Since the ranchers trusted their foremen, most ranchers did not stay on their ranch except during shipping season. Foremen would find new born cattle and brand them with their own brand on their rancher’s property. The Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers Association (NWFSGA) was created out of anger from the rustlers, and tried to kill the seventy rustlers that they identified in Johnson County. The small compilation of rustling ended up in bloodshed. On April 9, 1892, NWFSGA members surrounded a cabin at the KC Ranch looking for Nate Champion.
In Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow, the Antagonist is known as the Headless Horseman, a paranormal being that terrorizes the town and beheading all of those who oppose him “…the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.” (Irving) His gruesome and tragic death dates back the American Revolution. According to Irving’s story a cannonball dismembered his head. The legend tells that every night since that day the Headless Horseman goes out
Allan Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency became a well-known and famous organization ("Allan Pinkerton ", 2013). Allan Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency had a few successes under his guidance. One of the most famous cases that Allan had was the assassination attempt President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. There was another case five years later for the capture of $700,000 in the Adams Express Company theft of 1866. Allan Pinkerton received his greatest honor when he was asked by six different Midwestern railroad companies to form an agency for railroad protection.
301 because of the size of its load when the train appeared and hit the trailer. A state trooper had actually been on the accident scene for several minutes attempting to help the driver with the difficult maneuver. Lt. Jeff Gordon, the state trooper assisting the truck driver, said that the driver just needed more time to make the turn and he was thinking of notifying Amtrak, but even before Gordon could notify the rail company, the New York-bound train arrived and hit the truck. John Devin Black of Claremont, the driver of the truck, was not in his trailer-truck when the Amtrak train slammed into the vehicle. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said no criminal charges would be filed against the driver of the Amtrak train or the truck-trailer.
On the day of March 25, 1947 marks a very important incident in the state of Illinois. It was a devastating day for Centralia. On this day, one hundred and eleven coal miners woke up to attend their job at the coal mine just as any other day. They had no idea they would never return home to their families. March 25, 1947 is the day 111 coal miners were killed during their routine daily duties at the Centralia Coal Mine.
Bokk This is a book review of Alex Rider – Stormbreaker by Jamie Lewin. Alex Rider - StormBreaker was written by Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker was published in 2006. The main characters of this book are Alex Rider, Mr Sayle, Mr Grin, Mrs Jones, Mr Blunt and Yassen Gregorovich. Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle Ian is killed. Alex discovers that Ian’s car is at a junkyard and finds dozens of bullet holes and blood on the seats that proving that his uncle was murdered.
President Lincoln's identified in his opening remarks the historical background of 1863. The town of Gettysburg was transformed by war. During a intense battle lasting three days over 85,000 Federal soldiers and 65,000Confederate soldiers battled within a twenty-five square mile area of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The number of wounded, missing and dead from this single battle was unprecedented at that time. This destruction for the North was estimated at greater than 3,100 reported dead and over 14,500 wounded.
The infamous Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland, occurred on September 17th, 1862, being known as one of the most gruesome and significant battles of the entire war. As described by Captain Robert Shaw, he shared his thoughts of the horrific day to a letter home to his parents. “Every battle makes me wish more and more that the war was over, “It seems almost as if nothing could justify a battle like that of the 17th, and the horrors inseparable from it.” There were a total of 6,000 plus causalities for both sides, making it one of the bloodiest, if not the bloodiest day in American history. McPherson even compared Antietam to historic battles such as Normandy, where McPherson described Antietam as having four times the amount of Normandy causalities on June 6, 1944. A United States Commission Official would describe the battle as “utter devastation and ruin” where “For four miles in length, and nearly half a mile in width, the ground is strewn with .
He was very suspicious about their message but after thinking about it he went too met up with him. He then brought with him ten men and one of then went walking with him to the front door, and as he was about to open the door. The solider inside opened the door and shot two bullets to Zapata at point blank Range without letting him letting him get out his pistol, Zapata’s army leader fell down never to rise from the ground again (guaitt, pg 29). “it was said that he was riding his white horse with his black clothing around the mountains for years after he was shot” (Guaitt, pg )16. Pancho villa and Emiliano Zapata both accomplished many things well they were alive in the revolution they got the government to give the land back.
The attack was labeled "the most lethal terrorism in human experience." Also, 9-11 was by far the worst terrorist attack on American siol. This attack took a lot of planning, many say it was "strategically planned" meaning they had everything very organized & in order. Not only was it very well planned, also the terrorists had arranged for the planes to crash into specific locations such as: the Twin Towers, the White House, & the Pentagon building in D.C. Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack.