Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most
notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous
writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial
transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks
at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County
residents--those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom
the invaders targeted for murder--and finds that, contrary to the
received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers
but legitimate citizens.
The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of
Wyoming's biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating
livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys
and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming
Stock Growers Association, "invade" north-central Wyoming to clean
out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two
suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the
tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to
capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President
Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley,
and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to
stave off the invaders' annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they
later avoid prosecution.
The cattle barons' powers of persuasion in justifying their
deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century.
"Wyoming Range War" tells a compelling story that redraws the lines
between heroes and villains.
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