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Carlisle, Bill Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Rock Springs Massacre Essay 10/12/2011
Horn, Tom Essay 10/12/2011
Johnson County War Essay 10/12/2011
Spring Creek Raid Essay 11/21/2011

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Encyclopedia | Wyoming’s First State Prison
Wyoming’s first state prison was located in Rawlins, Wyo., and housed inmates for 80 years, beginning in 1901. In 1988, a joint powers board turned the abandoned building into a museum and renamed...
Essay | The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin
On April 2, 1909, seven cowmen attacked a sheep camp near Spring Creek in the southern Big Horn Basin. The raiders killed three men, kidnapped two others, killed sheep dogs and dozens of sheep and...
Essay | The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming
In April 1892, a private army of 52 cattle barons, their employees and hired Texas guns invaded Johnson County in northern Wyoming, intending to kill as many as 70 men they suspected of being...
Essay | Tom Horn: Wyoming Enigma
Tom Horn, stock detective and hired killer, was hanged in Cheyenne in 1903 for a crime he probably did not commit. He remains controversial because of lingering questions about his guilt and the...
Essay | The Rock Springs Massacre
On September 2, 1885, long-simmering tensions between white and Chinese coal miners in Rock Springs, Wyo. boiled over into a massacre in which whites murdered 28 Chinese, wounded 15 more, and...
Encyclopedia | Bill Carlisle, Gentleman Bandit
Bill Carlisle robbed passengers on the Union Pacific Railroad three times in 1916 and once more in 1919, after escaping from the state penitentiary in a box of shirts. In 1936 he was paroled and...