The story goes that Oscar Chitwood was lynched by a mob of armed, masked men in the early hours of Dec. 26, 1910, at the Garland County Courthouse for his role in mortally wounding Garland County Sheriff Jake Houpt during an Aug. 17 shootout.
The recent loss of homes in Colorado to a wildfire reminded me of a 1913 fire which practically gutted Hot Springs the worst in Arkansas history. The city lost 50 square blocks in a wind-whipped inferno.