Calamity Jane | Timeline

Martha Jane Canary or Cannary (May 1, 1852 (or 1856) – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman and professional scout known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting against Native Americans. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted frontier figure. She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire. Much of what she claimed to have witnessed and participated in cannot be proven. It is known that she had no formal education and was an alcoholic. (Intro from Wikipedia)

May 1, 1852 - Princeton, Missouri - Traditional Martha Jane Canary birthday
June 14, 1855 - Polk County - Robert W. Canary and Charlotte M. Burge are married
April 28, 1856 - Princeton, Missouri - Canary family settles in Princeton, Missouri. Martha's grandfather James buys 320 acres of land from Hiram Overstreet, while Charlotte is days away from childbirth
May 1, 1856 - Princeton, Missouri - Recent evidence indicates that Martha "Calamity Jane" is born in this day
October 8, 1859 - Princeton, Missouri - Martha's grandfather James sells 180 acres of land to Robert and Charlotte Canary, her parents
January(?) 1(?), 1865 - Virginia City, Montana - Robert Wilson Canary moves with his family by wagon train to Virginia City, Montana
January(?) 1(?), 1866 - Blackfoot, Montana - Martha Jane's mother, Charlotte M. Canary, dies of pneumonia
April(?) 1(?), 1866 - Virginia City, Montana - Arrives in Virginia City in the Spring
August(?) 1(?), 1866 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Robert Wilson Canary and his daughters arrive in Salt Lake City, where he begins farming on 40 acres of land
May(?) 1(?), 1867 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Robert Wilson Canary dies, less than one year after arriving in Salt Lake City
May 1(?), 1868 - Fort Bridger, Wyoming - 14-year-old Martha Jane takes her 5 younger siblings to Fort Bridger, Wyoming
June(?) 1(?), 1868(?) - Piedmont, Wyoming - The 6 children travel on the Union Pacific railroad to Piedmont, Wyoming
September 25, 1873 - A daughter named Jean is reportedly born of a relationship between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok
January(?) 1(?), 1874 - Fort Russell (Cheyenne, Wyoming) - Martha Jane finds work as a scout, aswell as prostitute at the Fort Laramie 'Three Mile" hog ranch =(START)
May 20, 1875 - Fort Laramie, Wyoming - Calamity Jane is the theme of conversation between Valentine T. McGillycuddy, Colonel Dodge, Henry Newton and Horace Tuttle. Not even 16-years-old, with a sombrero, spurs and chaps, Dodge says she is the regimental mascot "Calamity Jane", who nurses sick soldiers, mends their clothes and cooks for them. Although, she doesn't know the meaning of morals, and they can easily tell that she plans to join the Newton-Jenney expedition to the Black Hills
May 25, 1875 - Fort Laramie, Wyoming - Calamity Jane participates in the Newton-Jenney scientific expedition of 1875
June 14, 1875 - French Creek, Black Hills, South Dakota - The expedition reaches French Creek. Small amounts of gold are found
June 19, 1875 - (While in French Creek, Black Hills, South Dakota) - The "Chicago Tribune" publishes a story about Calamity Jane, claiming that she had been a "respectable proprietress of a millinery store in Omaha" until she became an alcoholic
October 14, 1875 - Fort Laramie, Wyoming - The Newton-Jenney expedition returns to Fort Laramie
February 22, 1876 - Fagan's road ranch (Between Fort Laramie and Cheyenne) - Calamity Jane is spotted travelling with the soldiers to Fort Russell
March 1, 1876 - Fort Fetterman, Wyoming - Departs northward with Crook's troops
March 17, 1876 - A Cheyenne and Sioux village is attacked after days of subzero temperatures and snowstorms
April 1(?), 1876 - Custer City, Black Hills, South Dakota - Calamity Jane arrives in Custer City driving on of the teams of a government mule train. Dressed in buckskin suit and with a belt with two colt pistols, she looked like the toughest women anybody had ever seen
June 10, 1876 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Jane rents a horse an buggy for a one-mile joy ride to Fort Russell and back, but she is so drunk that she passes right by her destination without noticing it

