When Bat Masterson’s parents, Thomas and Catherine, moved their family of four sons and two daughters to Sedgwick County, Kansas, in 1871, the boys, including Bat, helped their father build a sod house out on the prairie, most likely similar to this Sunflower State homestead.
Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Indian Territory lawmen in Muskogee were ever vigilant to prisoners escaping and accompanied prisoners on their rail trips to federal prison. Circa 1890.
USS Idaho BB-42 at Panama - October 1945
Note the 5”/38 secondary guns in single turrets, Installed during a refit in October 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Thomas Mcavoy Photographer
Interesting photograph of a horse drawn omnibus in London, England in 1865
Some of the men on the top appear to be holding or reading a newspaper.
Wonder if they may have been reading about the Civil War in America and events such as Lee’s surrender or the death of Abraham Lincoln that occurred that year?