New-York Times / March 28, 1886

GALVESTON, Texas, March 28. -- A special from San Antonio says: "A private dispatch received here yesterday conveys the intelligence of the assassination by Mexican outlaws of Mr. Lewis Feltner in Santa Clara Canon, Mexico, while en route from Jimulco to the silver mines in the State of Durango.

Galveston Daily News / Oct 6, 1892

COOKE COUNTY.

GAINESVILLE, TEX., Oct. 4. -- Stolen September 20, five mares, all branded E on left thigh. One black mare about 15 hands high, about 7 years old, with blaze face, with a little white on two or three feet, branded E on left thigh and diamond-cross-diamond on left shoulder. Two sorrel mares, both blaze face and look very much alike, about 7 or 8 years old, both branded E on left thigh and one of them is branded J U, with bar above, on left shoulder; they are about 14 hands high. One bay blaze-face filly, 3 years old, flax mane and tail, about 15 hands high,

New-York Times / February 3, 1890

DENVER, Col., Feb. 2. -- At Durango, Col., Beneditto Martinez and Jack Davis quarreled over the price to be paid for a piece of work, and Martinez was knocked down. The Mexican swore out a warrant for Davis's arrest, and while the latter was in Judge McHolland's court arranging his bail Martinez entered and fired at him, the ball passing through the body.

CHECK OUT our new gallery of Deadwood photos, and be sure to click the "larger" link in the captions for a close-up. Deadwood is, of course, the Dakota Territory frontier town famous in its day for stagecoach robberies, gold mining and cursin' cowboys, and famous in ours thanks to the television series on HBO. This photo by John Grabill is from around 1888.