June 11(?), 1876 - Fort Laramie, Wyoming - Calamity Jane ends up about 90 miles (140km) away at Fort Laramie
July 1(?), 1876 - Fort Laramie - Calamity Jane (officially) meets Wild Bill Hickok. They join a wagon train headed north
July 15, 1876 - Deadwood, Dakota territory - Hickok and Calamity Jane's wagon train arrives in Deadwood, Dakota
August 3, 1876 - Deadwood, Dakota - Calamity Jane attends "Wild Bill" Hickok's funeral
January 1(?), 1877 - Custer City, Black Hills, South Dakota - According to the "Cheyenne Daily Leader", in January, Calamity Jane was "married and settled down at Custer City"
September 1(?), 1878 - Sturgis, South Dakota - Trip to Sturgis
October 1(?), 1878 - Sturgis, South Dakota - The "St.Paul Pioneer Press" reposts that Calamity Jane "is now a respected resident of Sturgis City, and the proprietress of a successful laundry"
February 1(?), 1879 - Sturgis, South Dakota - Calamity Jane wallops two women
March 8, 1879 - Rapid City, South Dakota - Arrives in Rapid City from the north
May(?) 1(?), 1879 - Omaha, Nebraska - Calamity Jane boards the luxury steamboat "Dacotah" on her maiden-voyage northward up the Missouri River
May 23, 1879 - Yankton, South Dakota - The "Dacotah" passes through Yankton
June(?) 1(?), 1879 - Fort Pierre, South Dakota - The "Dacotah" reaches Fort Pierre. Calamity Janes continues to the Black Hills
July 1(?), 1879 - Deadwood, Dakota territory - Returns to Deadwood, finding work as a dancing-hall girl at Swearingen's Gem Variety Theatre
July 15, 1879 - Deadwood, Dakota territory - Calamity Jane falls seriously ill (congestion of the bowels)
November 1(?), 1879 - Fort Pierre, South Dakota - Calamity Jane recovers and makes a brief trip back to Fort Pierre
December 1(?), 1879 - Sturgis, South Dakota - "The queen of the dance house" returns to Sturgis
April 20, 1880 - Rapid City, South Dakota - Back in Rapid City
January(?) 1(?), 1881 - near Miles City, Montana - Jane buys a ranch west of Miles City, Montana
July 4, 1882 - Miles City, Montana - Spends the 4th of July in Miles City
September 1(?), 1882 - Billings, Montana - Calamity Jane moves to Billings as Miles City was "virtually dead"
November 30(?), 1882 - near Miles City, Montana - First verified child is born, when Jane is living with rancher Frank King
January 30, 1883 - Muir City, Bozeman Pass, Montana - Calamity Jane is reported "on one of her jamborees"
August(?) 1(?), 1884 - Buffalo, Wyoming - Calamity Jane leaves Montana and spends Summer in Buffalo, Wyoming
December 1(?), 1884 - Rawlins, Wyoming - The "Carbon County Journal" reports Calamity Jane's presence in Rawlins
July 1(?), 1885 - Rawlins, Wyoming - Visit to Rawlins. Calamity Jane participates in a bar brawl
January(?) 1(?), 1886 - Crawford, Nebraska - Calamity Jane arrives in Crawford, Nebraska, a city springing near the military post after the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad is built
June 1(?), 1887 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Calamity Jane is arrested for drunkenness. In court she presents the judge with a doctor's certificate of pregnancy
October 28, 1887 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Daughter Jessie is born (who is adopted by foster parents)
January(?) 1(?), 1893 - Castle City, Montana - Managing a restaurant (probably with her daughter Jessie)
December 1(?), 1893 - Billings, Montana - Visit to Billings, Montana, with her daughter Jessie
January(?) 1(?), 1894 - Gilt Edge | Ekalaka, Montana - Calamity Jane is arrested for drunkenness again. Seen with her daughter in Ekalaka, Montana
January(?) 1(?), 1895 - Deadwood, South Dakota - Calamity Jane returns to Deadwood and tells others she needs money to enrol Jessie in a convent school at Sturgis
January 1(?), 1896 - Sturgis, South Dakota - Calamity Jane manages to take Jessie to St.Martin's Academy in Sturgis
January(?) 1(?), 1898 - Billings | Bridger, Montana - Calamity Jane and Jessie arrive in Billings. Doing laundry in Bridger
April 1(?), 1899 - Billings, Montana - Calamity Jane arrives from Bridger, looking for her husband, Robert Dorsett, who had skipped "for parts unknown with a younger and handsomer girl"
May 1(?), 1899 - Lewistown, Montana - Calamity Jane and Robert Dorsett travel north to Lewistown looking for a job
July 1(?), 1899 - Utica, Montana - After not finding job in Lewistown, Calamity Jane informs the local newspaper editor that she is living in Utica, working as a cook at the Judith Hotel Cafe
October(?) 1(?), 1899 - Horr (Aldridge, Montana - a ghost town since 1910) - Calamity Jane and Rober Dorsett separate. Dorsett takes Jessie to Livinston, while Calamity Jane spends the Fall and Winter in Horr, selling her photographs and life story
April(?) 1(?), 1903 - Belle Fourche, South Dakota - Calamity Jane returns to Belle Fourche, where she earns her keep by cooking and doing the laundry for Dora DuFran's brotherl girls
July 1(?), 1903 - Terry, South Dakota - Calamity Jane arrives by train to Terry, South Dakota

August 1, 1903 - Terry, South Dakota - Calamity Jane dies of pnemonia and inflammation of the bowels, aged 51 (or 47) =(END)


Bibliography
McLAIRD, James D. - "Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend" - University of Oklahoma Press
MITCHELL, Steven T. - "Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story" - Xlibris

Jesse James | Timeline

Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of western Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of participating in atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre in 1864. (Intro from Wikipedia)

September 5, 1847 - Kearney, Missouri - Jesse Woodson James is born
August 18, 1850 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Reverend Robert Sallee James, Jesse's father, dies in California
September 30, 1852 - Kearney, Missouri - Zerelda James, Jesse's mother, marries Benjamin Simms, a wealthy farmer
January 2, 1854 - Kearney, Missouri - Benjamin Simms is killed when he is thrown by his horse. A relief to brothers Frank and Jesse, who were reportedly victims of their stepfather's cruelty
September 25, 1855 - Kearney, Missouri - Zerelda James marries Dr.Reuben Samuel
November 3, 1856 - Kearney, Missouri - Dr.Reuben Samuel assumes legal guardianship of Zerelda's children
December 26, 1858 - Kearney, Missouri - Sister Sarah is born
May 4, 1861 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Jesse's older brother Frank join the Missouri State Guard (part of the Confederate Army) at 18
August 10, 1861 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Frank James fights at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, in Missouri
July 1(?), 1862 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Frank James joins William Clark Quantrill's raiders
May 1(?), 1863 - Kearney, Missouri - A union militia raids the James-Samuel farm looking for Frank James. Reuben Samuel is tortured by being briefly hanged from a tree. Reportedly, young Jesse is lashed
August 21, 1863 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Quantrill leads a massacre in Lawrence, Kansas. After robbing two banks and other buildings, they set them on fire. Some 180 people are killed including women and children. It's doubtful, but Jesse James might have been present, as he later bragged about it

