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Nov 8, 2014 · 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.
Photo taken at Fort D.A. Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 1892. 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] The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area ...
Aug 21, 2018 · Nate Champion. 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. The icy snow blowing in from the north was blinding. They dismounted and held a short parley.
By the late 1880’s and 1890’s, the press responded with sensational stories of lawlessness and cattle rustling in Johnson County. Running Iron which could be carried horseback and used to brand maverick calves. The small cattlemen rebelled by conducting their own round-ups, and continuing to maverick.
Nov 15, 2014 · The War on Powder River, published in 1966, is a thorough, lively history of the so-called Johnson County War, when about 50 Wyoming ranchers and hired Texas gunmen invaded Johnson County in northern Wyoming in 1892, to kill rustlers. The Watson-Averell lynching enabled the later invasion, argues author Helena Huntington Smith.
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 ...
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Johnson County War route. The drive north from Casper to Buffalo generally follows the route of the invaders in 1892. The site of the KC Ranch house, burned in April 1892 to roust out Nate Champion, lies just across the Middle Fork of Powder River from the Kaycee downtown area. Following the Middle Fork upstream from Kaycee—southwest on ...
