Lex Anteinternet: Friday, February 15, 1901. Right of way.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, February 15, 1901. Right of way.: The Right-of-Way Act was signed into law by U.S. President William McKinley permitting the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way ...

Friday, February 15, 1901. Right of way.

The Right-of-Way Act was signed into law by U.S. President William McKinley permitting the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way through any federally owned-land, including the Indian reservations and the four national parks then in existence (Yellowstone, Sequoia, Yosemite, and Mount Rainier) if he found it to be "incompatible with the public interest".

Not good.

69 coal miners at the Wellington Colliery Company, near Cumberland, British Columbia, were killed in an explosion.  Over half of them were Japanese or Chinese immigrants.

Bluesman James "Kokomo" Arnold may have been born, assuming he wasn't born on this date in 1896.  He was famous for his intense slid guitar.

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Wednesday, February 13, 1901. McKinley wins (officially).

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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 19, 1901. The Army in Yellowstone.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 19, 1901. Hazing at West Point.: United States Military Academy Superintendent Colonel Albert L. Mills and four cadets presented a statement signed by all of the members of ...

Saturday, January 19, 1901. Hazing at West Point.

It was a Saturday.  Harpers looked back at the day, on its cover, when the Army enforced the law in Yellowstone National Park.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and ...

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and ...: Theodore Roosevelt engaged a mountain lion in hand to hand combat in Colorado. Soon we saw the lion in a treetop, with two of the dogs so hi...

Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and the Mountain Lion.

Theodore Roosevelt engaged a mountain lion in hand to hand combat in Colorado.

Soon we saw the lion in a treetop, with two of the dogs so high up among the branches that he was striking at them. He was more afraid of us than of the dogs, and as soon as he saw us he took a great flying leap and was off, the pack close behind. In a few hundred yards they had him up another tree. Here I could have shot him (Tony climbed almost up to him, and then fell twenty feet out of the tree), but waited for Stewart to get a photo; and he jumped again. This time, after a couple of hundred yards, the dogs caught him, and a great fight followed. They could have killed him by themselves, but he bit or clawed four of them, and for fear he might kill one I ran in and stabbed him behind the shoulder, thrusting the knife you loaned me right into his heart. I have always wished to kill a cougar as I did this one, with dogs and the knife.

Theodore Roosevelt, Letters to His Children.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.:  

Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.

 John M. Browning was granted a patent for what would become the "self loading" Auto 5 shotgun, which would go into production in 1902.

A phenomenally successful shotgun, it blazed the trail for all later semi automatics.  It became so popular that Browning had trouble ceasing to offer it in its catalog even after it desired to do so.  The shotgun was manufactured in Belgium for Browning and also offered in the United States by Remington, as the Model 11.  Remington's production of Browning's design ceased in 1947, but FN's for Browning carried on until moved to the Japanese firm Miroku in 1975.  In 1998 full production finally ceased, with FN carrying on with commemoratives for one final year.

Primarily a hunting weapon, you'll oddly see a lot of inquiries on the net today about whether it saw military use.  It did, but mostly as a training weapons.  As great as it was, it's action was not suitable for combat conditions, although you'll occasionally see some that were used as police riot guns.

It still has a huge following.

Blog Mirror: Browning Auto 5 Shotgun Review: Still One of the Greatest Semiautos of All Time

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Monday, October 8, 1900. Annexation of the Cook Islands.

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Lex Anteinternet: Friday. May 25, 1900. The Lacey Act signed into ...

Lex Anteinternet: Friday. May 25, 1900. The Lacey Act signed into ...: 

Friday. May 25, 1900. The Lacey Act signed into law.

The Lacy Act was signed into law by President McKinley .  It made it a Federal offense to ship "wild animals and birds take in defiance of existing state laws" across state lines."

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Thursday, May 24, 1900. A battleship to China.

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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 29, 1910. Skates.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 29, 1910. Skates.:   

Note the hand muff, or whatever it is:

Saturday, January 29, 1910. Skates.

 

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Wednesday January 26, 1910 and Thursday, January 27, 1910. The Mann Act, Nation's last saloon assault, a famous name.

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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 1, 1910. 5, 576 handshakes.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 1, 1910. 5, 576 handshakes.: 

Saturday, January 1, 1910. 5, 576 handshakes.

A man with grit.

1909   The Natrona County Tribune reported in a story that ran this week:

"Snowed In.

"W. L. Hobbs and Dr. J. W. Padgett left Lander over seven weeks ago on a three weeks' elk hunt, and the first of last week one of their horses returned, and their friends feared that they had perished in the deep snow in the mountains, and relief parties were organized to search for them. On Sunday night Dr. Padgett was brought into Lander by a trapper, and the doctor said that Mr. Hobbs was badly snowed in near Fremont Peak, there being three to five feet of snow all over the mountains. He said that Mr. Hobbs would not leave his horses, that he had plenty to eat and was clearing small patches of ground so his horses could feed, that there was no immediate danger of either the horses or Mr. Hobbs perishing."

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North American Conservation Conference.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North Amer...: 

Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North American Conservation Conference.

President Theodore Roosevelt convened the first North American Conservation Conference at the White House.  

The conference was between delegates of the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Oddly enough, Wallace Stegner was born on this day as well, in Lake Mills, Iowa.

Subsistence hunter/fisherman of the week. Albert Nelson

He was Wyoming's first game warden, hired in.1899.

While contrary to what is sometimes suggested, he occasionally had deputy game wardens in his three-year stint, his statewide, hands on, role was a monumental task.  He received funding at the amount of $1,200 per year, from which he had to pay himself and deputies who received $3.00 per day.

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Subsistence hunter/fisherman of the week. Theodore Roosevelt

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week At Work. Wolfer, 1904

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week At Work. Wolfer, 1904:

Mid Week At Work. Wolfer, 1904