16-year-old Jesse James, 1864

April(?) 1(?), 1864 - Clay County, Missouri - Frank James returns to Missouri in a squad of William C.Quantrill's Raiders (commanded by Fletch Taylor). 16-year-old Jesse joins his group =(START)
June(?) 1(?), 1864 - Clay County, Missouri - Jesse James is introduced to guerrilla warfare, as Taylor uses his "gang" as a death squad, going house to house to murder unionist farmers
July(?) 1(?), 1864 - Clay County, Missouri - Frank and Jesse James join William T.Anderson's bushwhacker group in the Summer. "Bloody Bill", how he was called, used to tie a knot in a silken cord every time he made a kill
July 4, 1864 - Waverly, Missouri - William “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his men attempt to seize the steamboat Live Oak at Waverly; unsuccessful, many have their pictures taken, including 16-year-old Jesse JamesWilliam “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his men attempt to seize the steamboat Live Oak at Waverly; unsuccessful, many have their pictures taken, including 16-year-old Jesse James
July 12, 1864 - Carroll County, near Wakenda - Bloody Bill Anderson crosses the Missouri River into Carroll County near Wakenda
July 14, 1864 - Chariton County, near Salisbury - Bloody Bill stops a mail coach near Salisbury. A soldier and a passenger are killed
July 15, 1864 - Huntsville, Missouri - Bloody Bill occupies Huntsville. A civilian is killed and $45,000 are taken
July 23, 1864 - Renick, Missouri - Skirmish with Union militia. Five guerrillas are killed
July 24, 1864 - Between Fayette and Huntsville, Missouri - Skirmish with Union militia. One guerrilla killed, two federals are scalped
July 31, 1864 - Clay County, Missouri - Bloody Bill Anderson meets Fletcher Taylor in Clay County. In Carroll County "again there was a carnival of blood and arson. Houses were burned. Home guard units were ambushed, men were shot, scalped and stripped" (Richard Brownlee)
August 12, 1864 - Fredericksburg, Ray County - Anderson and Taylor's guerrillas ambush and kill 5 union soldiers
August  14, 1864 - SE of Carrollton - Jesse James is seriously wounded in the chest during a milita attack
August 30, 1864 - Rocheport, Missouri - Anderson captures the steamboat "Buffington", its captain is killed.
September 23, 1864 - E. of Rocheport, Boone County, Missouri - William T.Anderson's guerrilla company engages in a skirmish with union soldiers - eleven of them are killed aswell as three black civilian teamsters
September 24, 1864 - Fayette, Missouri - Union troops respond by shooting six of Anderson's captured guerrillas. Anderson attacks the pro-union town of Fayette, but looses 13 men and 30 others are wounded in the failed attack
September 27, 1864 - Centralia, Missouri - Centralia massacre and Battle of Centralia - 23 union soldiers returning by train from the Battle of Atlanta are executed (their sergeant is made POW) by William T.Anderson's confederate guerrillas. In the ensuing Battle of Centralia, Anderson's 80 experienced guerrillas kill 123 of 147 union cavalry troops commanded by Major A.V.E. Johnston. The shot that killed Johnston is fired by future outlaw Jesse James
October 6, 1864 - Boonville, Missouri - Anderson and his men travel to Boonville to meet General Price and be assimilated by the Confederate Army
October 14, 1864 - Danville, Montgomery County - Three civilians and two soldiers are killed in an attack
October 15, 1864 - High Hill, Montgomery County - Anderson's guerrillas destroy the railroad depot in High Hill. Five civilians are killed
October 24, 1864 - Carroll County, Missouri - Five people killed in Carroll County
October 26, 1864 - Albany, Missouri - Anderson's group is pursued by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P.Cox and 150 experienced men. In the ensuing battle, "Bloody Bill" Anderson is killed. His cord had 53 knots
November(?) 1(?), 1864 - Sherman, Texas - Goes to Texas under the command of Archie Clement
January 29, 1865 - (While in Sherman, Texas) - Dr.Reuben Samuel and Zerelda are ordered to take their children and leave the state. They settle in Rulo, Nebraska
April 1(?), 1865 - Sherman, Texas - Archie Clement and his 70 bushwhackers depart to Missouri
May 9, 1865 - (While near Lexington, Missouri)(?) - End of the Civil War. Jesse James never ceases to be a confederate supporter all his life =(noflagchange)
May 15, 1865 - near Lexington, Missouri - 17-year-old Jesse James is shot in the chest while trying to surrender after skirmishes with a Union cavalry patrol
May 16, 1865 - near Lexington, Missouri - Jesse James drags himself to a field, where he is found by a plowman
June(?) 1(?), 1865 - Rulo, Nebraska - When he regains some strenght, he is helped by friends to travel to his mother's new house in Rulo, Nebraska
February(?) 1(?), 1866(?) - Harlem, Missouri - Jesse James recovers from his chest wound at his uncle's boardinghouse. He is tended to by his first cousin Zerelda "Zee" Mimms
February 13, 1866 - Liberty, Missouri - First daylight armed bank robbery in US history. The robbery of the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri. During the gang's escape, with $58,000 in cash and bonds, an innocent bystander is shot dead
June 13, 1866 - Jackson County, Missouri - The gang frees two jailed members of Quantrill's gang, killing the guard in the action
October 30, 1866 - Lexington, Missouri - The gang steals $2,000 from Alexander Mitchell and Company
November 15(?), 1866 - Lexington, Missouri - Archie Clement's 100 former bushwhackers arrive in Lexington on election day. Their gunfire and intimidation lead to the defeat of the Republican Party in the election
