Tomorrow is Frontierado, the holiday celebrated the first Friday of August each year. My main post will go up tomorrow, but for now here's another seasonal item. SIDNEY, NE - When it comes to Wild West towns places like Tombstone, Dodge City and Dea…
Tomorrow is Frontierado, the holiday celebrated the first Friday of August each year. My main post will go up tomorrow, but for now here's another seasonal item.
Sidney today
SIDNEY, NE - When it comes to Wild West towns places like Tombstone, Dodge City and Deadwood get the lion's share of the attention. In keeping with Balladeer's Blog's overall theme here's a look at some of the action in the neglected town of Sidney, NE. Figures like Wild Bill Hickok, Luke Short, Susan B Anthony, Whispering Smith and Dom Pedro II of Brazil passed through Sidney in its heyday. Here's a timeline of just some of the events in the town infamous as "The Wicked Burg":
April 29th, 1868 – Daniel Richardson, Thomas Cahoon and William Edmondson became the first recorded dead men buried in Sidney's Boot Hill Cemetery. All three men were killed in a clash with Native Americans.
May ?, 1875 - Susan B Anthony delivered a lecture in Sidney advocating women's suffrage.
October 24th, 1875 - At the Capitol Saloon the livery stable owner Robert W Porter and Charles Patterson got into an argument (the subject is not known) that resulted in Patterson shooting Porter to death with 3 shots. Patterson was placed under arrest.
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