Kamis, 05 Oktober 2017

The Death of Gobo Fango

Although accounts differ on his shooting by a Prussian cattleman, this black Mormon sheepherder from South Africa has become a Latter-day hero. One day in early February 1886, Frank Carl Bedke, a 41-year-old Prussian- born cattleman, mortally wounded 30-yearold black Mormon sheepherder Gobo Fango while the latter was tending his woollies in southern Idaho Territory. …

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