The day the Dalton Gang rode into Coffeyville and into the history books! Not actually a battlefield; more of a Wild West shootout. In a place even many of my American friends have never heard of! This little town in southeast Kansas was the scene of one of the great good guy-bad guy confrontations of the Wild West.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25-26, 1876, was a clash between the United States Army and the combined forces of Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. The battle took place in and around a major Indian camp along the Little Bighorn River in southeastern Montana Territory.
The Battle of Black Jack was a small skirmish with just a few casualties, but it was really the first violent confrontation between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. It presaged the Civil War that engulfed America in 1861.
The Colt Revolver is synonymous with America’s Old West, and this is where they were made! Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist renowned for revolutionizing repeating firearms with his invention of the Colt revolver. In 1836, Colt patented his first revolver design, the Colt Paterson, which featured a rotating 5-round cylinder, and single-action cocking.