December 13, 1866 - Lexington, Missouri - Archie Clement's bushwhackers return to Lexington. Clement is killed by the state militia
March 2, 1867 - Savannah, Missouri - The Judge John McClain Banking House of Savannah, Missouri, is robbed by the James-Younger gang
May 23, 1867 - Richmond, Missouri - Bank robbery in Richmond, Missouri (Hughes and Wasson Bank). The mayor and two lawmen are killed
March 20, 1868 - Russellville, Kentucky - Frank and Jesse join Cole Younger in a bank robbery in Russellville, Kentucky (Nimrod Long Banking Co.)
December 7, 1869 - Gallatin, Missouri - Bank robbery of the Davies County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. Jesse kills the cashier, Captain John Sheets, mistakenly believing him to be Samuel P.Cox, the officer who had killed "Bloody Bill" Anderson in 1864. Jesse James becomes a famous outlaw
June 3, 1871 - Corydon, Iowa - Bank robbery in Corydon, Iowa. The Ocobock Brothers' bank of Corydon contacts the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago
April 29, 1872 - Columbia, Kentucky - Bank robbery in Columbia, Kentucky. The cashier is shot for refusing to open the safe
September 23, 1872 - Kansas City, Missouri - Jesse James, Cole and John Younger, and Jim Chiles, take some $900 from a ticket booth of the Second Annual Kansas City Industrial Exposition
May 27, 1873 - Ste.Genevieve, Missouri - Robbery of the Ste.Genevieve Savings Association
July 21, 1873 - W. of Adair, Iowa - The James-Younger gang derail a locomotive of the Rock Island Line train. The engineer dies in the crash. Using Ku Klux Klan masks, Jesse James and his associates steal $2,337 from the express safe. It is the first train robbery west of the Mississippi River
November 24, 1873 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - John Newman Edward, a journalist from the St.Louis Dispatch, publishes a supplement to the newspaper, titled "A terrible quintet", in which the James brothers, Cole and John Younger and Arthur McCoy (but mostly Jesse James) are glorified
January 8, 1874 - Bienville Parish, Louisiana - The James-Younger gang is suspected of holding up a Monroe-Shreveport stagecoach
January 15, 1874 - between Malvern and Hot Springs, Arkansas - Stagecoach robbery. The gang takes cash and jewels valued $3,000
January 31, 1874 - Gads Hill, Missouri - Robbery of a southbound train on the Iron Mountain Railway. The Adams Express Company, owner of the robbed stafe, hires the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
March 11, 1874 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - John W.Whicher, the agent sent to investigate the James brothers, is found dead in Jackson County
March 17, 1874 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - John Younger is killed in a gunfight with three lawmen. One of them, deputy sheriff Edwin B.Daniels is also killed. Jim Younger escapes]
April 23, 1874 - Kansas City, Missouri - Jesse James marries Zerelda Mimms after 9 years of courtship. The wedding ceremony is performed by Methodist Minister William James, Jesse's uncle
May(?) 1(?), 1874 - Galveston, Texas - Honeymoon on the Gulf of Mexico. Jesse James is tracked by a reporter from the "St.Louis Dispatch". In Austin, a stagecoach robbery in credited to members of the gang, who take $3,000
August 30, 1874 - across the Missouri River, from Lexington, Missouri - Frank, Jesse and another associate hold up a stagecoach across the Missouri River from Lexington, Missouri.
December 8, 1874 - near Muncie, Kansas - Robbery of a train on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, gaining the gang $55,000
January 25, 1875 - Kearney, Missouri - Allan Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton detective agency, raids Jesse James' house. Detectives throw an incendiary device into the house, killing James's young half-brother Archie and blowing off the right arm of his mother, Zerelda Samuel. Frank and Jesse had been there earlier
April 12, 1875 - (While in Kearney, Missouri) - Daniel Askew, a neighbor suspected of providing the Pinkertons information for their raid is shot dead by an unknown gunman. Allan Pinkerton abandons the chase to the James-Younger gang
May(?) 1(?), 1875 - Nashville, Tennessee - The James brothers move to the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee
August 31, 1875 - Nashville, Tennessee - First son Jesse Edward "Tim" James is born
September 5, 1875 - (While in Nashville, Tennessee) - Part of the gang appears in Huntington, West Virginia, where another bank is robbed
July 7, 1876 - near Otterville, Missouri - Robbery of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
August 1, 1876 - Pecos Valley, SE New Mexico - 29-year old Jesse James and 17-year old Billy the Kid begin raiding the Chisum-Tunstall-McSween herds, selling the stolen cattle to Murphy
September 1(?), 1876 - St.Paul, Minnesota - The James-Younger gang takes the train to St.Paul, Minnesota
September 7, 1876 - Northfield, Minnesota - Failed robbery of the First National Bank of Northfield. The civilians fire at the gang, killing two of them. The other six, are all shot and wounded, taking only a few bags of nickels
September 21, 1876 - South Dakota / Nebraska border - The gang decides to split up after the failed robbery. While the James brothers flee on horseback to the South Dakota/Nebraska border area,  the Youngers and Pitts remain on foot, being cornered south of La Salle, Minnesota. After a gunfight, Pitts is killed and the Youngers surrender, pleading guilty to murder in order to avoid certain execution
February 28, 1878 - Humphreys County, Tennessee - Twins Gould and Montgomery James are born, but die the same day
June 17, 1878 - Nashville, Tennessee - Daughter Mary Susan James is born

