SC - cooking lamb
Daniel Serra
lzu97ds at reading.ac.uk
Sun Dec 28 09:45:48 PST 1997
><< Wyoming's big fight was between the small ranchers and the large
> ranchers (which if I remember correctly is the alleged setting for
> Shane). >>
>
>
>I think this may be the Johnson County War I mentioned before. My memory may
>be faulty but I think that the sheepherding issue also played into this. If
>anyone has a truly burning desire to know about this obscure bit of Wyoming
>history I can find out.
>
>
>Noemi
Yep. This is the Johnson County War, where the Wyoming Cattleman's
Association decided to exterminate the "rustlers" (small non-Association
ranchers). The won the battle, but the popular opinion found the action
odious, so in the long run, they lost the war.
Bear
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