Congress approved a joint resolution prohibiting the supply of metallic cartridges to "hostile" Indians, appreciating already that the Battle of Little Bighorn had featured effective native use of cartridge arms.
Frankly, this is appalling. Native Americans were defending their home grounds and this is the very basis of the Second Amendment. Of course, natives were not citizens at the time.
We can't help but note, however, that freedom's brave sentinel, the National Rifle Association, has been fascism's craven lap dog since 2016. I'm confident that if Donald Trump asked us to surrender our arms, the NRA would demand it.
A funeral notice appeared in Deadwood.
Died in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effects of a pistol shot, J. B. Hickock [sic] (Wild Bill) formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Funeral services will be held at Charlie Utter's Camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock P. M. All are respectfully invited to attend.
Notice placed by Charlie Utter in the Black Hills Pioneer.
Almost the entire community attended the funeral.
Utter was a close, and even doting, companion of Hickock's. He was an unusual frontiersman, being a family man (he had married his wife when she was only 15 years old) and at 5'6" tall he was meticulous in his appearance, sporting long black hair, a moustache (as any real man would) and wearing hand-tailored, fringed buckskins, fine linen shirts, beaded moccasins, and a large, silver belt buckle. He carried a pair of gold, silver, and pearl ornamented pistols.
He would not allow anyone into his tent, under pain of death.
Most unusual, he bathed daily.
He later lived contemporaneously in Leadville when my great grandfather and great grandmother lived there. Following that, he went to Durango, after having sadly divorced his wife. He ultimately moved to Panama, where he died blind, and remarried, in 1913.
It's really odd to think that my great grandparents, and hence my grandmother on my father's side, whom I knew and loved dearly, where part of all of this in some extended way.
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