Robert Ford and Jesse James

July 26, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Billy the Kid has dinner at the Adobe Hotel with his old friend Dr. Henry Hoyt, who was now working at the Exchange Hotel in Vegas. Also having dinner with them is Billy's new friend which he introduces as Mr. Howard. Later, when Billy and Mr. Howard go their seperate ways, Billy tells Hoyt that his friend is really Jesse James, who was asking him to join his gang. However, Billy the Kid wasn't inclined to become a bank and train robber.
October 8, 1879 - near Glendale, Missouri - Not adapted to peace like his brother Frank, Jesse and his new gang robs the Chicago and Alton Railroad
September 3, 1880 - near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - Stagecoach robbery
October 5, 1880 - Mercer, Kentucky - Robbery of a store, belonging to John Dovey
February 1(?), 1881 - Nashville, Tennessee - B.J.Woodson (Frank James) rents a house in Nashville. He receives a visit by John Davis Howard (Jesse James)
March 11, 1881 - Muscle Shoals, Alabama - Robbery of a federal paymaster, taking $5,240
September 7, 1881 - near Winston, Missouri - Robbery of the Rock Island Railroad, taking $900. A passenger and the train conductor are killed by Frank
December 4, 1881 - (While in Nashville, Tennessee)(?) - Robert Ford kills Robert Woodson "Wood" Hite, Jesse James' cousin and member of the gang
December 24, 1881 - St.Joseph, Missouri - Jesse James moves with his family to St.Joseph, Missouri, using the name "Tom Howard"
January 12, 1882 - (While in St.Joseph, Missouri) - Robert Ford meets with Missouri governor Thomas Crittenden, who agrees to pardon Ford for the murder of Wood Hite if he would deliver Jesse James, dead or alive (wikipedia)
April 3, 1882 - St.Joseph, Missouri - Jesse James is shot in the back by Robert Ford and killed, aged 34 =(END)

Bibliography
STILES, T.J. - "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War"

Wyatt Earp | Timeline

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was Tombstone city marshal and deputy U.S. marshal that day and had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier in combat. (Intro from Wikipedia)

