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"Banditti of the Plains"

"Banditti of the Plains"
Or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
(The Crowning Infamy of the Ages)
by A. S. Mercer and forward by William Kittrell
Paperback book with illustrations
195 pages - $19.76

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 John County range war, they have never controverted the facts of the cattleman-homesteader struggle as he grimly reported them.

War on the Rustlers
The Hanging of Waggoner Near Newcastle
Organizing the Invasion
30 Hired Assassins and 20 Representative Stockmen Leave Cheyenne to Murder, Burn and Destroy
Cowardly Attack on the KC Ranch
The March to the TA Ranch
The Prisoners Ordered to Cheyenne
The Kidnapping of the Trappers Jones and Walker

Martial Law Threatened
Attempts to Muzzle Press
Governor Barber Permits Johnson County Officers to Serve Warrants on the Invaders
The Trial of the Invaders
Wyoming Stock Growers' Association
Some Matters Incidental to and connected with the Invasion
A Word About Wyoming

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"Banditti of the Plains"

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"Banditti of the Plains"

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Willow Creek RanchAt The Hole-In-The-Wall

Willow Creek Ranch
At The Hole-In-The-Wall