until Nov. ... In July 1880, 21 citizens presented Miller County Judge M.W. Edwards a...
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Bat Masterson - Loyalty in Lawlessness - Legends of America  During his boyhood years he became an expert in the use of firearms, and ... of the hunters moved south and west into what was hostile Indian Territory. .... In 1893 he went to New York City at the request of a former superintendent of police, ... In about 1904, he became a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph.
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Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns : "the Wickedest Little City in ...  In the 1870s and 1880s the town was known as the wickedest in the American West. But gunmen, horse thieves ... Dodge City was as remarkable for the lawmen?Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilgham?as for the killers they finally tamed. ... Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns : "the Wickedest Little City in America," 1872-1886.
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Frontier Lawman: Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves - American ...  Feb 12, 2015 ... Frontier Lawman: Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves ... a haven for bootleggers, horse thieves and outlaw bands that took advantage of ... Marshal at Fort Smith, Ark. Through his appointed deputy marshals, he brought ... By 1875, Reeves and his family were living back in western Arkansas, and it was there...
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General George Armstrong Custer - Freepages - Ancestry.com  Custer established a reputation as an aggressive cavalry brigade ... 1865), Custer had achieved the rank of major general of volunteers, but was ... When he went west, the Plains Indians called him "Yellow Hair" and "Son of the Morning Star". .... when he was court-martialed at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas for being AWOL,...