Time Line
If you’re a history nerd like I am, you might find this timeline just barely interesting — I created it and used it as a reference through the project. I’ve put a * in front of real historical events, and the rest belong to James Holt
* 1868 — Red Cloud wins War of Sioux
1870 — James Holt Jr. born to James ‘Jack’ Holt
* 1874 — T.B. Miskimon born in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia
* 1876 — Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull, Great Sioux War
* 1879 — Billings County created in Dakotas, first range cattle enter the area, and Jack Holt moves his family from Texas to Dakotas
* 1883 — 24 year-old French nobleman, Marquis de Mores, founds Medora, east of the river on April 1; june 26, Marquis gets into gunfight and is later charged with murder
* 1883, September 8 — 24-year-old New York politician Theodore Roosevelt arrives at Little Missouri on Buffalo hunting trip Within days, Roosevelt invests in a local cattle ranch and becomes a semi-permanent resident
* 1883 – Buffalo Bill forms the Wild West Show, he earns the right to the official Buffalo Bill name in a buffalo shoot out
* 1885 — Metropolitan Hotel, later renamed the Rough Riders, opens in Medora in February. Marquis de Mores is acquitted on September 19 of of Riley Luffesey in 1883
* 1884-1887 — Teddy Roosevelt lives in the Dakotas
1884-1887 — Holt meets Roosevelt during pursuit of horse thieves when Teddy is a deputy sheriff, Holt is 16 years old, about to leave for Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, despite his father’s direct orders not to go
1885 — Holt joins Wild West Show, falls in love with Lakota Sioux, while always faithful, does not marry her because she refuses the marriage proposal
* 1885 — Sitting Bull tours with Buffalo Bill Show for for months, gives Annie Oakley her name
* 1887 — Buffalo Bill Show in London, performs for Queen Victoria during Jubilee
* 1887 — Terrible winter storm destroys most ranches, Roosevelt leaves Medora
* 1892 — Buffalo Bill repeat show in London, in front of Queen Victoria
1898, March — Holt gets letter from father to join Rough Riders
* 1898, November — Spanish American War, and Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders, charge of San Juan Hill
* 1901— train wreck for Wild Bill Show, 110 horses killed, no recorded deaths, but Ojinjintka remains in coma for months and then passes at the ranch in Medona, North Dakota
* 1901 — Teddy Roosevelt becomes President, following assassination of McKinley
1902 — James Holt makes downpayment to buy back some of his boyhood ranch, ailing father Jack moves in with him
* 1903, April 7 — Teddy Roosevelt makes his only visit as President to Medora
* 1903, November — Panama revolts from Columbia; Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives canal zone rights to United States, under the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt
* 1904, U.S. Government purchases Panama Canal Company
* 1906, November — Roosevelt visits Panama
* 1907 — George Washington Goethels arrives in Panama to take over construction
* 1907, March 07 — T.B. Miskimon resigns from Precinct 1 police station in the District of Columbia to go to the Panama Canal
* 1908, October — The World publishes sensational article that alleges that 40 million went to J.P. Morgan
*1909, January — The World Reporters are in Panama
* 1909, Tuesday, January 5 – Colombia recognizes Panama’s independence
1909, Sunday, January 10 — Holt waits in Goethel’s administration office, story begins
* 1909, March 4, last day in office for Teddy Roosevelt
* 1928, December 5 — T.B. Miskimon’s death in District of Columbia, buried three days later in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia