< 1904 >
66-year-old Jonah Hex is gunned down in a saloon by the coward George Barrow with a shotgun while cleaning his glasses.
34-year-old Lee Walter Travis feels a calling to return home and begin to use what he's learned in pursuit of justice. He returns to the US & begins a New York newspaper, the Globe, with his family fortune, starting to build his network of informants. 30-year-old Wing Hu comes with him, posing as his valet.
Ted Grant is born.
Jim Corrigan is born.
Janos Prohaska is born in Poland.