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Booze, bullets and prohibition in the Big Horn Basin

Part one: Floorboards stained with blood

by John Bernhisel

They deputized the courthouse janitor

On a hot June evening in 1923, George Sherrin and A. E. Carey of Greybull stopped near a hidden cache of liquor in the bed of Cottonwood Creek north of Cody. The cache reportedly contained about 40 gallons of liquor.

The two men had been watche...

 
 

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