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Tells the complete story of the struggle that pit Wyoming's ranchers against the settlers who arrived in the aftermath of the Homestead Act. JOHNSON COUNTY CATTLE WAR draws on period accounts and expert testimony to unravel fact from fiction in this gripping saga of the Old West. From the pro-settler actions of sheriff "Red" Angus to the role of the Union Pacific railroad, it's a fascinating tale of migration, mistrust, violence and the end of the...

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...

So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details: When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the $15 million that they didn't have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that… If his ranching uncle-by-marriage...

Book of the Year Award, 2005, National Association of Outlaw and Lawmen History

In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers. The range war, riddled with lynchings, ambushes, and an invasion by Texas hired gunmen, culminated in a valiant last stand and siege involving hundreds of

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