Bullfrog Valley Gang The Bullfrog Valley gang was a notorious counterfeiting ring that operated in the wilderness of Pope County during the depression of the 1890’s.The gang’s origin and and methods were mysterious, but the New York Times reported ist demise on June 28, 1897.The remote valley, which follows Big Piney Creek from Long Pool to Booger Hollow, was named for Chief Bullfrog, a Cherokee Who, according to legend, settled there after his tribe’s forced removal from Georgia (the Trail of Tears by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Bullfrog Valley, an unincorporated community not typically recognized on current Arkansas state maps, is located along the Big Piney Creek near the community of Silex. According to Dumas, historically the …show more content…
valley followed the Big Piney, running from Long Pool to Booger Hollow.
Within this secluded valley operated one of the nation’s most notorious counterfeiting rings. The secret service listed George Rozelle as the gang’s ringleader, claiming he moved to Pope County from Nebraska in the late 1800s and soon thereafter shipped in counterfeiting supplies from Chicago. He then retreated to the isolated valley where he set up a mint and began making five and ten dollar banknotes.While much of the activity of the gang remains a mystery, on June 28, 1897 the Bullfrog Valley made the front page of the New York Times When the paper ran an article on the capture of three of the gang’s men. In the end, 15 men were arrested, tried and convicted in federal courts in both Fort Smith and Little Rock. Rozelle, however, was not one of them.Even though federal agents were long aware of the gang’s activity, Dumas explains, the gang was able to avoid capture for some time by moving back and forth between Pope and Johnson Counties. It appears the ringleader, Rozelle, was especially adept at this and often escaped with his press. Eventually, however, he buried his equipment in the valley and fled the region. Secret service later found three of the men who helped Rozelle hide the equipment and discovered the supposed area
where the machine was buried. Dumas suspects that the secret service may have elaborated just a bit when it claimed the agent lived there for three years waiting to uncover the mint: “One of the three men weakened under pressure and was about to turn in the other two when he was slain by a load of buckshot fired through his front window.” Dumas continues, “Feeling safe then, one of the men dug up the equipment one night and the agent arrested him.” The ringleader, however, was never found alive. The agent later discovered Rozelle’s grave in Cleburne County.
So the main gang that was working with Boyd was not making every much money so they thought of a way to make money. They came up with the idea to steal the body of Lincoln they plan was a group would go to the monument were the body was a steal it then go up North from Springfield and burry it in a shallow grave. Then another gang member would stay in a place near the place and have witnesses that he was in town the night of the crime, then go fishing and find the shallow grave then collecting the reward and ask for the release of Boyd.The first time the gang tried to do it was 4th of July the 200th Anniversary of America but someone in the gang got drunk and talked about it in bar and it got around town so they could not do
Went threw the town of Redding. Which is where the Meeker's live. They where going door to door. Taking peoples guns and goods. When they came to the Tavern they where demanding for there gun.
Leonard Peltier is currently serving time in the Leavenworth federal penitentiary for the shooting deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents. According to FBI documents, at around 11:50 A.M. on June 26th, 1975, agents Jack Color and Ron Williams were supposedly searching for Jimmy Eagle, a thief wanted for stealing a pair of cowboy boots. The agents encroached on the Jumping Bull Compound in Oglala, South Dakota of the Pine Ridge reservation, in two separate vehicles that no one could recognize (Incident). In this area, there were several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). After the intrusion of the agents, someone-and it is unsure who-fired a shot and a shoot out began. By the end of the shoot out at Pine Ridge, Williams, Color, and one AIM activist, Joe Stuntz Killsright, were dead (Incident). Peltier was one of the AIM members at the Jumping Bull Compound, and ultimately he was charged and convicted on murder charges. There is a great controversy surrounding the Peltier case. A large contingency of both domestic and international citizens and organizations feel that Peltier has been wrongly convicted, while the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government authorities here feel as justice was served.
