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Range wars escalate into increasingly brutal violence
In late August 1905, the sheep camp of L. A. Gantz was raided at night by masked attackers. The raiders burned the camp, shot a team of horses and either shot or maimed an estimated 4,000 sheep.
by John Bernhisel
Nearly three months after the Basin jail was stormed, Big Horn County was still struggling to reconcile outrage with restraint. What began as an act many residents initially justified as frontier justice slowly revealed itself as something far more troubling. When known murderers J...
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