Walgamott Slays Liquored-Up Gunman at Rock Creek Store [otd 09/17]

On September 17, 1877, traveling bank examiner Nathaniel Langford recorded an incident that highlighted the rather casual violence of those frontier days. Oddly enough, the surviving participant in the action chose not to connect himself with the event in the reminiscences he published later in life.
N. P. Langford, ca 1870.
Minnesota Historical Society.
Charles Walgamott came west from Iowa in August 1875, when he was seventeen years old. He joined his sister and brother-in-law, Charles Trotter, ...