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On This Date in the Old West . . .

May 9

 
1887-Doc Holliday checks into a sanatorium in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, fighting tuberculosis.
1891-The Dalton gang robs the Santa Fe Limited in the Cherokee Strip of Indian Territory.





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This is a work in progress. Sources to date:
The West, Jon E. Lewis, Siena, 1998
The Old West: Day by Day, Mike Flanagan, Facts on File, Inc., 1995
Union Pacific Country by Robert G. Athearn, Rand McNally & Co., 1971
The First Five Years of the Railroad Era in Colorado, E.O. Davis, Sage Books, Inc., 1948
Wild and Woolly: An Encyclopedia of the Old West, Denis McLoughlin, Doubleday, 1975
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, Bill O'Neal, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1979
Guns of the Old West, Charles Edward Chapel, Coward-McCann, 1961
Gunfighters, Chris McNab, ThunderBay Press, 2005
The Authentic Wild West: The Outlaws, James D. Horan, Crown Publishers, 1977
Headlines from History, Fifty Memorable Front Pages from the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Publishing Company, April, 1984
Wells Fargo in Colorado Territory, W. Turrentine Jackson, Colorado Historical Society, 1982
The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965
The History of The Union Pacific: America's Great Transcontinental Railroad, Cahill & Piade, Smithmark Publishers, 1996
Trails of the Iron Horse, The Western Writers of American Doubleday & Co., 1975
This is the result of our research on what happened on this day in the Old west. It attempts to show what happened today in the old west for all fans, collectors and history buffs of the old west. What happened on this date in the old west is an on-going project and we will continue to update 'Today in the Old West' as we acquire more information. Your input is welcomed. If you have any information on what happened on this date in the old west, please let us know.
 

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