Thanks again Robert ... I had my suspicions about then Earp neophyte Isenberg and presumed he got his information second-hand
There's nothing in there that Tefertiller hasn't covered, but according to this book Earp first met Ferguson on the way to Rathdrum before Coeur d'Alene ... Ferguson was with his partners, Jack Enright and Alfred Holman
Wyatt Earp & Coeur d'Alene Gold!
Stampede To Idaho Territory
Jerry Dolph & Arthur Randall
Published by Eagle City, 1999 [2000]
ISBN 10: 0-9671058-0-3 ISBN
In this newspaper, D.S. Miller has returned to Lake Valley, New Mexico from Coeur d'Alene,Idaho. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090373/1884-10-10/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1881&index=2&rows... more
Big disappointment ... short sensationalist stories ... no index ... repeats the "fact" that Wyatt was a claim jumper rather than the whole legal entanglements involved ... see "Wyatt Earp & Coeur D'Alene... more
against Wyatt Earp. And most of those suits were still pending when Wyatt Earp left that area. Eventually, Wyatt lost most of those suits, but it didn't matter. Wyatt had picked those claims clean and... more
Butch ... all I CLAIMED is that the article repeats the "fact" that Wyatt was a claim jumper rather than the whole legal entanglements involved ... in a battle between a multitude of claim jumpers and... more
Thanks Gobs...I've been looking at contemporary newspaper accounts of Dan Ferguson killing Thomas Steele . The newspapers state that Dan Ferguson was 23 years old and from Nebraska . His father's name... more
Gobs and Robert, Silva cites a letter from Stuart Lake saying that Danny Ferguson served with Wyatt as deputy sheriffs in Coeur d'Lane, so it sounds like that makes it a lock. However, I'm curious what... more
Re: Coeur d' Alene , Idaho — gobs,Fri Feb 17 10:01
Thanks for the insight here. I have the Coeur d'Lane Gold book, but unfortunately I only have a handful of my books with me at the moment due to a lot of traveling. Ben