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The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. [3]
Nov 8, 2014 · 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 rustlers or rustler sympathizers.
Johnson County War: With Tom Berenger, Luke Perry, Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward. The three Hammett brothers are caught in a conflict that escalates rapidly and the old farmers facing against new farmers who have settled in the green grasslands.
In Johnson County, Wyoming, conflicts between homesteaders and cattle ranchers escalated into violence. Cattle ranchers controlled vast areas of land and relied on open grazing. They resented how the homesteaders used the open range. The cattle barons viewed homesteaders as trespassers and wanted them off of the land.
Johnson County War. On April 5, 1892, 52 armed men rode a private, secret train north from Cheyenne. Just outside Casper, Wyo., they switched to horseback and continued north toward Buffalo, Wyo., the Johnson County seat. Their mission was to shoot or hang 70 men named on a list carried by Frank Canton, one of the leaders of this invading force.
Range disputes in Wyoming led to what is known as the Johnson County War, and the murder of innocent homesteaders.
Aug 21, 2018 · On April 9th, 1892 in Johnson County, Wyoming a column of hard-looking men rode up to within a short distance of the small ranch headquarters just south of the Middle Fork of the Powder River just before dawn.
