Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

Spring 2011

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 31:2 (Spring 2011).

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Copyright © 2011 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

This book offers a thorough indictment of Wyoming Plains cattlemen at the end of the nineteenth century. It is worth asking if we really need another thorough indictment of a group so thoroughly indicted that one more thorough indictment seems like taking yet another swing at a worn-out punching bag. Yes, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association in 1892 was controlled by bad men whose arrogance was reflected in a ridiculous scheme doomed to failure. Asa Shinn Mercer told us that in Banditti of the Plains, published only two years after the Johnson County War. And much of his account was based on articles by O. A. "Jack" Flagg, a prominent "rustler" from Johnson County, who published his version only three weeks after the invasion.

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