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Cattle Kate (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerWesternsHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781464203039
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: Oct 14 2014
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A fascinating and disturbing look at a very dark chapter in the annals of the American West.--C.J. BOX, New York Times bestselling author
Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it range land justice when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a filthy whore. But history was wrong. It was all a lie.
Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never been called Cattle Kate until she was dead and they needed an excuse. She was really a 29-year-old immigrant homesteader, lynched with her husband by her rich and powerful cattle-baron neighbors who wanted her land and its precious water rights.
Some people knew the truth from the start. Their voices were drowned out by the all-powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association. And those who dared speak out--including the eyewitnesses to the hangings--either disappeared or mysteriously died. There was no one left to testify against the vigilantes when the case eventually came to trial. Her six killers walked away scot-free. But the legend was stronger than the truth. For over a century, newspapers, magazines, books--movies, too--spread her ugly legacy.
Now, on the 125th anniversary of her murder, the real Ella comes alive in Cattle Kate to tell her heartbreaking story. Jana Bommersbach's debut novel bares a legend central to the western experience.
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