Medora Day by Day, 1884–1886
Every event The Bad Lands Cow Boy reported, dated from the paper's own wording and laid out month by month. Filter by topic, or search the full text of the paper.
What the paper covered
Ranching fills the Cow Boy more than anything else, in more than 1,100 events: round-ups, cattle drives, brands and strays. Then come business and building, the railroad and the stage lines, politics, weather, the law and the town's social life. The Marquis de Morès and his enterprises appear in more than 300.
A weekly paper rarely gave full dates, so each event is dated from its wording. "Monday" in a Thursday paper means the Monday before. Items with no date are placed in the week before the issue. Every event links back to the item and the spot on the page it came from.
The timeline
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Try a name, a ranch, a brand or a place. Period spellings vary, so try "ranche" or "round up" too.
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193 ads from saloons, hotels, gunsmiths and cattle ranches, with their prices.