Extremely rare picture of Thomas Moonlight. Moonlight was an Indian fighter, farmer, Civil War hero, pioneer in Kansas baseball, Kansas politician, Wyoming Territorial Governor and Bolivian Diplomat. Moonlight chased Quantrill's raiders, teamed with famed mountain scout Jim Bridger, lead in the formation of the first baseball club in Kansas (1867) , pardoned the Sundance Kid as Wyoming Governor and was appointed Bolivian Diplomat by President Grover Cleveland.
This little bio doesn't do justice to what this guy experienced. It must have been amazing to have seen what he did.
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