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Danny Miller and Wyatt Earp
Fri Mar 03, 2:17

"The Hireling", "The Horseman"and the newspaper wars

  • Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Thu Mar 02 17:32
    https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-12-18/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1896&index=1&rows=20&words=Danny+Miller&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1896&proxtext=Danny+Miller+&y... more
    • Danny Miller and Wyatt Earpgobs, Fri Mar 03 2:31
      How was this missed? Where's Kenny? https://nediscapp.herokuapp.com/discussion.cgi?disc=39627&article=22087 The paper said that Julian offered five names--Hiram Cook, Billy Jordan, Bob McArthur,... more
      • Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Fri Mar 03 3:55
        In the 1890's, Danny owned a couple of race horses. He was well known in the race track circles. The newspapers reported him to be a gambler, gunfighter and a horseman. His name was being reported during... more
      • Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Fri Mar 03 3:25
        https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-12-03/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1890&index=8&rows=20&words=Danny+Miller&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1905&proxtext=Danny+Miller+&y... more
        • Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt Earpgobs, Fri Mar 03 5:06
          A Ferguson of 1894 became Miller, the "game little plunger" of 1896, according to the SF Call ... now, left holding the Corbett-Sharkey forfeit money, he's become Daniel M. Ferguson, proprietor of a sand-blast... more
          • Re: Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Fri Mar 03 5:13
            According to his wife Tillie, he lost his money gambling.... https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1905-02-25/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1905&index=0&rows=20&words=Ferguson+Tillie&searchType=... more
            • Re: Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt Earpgobs, Fri Mar 03 5:23
              He's almost that mini Wyatt ... unable to find a more lucrative occupation or pastime to support a wife and child
              • Re: Re: Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Fri Mar 03 17:43
                The San Francisco Examiner Friday, March 20 1896.page 14 “ The wedding of Daniel Miller and Miss Tillie Benson took place recently at the home of the bride’s parents in Dixon, Solano County. After... more
                • Re: Re: Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt Earpgobs, Sat Mar 04 3:40
                  How confused was he? Robert ... still strange that later the SF Call [or its readers] weren't confused by the name change between the different articles ... they apparently all recognised him as the... more
                  • Re: Re: Re: Re: Danny Miller and Wyatt EarpRobert Buckley, Sat Mar 04 5:16
                    I believe that was the newspapers way of outing him to the larger population.After the newspaper realized what condition his wife Tillie was in ,His time in the limelight as Danny Miller was over. ... more
                    • Robert ... that's what I assumed, but the readers would have to be pretty savvy ... a big reveal by a rival newspaper? ... surely something happened between 1896-1906 ... he was Captain of the shipyard... more
    • Danny Miller and Wyatt Earp — gobs, Fri Mar 03 2:17