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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] The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were settlers who competed with them for livestock ...
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.
Oct 17, 2017 · During the April 9, 1892, siege of Wyoming’s KC Ranch, Nate Champion put up a mighty one-man stand, even prompting one of his enemies to call him ‘a he-man with plenty of guts’.
- Ron Soodalter
The big cattlemen promptly resolved, in early March 1892, to go north and invade Johnson County. The WSGA recruited twenty-three gunmen from Texas to augment the ranks of the invading stockmen. Only a month later, the invaders left Cheyenne and traveled to Johnson County.
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. The icy snow blowing in from the north was blinding.
In 1892, a group of Texan gunmen arrived in Johnson County. The cattle barons paid for the gunmen. They tasked them to eliminate alleged rustlers and troublemakers among the homesteaders.
In April 1892, the Barons organized and some led a group of about 50 armed men, made up of their employees, Wyoming Stockgrowers Association range detectives, and Texas hired guns. They became infamously known as the “Invaders”.
