140-136: The Wild West

140: Jesse James and his gang commit the first train robbery in the American West in Adair, Iowa. In 1876 Lawman Wyatt Earp begins work as a peace officer in Dodge City, KS. The same year outlaw Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. In 1881 Tombstone, AZ is sight of the gunfight at the OK Corral. And in 1882 the legendary Jesse James is killed by fellow outlaw Robert Ford in his home in St. Joseph, MO. ft. Author of Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West, Tom Clavin.

139: The first major wagon trail heads west on the Oregon Trail with over a thousand pioneers from Missouri 138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi

138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi

137: President Reagan announces SDI a missile defense program intended to intercept enemy missiles ft. Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow.

136: The Spanish Flu Pandemic hits the US