Army in 1874, when General George A Custer said that gold had been discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. This was a sacred area to many tribes and had always been off-limits to white settlement since the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty. The government tried to purchase this land, but failed, so the Fort Laramie Treaty was set aside and ordered that all Lakota were to leave their land by January 31, 1867. Sitting Bull refused to leave so he and his tribe stood their ground. They later realized that there were more army men than Lakota, so they joined forces with other
Imagine waking up to beautiful freshwater streams and wildlife foraging through the mountainside. This is what citizens of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee get to wake up to ever day. Pigeon Forge is a small town near the border of South Carolina. It sits along the edge of the Cherokee National Forest and on the west side of Little Pigeon River. It is not only located in a beautiful area, but also a thriving area economically speaking. Overall, Pigeon Forge is a family friendly place where people can not only live in a beautiful city, but also exciting environment.
In order to make more eastern land available for settlement, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. This enabled the President of the United States to have power physically to move eastern Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. Indian Title did not grant the Indians the power to sell their own lands. The result of which was that, the Indians went uncompensated for their lands and the Original Indian Title was forsaken. Although more than 70,000 Indians had been forcibly removed in a ten-year journey westward, a trip that became known as the "Trail of Tears," the Passamaquoddy Indians remained in the northeast. This was possibly due to their remoteness and harsh winters of the North Atlantic coast.
The King Ranch The King Ranch, 825,000 acres right here in the great state of Texas! The King Ranch started as a small cow camp in 1853, no one knew how big it would soon become in later years. Richard King started the small camp with 15,500 acres, the ranch is now 825,000 acres full of some of the finest cattle and horses in the world. Each year, more than 35,000 people go to Kingsville, Texas to visit the ranch.
The Northeast region is the best region because it has a lot of very important, historical landmarks. Also it has amazing products & natural resources that you might love. Best of all we got the most beautiful climates that I personally love and I think you should too.
During the earlier years of the 1800’s many Native Americans were relocated to the west of the Mississippi. This event was known as The Removal of 1838. In the book, “Voices from The Trail of Tears,” by Vicki Rozema, there are many stories and journals by a range of people that were involved in the removal of the Native Americas. The pictures that emerge about the Trail of Tears vary depending on who the document is written by.
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The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the execution of the Treaty of New Echota (1835), an “agreement” signed under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). With the expansion of the American population, the discovery of gold in Georgia, and the need for even more land for American results in the push to move the Natives who were “in the way”. So with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Congress acted to remove Natives on the east coast of the United States to land west of the Mississippi River, something in which was never embraced or approved by them (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). Many state governments, such as Georgia, did not want Native-owned land within their boundaries, while the Natives did not want to move. However, under the Removal Act, the United States Congress gave then-President Andrew Jackson the authority to negotiate removal treaties.
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Pirate ship at Blue Lagoon, Moose HilllockEarlier this month we vacationed at Moose Hillock Campground in Warren, New Hampshire. We discovered Moose Hillock while at the RV Camping Show in Springfield this past winter. The kids fell in love with Moose Hillock immediately after seeing pictures of their pool and pirate ship in their brochure. Here is how Moose Hillock Camping Resort describes their pool.
Anzaldua describes borderlands as a war between races and social classes, but for me it’s different than that because for six years of my life, I went to private (Catholic) school. Private school always seemed better than other schools until I left and had to face the real world. At school, all students had to wear the same uniforms, girls wore plaid skirts and boys wore khakis. From kindergarten until third grade, girls had to wear a sailor like shirt with a cardigan sweater while boys were allowed to wear polos. Girls were not allowed to wear jewelry or makeup or have dyed hair. These things were considered unnatural and distractions for others. In other words, everyone looked the same. I could not express myself at all because it was prohibited. The kids at my school could have been soldier's, silent, standing in line wearing matching uniforms waiting for instructions.
Creating a large format banner design was the first assignment given to us students in Communication Design 1. The objectives for this assignment was to create a portable pop-up banner stand design for a client of our choosing. The banner would either have to be for a product or service provided by the client. Although original imagery was allowed, the concept had to be type dominate. Meaning any form of imagery had to be a secondary element, and not the main focus.