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The Banditti of the Plains: Or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 Volume 2

The Banditti of the Plains: Or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 Volume 2

Mercer, A. S.

Paperback

Series: Western Frontier Library, Book 2

19th Century United States HistoryCriminology

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0806113154
ISBN13: 9780806113159
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Sep 15 1975
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.73 Width: 4.78 Depth: 7.51
Language: English

In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today.

Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer's conclusions about the Johnson County range war, they have never controverted the facts of the cattlemen-homesteader struggle as he grimly reported them. With the intention of executing alleged rustlers and terrorizing the homesteaders, a band of fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen invaded Johnson Country, Wyoming, in April 1892. After besieging and killing the bravest man in Johnson County, the raiders in turn found themselves besieged by the homesteaders and finally in the protective custody of the Untied States cavalry. Further legal and illegal maneuvering permitted the invaders to go unpunished, but the cattlemen never again attempted to retain their hold over the range with organized mob violence.

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