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Wild Bill took part in his last gunfight on October 5, The town marshal of Abilene, he shot Texan Phil Coe dead, but also killed a friend, local jailer Mike Williams, who had rushed in to assist the marshal. Distraught and grieving, Wild Bill never again worked as a lawman. His power lies in the wonderful quickness with which he draws a pistol and takes his aim. After a failed career on the theatre stage, Wild Bill gravitated to the new boomtown of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, where he was shot from behind by the scoundrel Jack McCall on August 2, The grammar school in Murphy's Camp, California above , Albert Michelson attended as a boy was built in and is California's oldest school building in continuous use.
Fueled by riches of the gold claims, the ramshackle town rocked with gunfire, saloons and dance hall girls. At age 13, Albert was sent to high school in San Francisco. By his graduation in , his family had moved from the played out camp to the silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. When local Congressman Thomas Fitch announced he would appoint a state student to the U.
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Naval Academy, also known as Annapolis, on the basis of a written exam, Michelson almost secured the spot; he had tied with two others for first place. Yet Fitch appointed another candidate, who would later drop out of Annapolis.
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Fitch pleaded with President Ulysses S. In that episode, Ben Cartwright helped Michelson get into Annapolis by overcoming the prejudice against Jews. Cartwright then assisted the teenager in building a device out of wagon wheels to measure the speed of light.
The story is pure Hollywood, but it is based on real history. The Transcontinental Railroad had only been completed the previous month when Michelson left for Washington, D. He was given the sad news that the President had already made his 10 choices. Yet after meeting with Michelson at the White House, President Grant ended up bending the rules to make room for Michelson.
At Annapolis, Michelson excelled in science and boxing, and graduated ninth in his class. He returned to Virginia City in before he reported for two years of sea duty.
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After several tours, he was assigned to teach physics at Annapolis, where, in , he began his research that would lead him to become the first to accurately measure the speed of light. In , he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in physics, for his precision optical experiments.
He continued to refine his measurements of the speed of light for the rest of his life, but died in Pasadena, California, at the age of 78, before the experiment concluded; the final figure was announced, posthumously, in You can toast Michelson with a glass of wine at his childhood home, now housing Hovey Winery, in the heart of Murphys. N M Greg Bailey is a journalist, playwright and former attorney based in St. Louis, Missouri. The physicist also enjoyed painting, and the above photo shows him sketching his own portrait during his U. This photograph not only helped immortalize the frontier desperados, but also helped bring about the gang's downfall.
McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since. Over the past 65 years, he has amassed the largest collection of Old West outlaw and lawman photographs in the world. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are his favorite 65 from his collection, which extends beyond to cover all the pioneers who blazed trails on the frontier. Stilwell famously slipped through American Indian lines at the Battle of Beecher Island and walked through cactus needles to get a rescue crew.
Buckshot Bill Drover to Murderer Bill Doolin became Oklahoma Territory's most notorious outlaw, beginning his life of crime with the Dalton Gang and missing out on death during the Coffeyville shoot-out. This cabinet card by W. Marshal Heck Thomas.
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John Wesley Hardin is shown at age 18, from his personal photograph album, having finished his cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas, in His path had been bloody. While on the cattle trail, he killed four Mexicans. In Abilene, his murder spree continued. While staying at the American House Hotel, he shot a man in the next room, possibly for snoring too loudly.
On the back of this photo, Siringo made a notation identifying his partner as William B. Sayers at right ; Siringo protected his partner's identity in his book by calling him "W. Marshal Patrick S. Nagle replaced E. With such distrust in the law, field deputies faced cuts. Those who survived included front row, from left Deputy U. In the back row sits clerk of Pawnee County district court John H.
Havighorst and Assistant U. Attorney Roy Hoffman.
This undated cabinet card was taken at the Pawnee Gallery in Pawnee. Geronimo Photographer A. Frank Randall is credited with taking the first photographs of Chiricahua Apache Medicine Man Geronimo, in , at the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona Territory, including this menacing one of Geronimo kneeling while holding an Springfield carbine. Fly, of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, followed U. Army Gen. George Crook just across the border into Mexico to negotiate a surrender with Geronimo and his Chiricahua Apache band.
When Fly whipped out his camera at the Canon de los Embudos surrender site, he saved for posterity the only known images taken of American Indians during wartime. Included in those was this photo, showing Chiricahua Apache men, women and children, with mounted men in the back row. A vain man, the U. This portrait of Garrett was taken by James N. Tarantula Dancer Lola Montez, shown in , the year she arrived in California, became famous for her Tarantula Dance.
She captivated her spellbound audience with her suggestive dance, in which she revealed her petticoats while vigorously shaking her gown to rid herself of supposed spiders hiding in the folds. Morat, is one of two adult photos of the dentist who would become one of the West's most famous gunfighters, due to his role in Tombstone's Gunfight Behind the O.
This photo was passed down through the family from Holliday's favorite cousin, Mattie.
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McCubbin is known for collecting photographs with provenance, but he admits this one does not have a direct tie to the gunfighter to verify it is of "Buckskin Frank" Leslie. He believes it is him based on an authenticated headshot see right. Historians suspect the man standing could be John Kinney, who led a gang of horse thieves and cattle rustlers in New Mexico Territory during the ss. The Frontier Battalion consisted of six Texas Ranger companies, organized in , and this excellent cabinet card shows Company F, circa The First Gunlighter Arguably the first and greatest gunfighter of the Old West, lames Butler "Wild Bill" Flickok broke on the scene in an face-to-face duel against Dave Tutt—a gunfight so classic, it has become the prototype for almost every Flollywood gunfight ever filmed.
Flickok is shown with his cross-draw Navy Colt revolvers in this circa carte de visite by Charles Scholten of Springfield, Missouri. Grabill photograph taken in identifies this cowboy on horseback as "Fred Pierce, a noted cowboy of Wyoming. Bashful Bat Many folks hard pressed to name a famous Old Westerner would find the name "Wyatt Earp" on their lips, and that may all be thanks to Bat Masterson left. A former U. Army scout who gained renown as a tough sheriff, Masterson worked with and greatly admired Wyatt.
Lake sought out Wyatt and wrote the highly fictionalized biography that turned Wyatt into a legend.