The Dawn of Fury (85 page)

Bean was eventually evicted from the house for nonpayment of rent. That part of San Antonio is still known to some as “Bean Town.”

An exclusive district in the eastern part of New Orleans.

The St. Charles Hotel dining room was highly popular in Old New Orleans.

The term “honky-tonk” is Southern, attributed to the post-Civil War Negro.

The Thompsons were born in Knottingley, England, Ben in 1842 and Billy in 1845.

By 1869, the “pretty girl” concept had moved west to San Francisco.

Average consumption was a cord of wood an hour.

The “Texas” was named for the State of Texas. Nobody knows exactly why.

Cullen
Baker was born in Weakley County, Tennessee, in 1835.

McDonoughville existed until 1913, when it merged with Gretna.

A “center-fire rig” is a saddle with a single cinch in the center.

First demonstrated by its inventor, Richard J. Gatling, in 1862.

Near present-day town of Texarkana, which is on the state line between Arkansas and Texas. Texarkana was founded January 15, 1874.

Oldest settlement in Lee County. James Shaw and Titus Mundine (early settlers) gave the townsite in the early 1850's, naming the new town for Lexington, Massachusetts.

Lee County was officially created in 1874 and named for Robert E. Lee. Giddings, thirty-five miles south of Lexington, became the county seat.

Iron gray.

A common remedy used on open wounds of cattle, horses, and humans.

Dodge City was founded in 1872, eight miles west of the fort.

The Rockies.

Under the Gaslight
was written by rising playwright Augustin Daly.

City of Gold. In 1878, this became the site of Alamosa, Colorado.

The Rio Colorado rises in intermittent draws in northeast Dawson County, Texas, flowing six hundred miles across the state, crossing or touching twenty-eight Texas counties on its way to Matagorda Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

At this time, San Angelo was “San Angela.” The town's history began with the location of Fort Concho (1867) at the junction of the north and main Concho Rivers. Bart DeWitt established a trading post across the river on the nearest available site. The town was eventually named San Angela, honoring Mrs. DeWitt's sister, a Mexican nun. But the name had to be changed when the Federal government—prior to issuing a bank charter and establishing a post office—objected to the masculine “San” and the feminine “Angela.”

The White River, flowing southeast out of New Mexico.

Twenty miles northwest of present-day city of Amarillo.

Lake Meredith

In 1873, this village would become the town of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Near here, in 1867, the U.S. government and the five tribes of plains Indians—the Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa—met and agreed upon what became known as the Medicine Lodge Treaty. It was a dismal failure, and was the government's last attempt to make peace with the Indians. It was in Medicine Lodge (1899) that Carrie Nation began her antisaloon crusade.

The fledgling town became Dodge City in 1872, when the railroad arrived.

Near the present-day town of Liberty, the seat of Clay County.

The Chisholm Trail.

Crocodile Ranch

In 1873, the town of Cuero, Texas, was founded on Cuero Creek.

After accidentially shooting Williams to death, Hickok is not known to have ever fired another shot at a man.