March 19, 1848 - Monmouth, Illinois - Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp is born
January(?) 1(?), 1864 - Colton, California - The Earp family moves to Colton, California
January(?) 1(?), 1865 - San Bernardino, California - Driving wagons from San Bernardino to Arizona
January(?) 1(?), 1866 - Salt Lake City, Utah - trip to Salt Lake City, Utah
January(?) 1(?), 1867 - Julesburg, Colorado - trip to Julesburg, Colorado
November 1(?), 1869 - Lamar, Missouri - The Earp family settles in Lamar, Missouri
November 17, 1869 - Lamar, Missouri - 21-year-old Wyatt Earp is appointed Constable for Lamar, in place of his father Nicholas =(START)
January 10, 1870 - Lamar, Missouri - Wyatt Earp marries Urilla Sutherland
October(?) 25(?), 1870 - Lamar, Missouri - Urilla Sutherland dies (of typhus? During child birth?)
March 14, 1871 - Lamar, Missouri - Barton County files a suit against Wyatt Earp, allegating he had never turned over money that he had collected for licenses for the town
March 28, 1871 - Western Arkansas - Wyatt Earp allegedly steals two horses
March 31, 1871 - Lamar, Missouri - Lawsuit filed against Wyatt Earp for allegedly falsifying court documents
April 6, 1871 - Western Arkansas - Wyatt Earp is taken into custody on a charge of horse theft.
May 1(?), 1871 - Western Arkansas - Wyatt Earp escapes
February 24, 1872 - Peoria, Illinois -  Wyatt and his brother Morgan are arrested for "keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame". They are fined on february 26th
May 9, 1872 - Peoria, Illinois - Wyatt and Morgan Earp are arrested again, this time at the McClellan brothel
August 1(?), 1872 - Henry, Illinois - Wyatt is arrested and fined in Henry, Illinois
September 10, 1872 - Peoria, Illinois - Wyatt is arrested in a raid on the "Beardtown" gunboat, a floating brothel on Illinois River
October 29, 1874 - Wichita, Kansas - Wyatt Earp is mentioned by the "Wichita City Eagle" as acting as a private officer for M.R.Moser to collect some money owed Moser
April 21, 1875 - Wichita, Kansas - Wyatt Earp is appointed to Wichita Police Force
April 18, 1876 - Wichita, Kansas - Wyatt Earp is dismissed from the Wichita Police Force
May 24, 1876 - Dodge City, Kansas - Wyatt Earp is put on the police force at Dodge City
January 22, 1878 - Ft.Clark, Texas - Wyatt Earp travels to Ft.Clark, Texas, out of the Dodge City Police
May 11, 1878 - Dodge City, Kansas - Rehired by the Dodge City Police. Appointed assistant marshal
July(?) 1(?), 1878 - Dodge City, Kansas - Involved in a shooting. A cowboy named George Hoy is shot and killed by three men, including Wyatt Earp
September 9, 1879 - Dodge City, Kansas - Wyatt Earp departs to Las Vegas, New Mexico
September 30, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Wyatt Earp arrives in Las Vegas, New Mexico
November 27, 1879 - Tucson, Arizona - The Earps stop at Tucson, where Virgil is commissioned as a US deputy marshal
December 1, 1879 - Tombstone, Arizona - James, Virgil and Wyatt Earp arrive in Tombstone with their wives. On the same day, Josephine Marcus also arrives in Tombstone with Pauline Markham's theater Company
July 25, 1880 - Babacomi Creek, NW of Tombstone - Captain Joseph H. Hurst, of Company A, 12th Infantry, and Commanding Officer of Fort Bennett, asks Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp to help him track Cowboys who had stolen six U.S. Army mules from Camp Rucker. This was a federal matter because the animals were U.S. property. Hurst brings four soldiers, and Virgil invites Wyatt and Morgan Earp, as well as Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams. The posse finds the mules on the McLaury's Ranch on Babacomari Creek, northwest of Tombstone, as well as the branding iron used to change the "US" brand to "D8
July 27, 1880 - (While in Tombstone, Arizona) - Wyatt Earp is appointed Pima County Deputy Sheriff
July 28, 1880 - Tombstone, Arizona - Tombstone Town Marshal Fred White attempts to disarm some late-night revelers who were shooting their pistols in the air. When he attempts to disarm Curly Bill Brocius, the gun discharges, striking White in the abdomen. Wyatt sees the shooting and pistol-whips Brocius, knocking him unconscious, and arrests him
July 29, 1880 - Tucson, Arizona - Wyatt Earp takes Curly Bill Brocius in a wagon to stand trial in Tucson
September 30, 1880 - Tombstone, Arizona - His brother Virgil is appointed as Tombstone's acting town marshal
January 1, 1881 - (While in Tombstone, Arizona) - The eastern portion of Pima County countaining Tombstone is split off into the new Cochise County, which would need its own sheriff, based in the county's largest city, Tombstone
April 19, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - To reduce crime in Tombstone, the city council passes ordinance 9, requiring anyone carrying a bowie knife, dirk, pistol or rifle to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town
July 27, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Morgan Earp takes over his brother's job as shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo
October 26, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp kill Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury in a 30-second gunfight
October 30, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton's brother, files charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday
October 31, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - After Ike Clanton files murder charges, Justice Spicer convenes the preliminary hearing in the Mining Exchange Building to determine if there was enough evidence to go to trial. Spicer takes written and oral testimony from a number of witnesses over more than a month
November 4, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are arrested during the fifth day of the hearing
November 12, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Wyatt Earp replaces his brother Virgil as Deputy US Marshal, after he is wounded in an assassination attempt
December 28, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Virgil Earp is ambushed and wounded by three assailants
December 29, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Telegram to Crawley Dake, U.S. Marshal for the Arizona Territory: "Virgil Earp was shot by concealed assassins last night his wounds are fatal telegraph me appointment with power to appoint deputies local authorities are doing nothing the lives of other citizens are threatened Wyatt Earp"
January 20, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - Crawley Dake deposits $2,985 into an account in Wyatt Earp's name at Hudson & Company in Tombstone, and authorizes him to employ a posse to track down the "Cowboys"
January 23, 1882 - Charleston, Arizona - Wyatt Earp rides with his deputized posse, consisting of his brothers Morgan and Warren, Doc Holliday, "Texas Jack" Vermillion and four others, to Charleston, where Ike Clanton, his brother Phin, and Pony Diehl were known to stay. Ringo, still in jail, learns that the Earps have warrants and are headed for Charleston. He arranges for bail and Sheriff Behan releases him before the bail payment arrives. James Earp immediately files an affidavit saying Ringo was "an escaped prisoner" and charges that Ringo intended to interfere with Wyatt's execution of the warrants. Ringo immediately rides to Charleston to warn his Cowboy friends.
On the way to Charleston, Earp's posse is joined by 30 more riders from Tombstone. They find Ben Maynard, a known Cowboy associate, outside Charleston and arrest him. With Maynard in front, the posse take over the small town and go door-to-door looking for the Clantons and Diehl. Ringo is rearrested in Charleston, but not before he warns the Clantons and Diehl, who leave town.
January 25, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - Wyatt Earp obtains warrants from Judge Stilwell for the arrest of Ike and Phin Clanton, and another Cowboy named Pony Diehl, for the attempted murder of Virgil Earp. Wyatt and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday, assemble a posse which turn Charleston inside out looking for the Cowboys without success
February 2, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - Virgil and Wyatt resign from their positions as Deputy U.S. Marshals in a letter published in "The Daily Epitaph", though Dake refuses Wyatt's resignation
February 9, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - Ike Clanton files murder charges yet again against the Earps, once again in Contention City. Behan escorts Wyatt and Morgan there, guarded by a phalanx of 12 heavily armed friends en route. Judge Smith refused to indict the Earps unless the Clantons could supply new evidence
February 13, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - Wyatt mortgages his home to lawyer James G. Howard for $365.00 (about $9,476 today), but is never able to repay the loan and in 1884 Howard forecloses on the house
February 17, 1882 - Tombstone, Arizona - The Earp posse leaves Tombstone heavily armed and with a warrant for the arrest of "Pony" Diehl, who was a suspect in a January 1882 stage robbery. Unsuccessful, they return to town a few days later, hearing rumors that the Cowboys were plotting further revenge
March 10, 1882 - Mescal Springs, Arizona - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and others encounter Curly Bill Brocius and several other outlaws near Mescal Springs, Arizona. A gunfight erupts with Earp killing Brocius and mortally wounding Johnny Barnes before the other outlaws flee. Dave Rudabaugh is reported to be among the outlaws. Afterwards, he apparently flees south into Mexico
March 18, 1882 - (While in Tucson, Arizona) - Morgan Earp is killed in Tombstone while playing billiards
March 20, 1882 - Tucson, Arizona - Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, James Earp, Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Sherman McMaster guard Virgil and Allie on the way to Tucson. James was to accompany Virgil, Allie, and Morgan's body to the family home in Colton, California. Morgan's wife and parents wait to bury him. Wyatt receives information that Frank Stilwell, Ike Clanton, Hank Swilling, and another cowboy were waiting for them in Tucson. Upon their arrival in Tucson, the Earp party spots Stilwell and other Cowboys. James, Virgil, and Allie board the train to Tucson armed with pistols, rifles and shotguns.

