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Johnson County Books
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Johnson County Books
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The Johnson County War
Originally published: 2004
In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers.
Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
Originally published: 2010
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. ..
Banditti of the Plains
Banditti of the Plains is a book written by Asa Mercer about the Johnson County War in Wyoming, United States
by Edward Gillette (Author), Photos (Illustrator)
1925. GILLETTE, Edward. LOCATING THE IRON TRAIL. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, [1925]. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition- all plates are present. Edward Gillette [1854-1936] was an engineer with the Chicago, Burlington and Chicago Railroad. As engineer he found a much shorter route than the one originally intended for the railroad through Wyoming; thus, saving the railroad a lot of money. He was hoping the railroad would show its appreciation with a nice financial bonus and, indeed, the railroad did reward him but by naming the town of Gillette, west of the Black Hills in northern Wyoming, after him in 1891.
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by Claude Gray (Author)
NEVER A DULL MOMENT: Reflections of a Wyoming Cowboy is a memory book of the 1900s. Claude Gray is a man of his day: unselfconscious, opinionated, and bigoted, yet at the same time, astonishingly accepting of other people's foibles. He turns out to be an authentic storyteller with wit, and many a well-turned phrase. His content ranges from memories about individual people to information about formative events and activities from early 1900 to the midpoint of the century.
Owen Wister who authored
The
Virginian spent time in Johnson County
around 1890. He noticed the cowboy vernacular and started writing down their
vocabulary words in a notebook. Later he used these words to craft his story.
Wister was enamored by the cowboy way of life that he experienced on his trips
to Wyoming. In a note to the reader written in 1902 he penned this beautiful
passage describing Wyoming between 1874 and 1890...
"Had you left New York or San Francisco at ten 0'clock
this morning, by noon the day after to-morrow you could step out at Cheyenne.
There you would stand at the heart of the world that is the subject of my
picture, yet you would look around you in vain for the reality. It is a vanished
world. No journeys, save those which memory can take, will bring you to it now.
The mountains are there, far and shining, and the sunlight, and the infinite
earth, and the air that seems forever the true fountain of youth, - but where is
the buffalo, and the wild antelope, and where the horseman with his pasturing
thousands? So like its old self does the sage-brush seem when revisited, that
you wait for the horseman to appear. But he will never come again. He rides in
his historic yesterday."
