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
And my only point was an is that Wyatt Earp was a claim jumper. One can take the position that he was challenging Prichard's claims - and Prichard made more than one claim. Prichard eventually won all... more
Butch ... All I've ever ascertained is that Prichard and his associates [it isn't clear who actually discovered the initial claims) made countless illegal claims by proxy for people living outside the... 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
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... more
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