As the train pulls away from the Tucson station, six or seven shots are heard. When Wyatt and his men approach, Frank Stilwell and Ike Clanton run. Stilwell stumbles, allowing Wyatt to catch him.
March 22, 1882 - Off the Chiricahua Road, South Pass, Dragoon Mountains - A part of the Earp posse including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster and "Turkey Creek" Johnson ride about 10 miles (16 km) east to Pete Spence's ranch and woodcutting camp off the Chiricahua Road, below the South Pass of the Dragoon Mountains.

The Earp posse arrives and asks about the location of Pete Spence and Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz. They are told that Spence is in jail in Tombstone and that Cruz is cutting wood nearby. They follow the direction given to them and soon ten or twelve shots are heard. The next morning, Cruz's body is found full of bullet holes.
March 24, 1882 - "Iron Springs", Cochise County, Whetstone Mountains, SE Arizona - The Earp posse, including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMasters, and Texas Jack, rides west towards a prearranged meeting place at a springs, where they expected to meet Smith, who was to bring $1000 from Tombstone, about 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
With Wyatt and Doc Holliday in the lead, the six lawmen surmount a small rise overlooking the springs and are surprised to find nine Cowboys already there: Curly Bill, Pony Diehl, Johnny Barnes, Frank Patterson, Milt Hicks, Bill Hicks, Bill Johnson, Ed Lyle, and Johnny Lyle. They were camped about the springs, cooking a meal, less than 30 feet (9.1 m) down an slight embankment. 
Recognizing Earp, Curly Bill fires his shotgun without warning at Wyatt but misses. Earp dismounts, shotgun in hand. The other Cowboys fire their guns. "Texas Jack" Vermillion’s horse is shot and falls on him, pinning his leg. Lacking cover, Doc, Johnson, and McMaster retreat.

Wyatt returns Curly Bill's gunfire with his own shotgun and shoots Curly Bill in the chest, almost cutting him in half. "Texas Jack" Vermillion tries to retrieve his rifle wedged in the scabbard under his fallen horse. The Cowboys fire a number of shots at the Earp party but the only casualty is Vermillion's horse, which is killed. Doc Holliday helps Vermillion gain cover. After killing Brocius, Earp fires his pistol and shoots Johnny Barnes in the chest and Milt Hicks in the arm.
March 25, 1882 - (While in "Iron Springs") - The Tucson Grand Jury indicts Pete Spence, Frank Stilwell, Florentino Cruz, Frederick Bode, and "John Doe" (Fries) for Morgan Earp's murder
March 27, 1882 - Sierra Bonita Ranch, Cochise County - Arizona - After the Earp Vendetta Ride, Henry C. Hooker hosts the Earps and their companions on their way to the Arizona Territory
March 28, 1882 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - A local newspaper reports that Earp's posse passed through Albuquerque on 28th
April 2, 1882 - 32km N of Sierra Bonita Ranch - Wyatt Earp's posse is spotted 32km North of Hooker's ranch
April 15, 1882 - Silver City, New Mexico - Earp's posse arrives in Silver City
April 28(?), 1882 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have a serious disagreement (over Earp's jewish woman) and part ways
April 29, 1882 - Gunnison, Colorado - Wyatt Earp and his brother Warren, McMaster, Johnson, and Vermillion took the train to Trinidad and then Gunnison, Colorado, where they set up camp on the outskirts of town
May 16, 1882 - Gunnison, Colorado - Doc Holliday is arrested on the Arizona warrant for killing Frank Stillwell. Wyatt Earp intervenes on Holliday's behalf to release him
July 13, 1882 - near Morse Canyon, Arizona - Johnny Ringo, the last leader of "the cowboys" is hunted down and killed
July 25(?), 1882 - San Francisco - Wyatt Earp and Josephine Marcus travel to San Francisco
April(?) 1(?), 1883 - Silverton, Colorado - Wyatt Earp and Josephine leave San Francisco and travel to Silverton, Colorado, where gold mining was flourishing

"Dodge City Peace Commission", June 10, 1883
Wyatt Earp is seated, second from the left

