Powder River invasion : $b War on the rustlers in 1892Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn)
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Powder River invasion : $b War on the rustlers in 1892
Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn)
Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- History -- 19th century; Johnson County War, 1892; Wyoming -- History
up a constant fire and the big man that was shot near the house kept
crawling toward the door. By the time the big man got near the door of
the house the small man had shot 10 or 20 shots. The small man then put
down his gun and pulled the big man in the house. The mob kept shooting
at the house for the balance of the day, and there was a good many
shots fired from the house. The mob claimed that the first man shot was
Nate Champion. The mob kept the house surrounded and sent to a ranch to
get a wagon load of hay to run against the K. C. house to burn it down,
but the men came back that had been sent after the wagon and reported
that the wagon was away from home. About 3 o’clock a man and a boy came
along the road. The man was on horseback and the boy was driving the
team. The mob told them to throw up their hands and immediately began
firing at them. They whipped up their horses, and after going a mile or
so they took a horse out of the harness, the boy mounted the horse, and
they made their escape, closely followed by some of the mob, who fired
a good many shots at them. The mob captured the wagon and horse left
behind by the boy and man. They brought the wagon down to the stable
and loaded it with brush, hay, wood and pitch pine. Major Walcott, A.
B. Clark, John Tisdale, Tom Smith and James Dudley then run the wagon
against the K. C. house and set fire to the hay and shavings on the
wagon. The house soon caught fire. There had not been a shot fired from
the house for over an hour before the wagon was run against the house.
The mob thought that both men in the house might be dead.
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