Wednesday, November 8, 1876. Third Cavalry returns to post.

The Third Cavalry returned from campaigning to Ft. D. A. Russell.

A well regarded Civil War artillery horse died.

Old Sam, War Horse

Mary Davis was elected Justice of the Peace in Tie Siding, Wyoming, a small town outside of Laramie Wyoming. She was the first woman in Wyoming to be elected to the position (there had been women appointed to justice of the peace previously).

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Tuesday, November 7, 1876. The Election of 1876.

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November 6, 1920. The death of John P. Woodward.

1920  U.S. Air Mail pilot John P. Woodward was killed when he flew into a snowstorm near Tie Siding, on his way from Utah to Cheyenne.  His plane crashed near Laramie, a few miles away.

From  here.

The 26  year old Woodward was flying a DH4 when the crash killed him.  He as last sighted over Laramie itself.  In his honor, Woodward Field was named after him at 22nd West and North Temple in Salt Lake City, the city which he had last departed from at 11:30 that morning.  He was to have landed in Laramie at 3:00 and nearly in fact made it.

Woodard Field is now the Salt Lake International Airport.

The Saturday Evening Post depicted a young woman having bobbed her hair.

She didn't look too happy about it in Coles Phillips' illustration.

Tuesday, November 6, 1900. The election of 1900.

Today In Wyoming's History: November 6: 

1900 A terrible train wreck occurred near Tie Siding in Albany County.

Bryan campaign poster. Bryan, of ocuse, lost.

1900     President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.  This go around Wyoming went with McKinley.  It's hard to say what caused Bryan to loose, when he'd done well before, in Wyoming, but it was also the case that Republican progressive Theodore Roosevelt, who was enormously popular in the West, was the the Vice Presidential candidate for the Republicans.  It would have been hard to find a figure more popular than Roosevelt at that time.  He's served as McKinley's Assistant Secretary of the Navy in McKinley's first term before resigning to serve as a volunteer cavalryman in the Spanish American War.

Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt would be regarded as a "left wing radical" by today's crop of MAGA Republicans.

A riot broke out at a polling station in Denver resulting in the police killing one person, and one policeman being killed.

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Thursday, November 1, 1900. Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus.

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