May 31, 1883 - Dodge City, Kansas - Wyatt Earp arrives in Dodge City, along with several gunfighters
June 3, 1883 - Kinsley, Kansas | Dodge City, Kansas - Wyatt Earp meets Luke Short and William F. Petillon. Takes the train back to Dodge City
June 10, 1883 - Dodge City, Kansas - Wyatt Earp poses for the famous "Dodge City Peace Commission" photo, then departs on a train to Colorado
December 1(?), 1883 - Galveston, Texas - Visit to Galveston, Texas, with Josephine
January 30, 1884 - Eagle City, Shoshone County, Idaho - Wyatt Earp and Josephine arrive in Eagle City, another town growingg from the discovery of gold
March 1(?), 1884 - Salt Lake City, Utah - In Salt Lake City by March
December 1(?), 1884 - Raton, New Mexico - Wyatt Earp is identified in Raton, New Mexico
March 26, 1885 - Eagle City, Shoshone County, Idaho - As sheriff, Wyatt Earp helps ending a dispute between a miner and one of Earp's partners, who fired several shots at each other
January(?) 1(?), 1886 - El Paso, Texas - Wyatt Earp and Josephine arrive in El Paso
April(?) 1(?), 1886 - Denver, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp meet in Denver's Windsor Hotel
May 5, 1886 - Aspen, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Aspen, Colorado
May 20(?), 1887 - Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Glenwood Springs, via Aspen
May 25(?), 1887 - Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Wyatt Earp and wife depart to San Diego. It would be the last time he would see Doc Holliday
January(?) 1(?), 1888 - San Diego - Wyatt Earp is interviewed by California historian Hubert Howe Bancroft. Earp claims to have killed "over a dozen stage robbers, murderers, and cattle thieves" in his time as a lawman
May 6, 1888 - San Diego | Tijuana, Mexico | San Diego - Wyatt Earp goes to Tijuana to referee "The Hundred-Round Fight" boxing match. Returns later that day to San Diego
July 3, 1888 - (While in San Diego) - Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock commits suicide by opium poisoning
September(?) 30(?), 1889 - Escondido, California - Wyatt Earp is one of the judges at the county fair horse races held in Escondido, California
January(?) 1(?), 1891 - San Francisco - Wyatt Earp moves back to San Francisco
December 2, 1896 - San Francisco - Referees the Bob Fitzsimmons vs. Tom Sharkey Heavyweight Boxing match
December 20, 1896 - San Francisco - Wyatt Earp and Josephine depart to Yuma
August 5, 1897 - Yuma, Arizona - Wyatt Earp and Josephine depart to San Francisco
September 21, 1897 - San Francisco - Wyatt Earp and Josephine board the steamship "Rosalie" for Nome, Alaska
September 30(?), 1897 - Dawson, Yukon - Arrival in Dawson, where Wyatt planned to open a faro game
November(?) 1(?), 1897 - Wrangell, Alaska - Wyatt Earp is offered a job in Wrangell
November 16, 1899 - Alaska - Wyatt Earp and Josephine depart to Seattle aboard the iron steamer "Cleveland"
November 25, 1897 - Seattle - After a difficult trip through a storm on the Bering Sea, Wyatt Earp and Josephine arrive in Seattle, with a plan to open a saloon and gambling room
March 23, 1900 - Seattle - The Washington State attorney general files charges agains Earp and other gamblers. The Union Club Saloon's furnishings are confiscated and burn
April 1(?), 1900 - San Francisco - Brief return to San Francisco
June 14, 1900 - Seattle - Wyatt Earp and Josephine board the steamer "SS Aliance" for Nome, Alaska
June 27, 1900 - Juneau, Alaska - Wyatt Earp arrives in Alaska. His Smith and Wesson No.3 revolver is confiscated by US marshals
June 29, 1900 - Juneau, Alaska - Wyatt Earp departs to Nome aboard the "SS Senator"
July 6, 1900 - (While in Nome, Alaska) - Wyatt's brother Warren is shot and killed in a saloon in Willcox, Arizona

Wyatt Earp's saloon in Nome, Alaska, 1901

September 12, 1900 - Nome, Alaska - The "Nome Daily News" reports about Wyatt and Josephine's brother being taken into custody after trying to stop a drunken brawl in front of the Dexter Saloon
December(?) 1(?), 1901 - Nome, Alaska - Wyatt Earp and Josephine depart to Los Angeles aboard the "SS Roanoke"
December 13, 1901 - Los Angeles - Wyatt Earp and Josephine arrive in Los Angeles
February 1(?), 1902 - Tonopah, Nevada - Wyatt Earp and Josephine arrive in Tonopah, another booming town after gold and silver had been discovered. Earp opens the Northern Saloon and serves as Deputy US Marshal
January(?) 1(?), 1905 - Goldfield, Nevada - Wyatt Earp and Josephine move to Goldfield, Nevada, where his brother Virgil and his wife were living
February 1(?), 1905 - Goldfield, Nevada - Short visit to his brother Virgil in Goldfield, Nevada
October 19, 1905 - Goldfield, Nevada - During a pnemonia epidemic, Virgil Earp dies of the disease, aged 61
January(?) 1(?), 1906 - near Vidal, California - Wyatt Earp discovers several gold and copper deposits near the Sonoran Desert town of Vidal, in California
January(?) 1(?), 1910 - Los Angeles - 62-year-old Wyatt Earp is hired by the Los Angeles Police Department to carry out various tasks "outside the law"
October 1(?), 1910 - Los Angeles - He is asked to head up a posse to protect surveyors of the American Trona Company who were attempting to wrest control of mining claims for vast deposits of potash on the edge of Searles Lake.
July 23, 1911 - Los Angeles - Wyatt Earp is arrested and charged with attempting to fleece a realty broker, in a fake faro game. He is released on $500 bail
January(?) 1(?), 1915 - Los Angeles - Wyatt Earp visits the set of director Allan Dwan's movie, "The Half-Breed", starring Douglas Fairbanks
January(?) 1(?), 1916 - Edendale, California - Visit to the studio of Mutual Film Conglomerate, where former cowboy Raoul Walsh was shooting a movie
January 25, 1926 - (While in Los Angeles) - Wyatt's brother James dies of cerebral apoplexy in San Bernardino, California
January 13, 1929 - Los Angeles - Wyatt Earp dies of chronic cystitis, aged 80 =(END)

Bibliography

ROBERTS, Gary L. - "Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend"

TEFERTILLER, Casey - "Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend"