Volume 16 , Issue 36

NW Okie's Journey

I continue my daily walks through the Vallecito campground trails north of us. Our autumn season of turning aspens are peaking, or have peaked around here. The aspen trails around the campground are beginning to look a lot like a yellow brick road of falling golden aspen leaves that line the trail.

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Walking With Sadie

NW Okie took these Southwest Colorado Autumn photos this morning at her favorite walking trails just north of our place. Our golden aspens have been peaking lately, but whenever she can, NW Okie tries to capture every little bit of gold found amongst the forest green of the pines in the Colorado Rocky mountains.

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100 Years Ago, 20 October 1914, Tuesday

According to the front page headlines of The Daily Ardmoreite, dated Tuesday, October 20, 1914, "Big Show Is In the City Today." Barnum and Bailey's tented aggregation was showing to good crowds the afternoon of Tuesday, 20 October 1914.

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1921 Salt Springs Oklahoma Bank Robbery

We found a bit more information concerning Salt Springs, Oklahoma, established about 1920, but is a defunct town, located S36-T27N-R20W. Salt Springs, Harper County (1921-1927), was located on the Buffalo to Alva Railroad line on the north bank of Buffalo Creek near its junction with the Cimarron river. Salt Springs was located in eastern Harper county, in northwestern Oklahoma. The small town had a post office from 1920 to 1928.

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1895, Cupid and Bill Doolin

On page 4 of The Wichita Daily Eagle, dated 17 July 1895, we find this article concerning "Cupid and Bill Doolin." It seems The Eagle's old friend, Bill Doolin, the outlaw, was in a peculiar predicament. Doily was going through a train, dividing up his wealth with through passengers and equalizing the circulating medium of his particular part of the country, he was overtaken by a dark blue piece of hard luck. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, what this piece of hard luck was, doesn't it?

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1896 Oklahoma Outlines

It was on 9 July 1896, Thursday morning, that The Wichita Daily Eagle had the following article on page four concerning "Oklahoma Outlines."

We also find in 1896 that federal office holders of Oklahoma were for Temple Houston, and the republican central committee of Oklahoma would meet July 28, 1896.

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1896 Talk About Outlaw Doolin

In The Wichita Daily Eagle, page 6, dated 26 January 1896 (about six months before Bill Doolin was shot), we found this article with more information on the Oklahoma outlaw, Bill Doolin.

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How Oklahoma Outlaw, Bill Doolin, Died (1896)

According to the Arizona Republican, dated Wednesday, 2 September 1896, page one, we find the article entitled, "How Bill Doolin Died." The noted outlaw, Doolin, gone at last was the subhead of the newspaper that day in 1896. The identification was beyond doubt, the reward paid, and his reformation postponed.

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