from oldwestdailyreader for 10/27/: 1838 Missouri Govenor Lilburn Boggs issues Executive Order 44 which will come to be known as The Mormon Extermination Order. This will eventually have the effect of justifying driving the Mormons (some 10,000) from Missouri. 1873 Gunfight between “Rowdy Joe” Lowe and E.T. “Red” Beard: shotguns & pistols – West Wichita, KS. “Red” died of wounds two weeks later, “Rowdy Joe” left the county, (killed by Indians, Nebraska 1874). William Anderson blinded in the fight, saloon girl Annie Franklin shot in the stomach in a case of mistaken identity. 1973 Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane, Harry Leonard Albershart, age 64, died in Woodland Hills, CA; first hit, The Law West of Tombstone (1938). He played the fictional Red Ryder in: Santa Fe Uprising (1946), Stagecoach to Denver (1946), Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947), Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947), Oregon Trail Scouts (1947), Rustlers of Devil’s Canyon (1947), Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947). Between 1947 and 1953 as “Rocky Lane” in 30 “B” movies with his horse, Black Jack: Sundown in Santa Fe (1948), Hell Bent for Leather (1960), Posse from Hell (1961); the last two with Audie Murphy; later a television star and the voice of “Mr. Ed” (TV-1961).
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:30:15 +0000
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