Johnson County War, 1892
The vast region of country lying between the Missouri River on the east and the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west, an area covering nearly two-fifths of the surface of the United States of America, was until recent years considered an unproductive waste, suited only to occup...
The vast region of country lying between the Missouri River on the east and the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west, an area covering nearly two-fifths of the surface of the Uni...
2. CHAPTER I.There being a few reckless fellows in various parts of the state who lived by the theft of cattle and horses, it was comparatively an easy matter to create the impression that t...
3. CHAPTER II.THE HANGING OF WAGGONER NEAR NEWCASTLE--ATTACK UPON NATHAN D. CHAMPION AND ROSS GILBERTSON ON POWDER RIVER--BRUTAL AND COWARDLY MURDER OF JOHN A. TISDALE AND ORLEY E. JONES IN J...
4. CHAPTER III.ORGANIZING THE INVASION--THE WYOMING STOCK GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION AS A PROMOTER--CHEYENNE THE RENDEZVOUS OF THE PLOTTERS--ACTING GOVERNOR AMOS W. BARBER PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE...
5. CHAPTER IV.Monday and Tuesday, April 4th and 5th, 1892, will always be remembered as red letter days in the criminal history of Cheyenne, the capital city of Wyoming, the baby state of the...
6. CHAPTER V.COWARDLY ATTACK UPON THE K. C. RANCH--FLIGHT OF JACK FLAGG UNDER FIRE--CAPTURE OF THE TRAPPERS JONES AND WALKER--SHOOTING OF RAY--BURNING OF THE RANCH HOUSE--ATTEMPTED FLIGHT AN...
7. CHAPTER VI.After the killing of Champion the cattlemen joined the supply wagons that had arrived on the creek in sight of the smoking ruins of Nolan’s ranch house, and the cooks served a h...
8. CHAPTER VII.Terrence Smith had seen and heard the firing on the K. C. ranch in the morning, and divining its import, had ridden to Buffalo, notifying the settlers as he went. Sheriff Angus...
9. CHAPTER VIII.When the news of the burning of the K. C. ranch reached Buffalo on Sunday, the 10th of April, and it was learned that the invaders were on their way north with murderous intent,...
10. CHAPTER IX.Not satisfied with over-riding the civil by the military powers of government in calling upon the President to order Colonel Van Horn and his troops to disband the Sheriff’s pos...
11. CHAPTER X.Believing that Benjamin Jones and Wm. W. Walker were the only witnesses of the killing of Champion and Ray and the burning of Nolan’s K. C. ranch house, prudence dictated the re...
12. CHAPTER XI.When the captured cattlemen got fairly warmed up in their quarters at Fort Russell and had an opportunity to read the newspapers of this state and from the great outside world,...
13. CHAPTER XII.A few weeks after the arrival of the invaders at Fort Russell it was determined by them and their friends to regulate, or muzzle the press of the state. It had been claimed that...
14. CHAPTER XIII.J. W. Blake, judge of the Second Judicial district, which comprises Johnson and Albany counties, sent a letter to Acting Governor Barber on the 19th of June, requesting that he...
15. CHAPTER XIV.On August 7th, 1892, the invaders were arraigned before Judge Scott, in the District Court for Laramie county, at the court house at Cheyenne. They all pleaded not guilty, and t...
16. CHAPTER XV.April 4th, 1893, the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association met in annual session at the court house in the city of Cheyenne. John Clay, Jr., of Chicago, President of the Associatio...
17. Chapter XVI.It was claimed in the invaders’ petition to the governor and in his dispatch to the President, and talked in the press as well as on the street that the civil authorities of Joh...
18. CHAPTER XVII.Midway between the rock-ribbed coast of New England and the golden sands of the Pacific, high above and beyond the reach of the malaria laden winds that gather in the low lands...