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[2] [3] This same man named John Johnson was possibly in Tombstone according to the 1880 Census and may have ridden with Wyatt Earp, indicating "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson and John Johnson, the marshal, are likely one and the same. [citation needed] Johnson supposedly spent some time in Deadwood in the Dakota Territory in 1876. He is said to ...
East Turkey Creek Road, Pearce, Arizona (private property) 31°51′57″N 109°25′08″W / 31.865868°N 109.418852°W / 31.865868; -109. Nationality
Turkey Creek was part of areawide disasters including the all-time record Great Flood of 1844, which relocated the stream's mouth from the Missouri River westward to the Kaw (Kansas) River and erased all human settlement of the French Bottoms. [6] Another was the Great Flood of 1951.
Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado: Members of the Colorado Militia, in retaliation for theft and violence by Cheyenne Indians against settlers, attacked a village of Cheyenne, killing up to 600 men, women and children at Sand Creek in Kiowa County. 70–600 [263] [264] 1865: January 14: American Ranch Massacre: Colorado
The majority of outlaws in the Old West preyed on banks, trains, and stagecoaches. Some crimes were carried out by Mexicans and Native Americans against white citizens who were targets of opportunity along the U.S.–Mexico border, particularly in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Jonathan Carr, 44, and brother Reginald Carr, 46, terrorised Kansas community during a week-long crime spree in 2000 Two brothers convicted for murders of four strangers in ‘Wichita massacre ...
Quantrill's men burned a quarter of the town's buildings and killed at least 150 men and boys. [10] One of the main targets of the raid, abolitionist U.S. Sen. Jim Lane, escaped by fleeing into corn fields. [11] The Lawrence raid was the most deadly and infamous operation of Missouri's Confederate guerrillas.
On November 2, the group crossed the north fork of the Blue River into Kansas and camped at Oak Grove, which was probably renamed Elm Grove. On November 3, they reached Bull Creek, near Bulltown [58] (which became Paola, Kansas). The group reached the end of the journey, on the western bank of the Osage River, at Osawatomie, Kansas, on November ...