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The Spring Creek Raid and the trial that changed Wyoming
Defendants in the Spring Creek Raid case, clockwise from top left, Herb Brink, Ed Eaton, George Saban, Tom Dixon and Milton Alexander. -Washakie Museum photo
by John Bernhisel
In the early morning hours of Good Friday, April 2, 1909, violence erupted along Spring Creek, seven miles south of Ten Sleep in the southern Big Horn Basin. Three sheepherders were murdered. Two were burned alive inside their wagon, while a third staggered from the flames, wounded...
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