On June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, Gen George Armstrong Custer ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. [CUSTER'S LAST STAND]
On July 14, 1881, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, was gunned down by an ambitious sheriff. The felling of one of the most notorious criminals of the age was instantly national news.
Tensions between Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys explode in the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/wyatt/
In 1909, Geronimo told his nephew, “I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/the_films/episode_4_about
In 1926, just a few months before her death, Will Rogers described Annie Oakley as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oakley/
On September 7, 1876, Jesse James led a group of eight bandits into Northfield to rob the First National Bank. His most ambitious operation would end in the greatest disaster.
