Month: August 2023

  • Shot To Death (part 3)

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    -Natrona County Tribune- -Casper Wyoming- -Thursday, February 10, 1898- -Page 1, Continued on Page 8- Recap Last time, on Shot To Death, the jury could not agree on a verdict. They went back and forth many times, but everybody was flaky and indecisive, so they left the decision to the next jury. A new trial… Read more

  • Shot to Death (Part 2)

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    -Natrona County Tribune- -Casper Wyoming- -Thursday, January 27, 1898- -Page 1- Recap It was November 1897, Mr. McRae was in some trouble, with a trial date set for January 17, 1898. He was accused of perpetrating a suspicious murder, shooting and killing Robert Gordon, his very own employee, while another man, Peter Keith, slept just… Read more

  • Shot To Death (part 1)

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    –Natrona County Tribune– -Casper Wyoming- -June 3, 1897- -Page 1- Robert Gordon Shot in the Side by a Rifle Sunday Morning Last Sunday morning at about 7:30 o’clock in Kenneth McRae’s sheep camp, about sixty miles from Casper, Robert Gordon, a young man about 27 years of age, met with his death by the discharge… Read more

  • ALARMING!

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    –The Acorn– -Woodstock, Vermont- -Wednesday, May 1, 1872- -Page 2- ALARMING! From a distinguished scientific gentleman connected with one of our most prominent literary institutions, we have the following very remarkable statement. During the last two storms on the chromosphere of the sun, it was estimated that 1956 trillions of cubic feet of hydrogen gas… Read more