A vast amount of trouble
A vast amount of trouble: a history of the Spring Creek Raid John W. Davis
Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1993.
ISBN: 0870813102
DDC: 345.78702523
LCC: KF224
Edition: (acid-free paper)
Summary:
"A Vast Amount of Trouble is the first comprehensive study of the
most important incident between sheepmen and cattlemen in Wyoming
history. Although sheep raids in Wyoming had occurred for years,
where men were killed and thousands of sheep slaughtered, no cowboy
had ever been convicted of a crime associated with a sheep raid."
"The story begins in late March 1909, when five sheepmen headed east
from Worland, Wyoming, driving 5,000 head of sheep. A few days later
the men and their sheep camped on the banks of Spring Creek, where
they thought they had safely brought the herd across the cattlemen's
deadline, beyond which sheep were forbidden. That evening, however,
the camp was raided by seven cowboys, and three of the sheepmen were
brutally murdered." "State v. Brink, the trial that followed what is
now known as the Spring Creek Raid, was one of the great symbolic
struggles in Wyoming history - the final focus of the decades-long
battle between sheepmen and cattlemen. Before the trial ended, the
governor of Wyoming became deeply involved as did the French
ambassador to the United States. Big Horn County almost went broke,
the militia was called out, and many people went through an
experience that became the defining event of their lives." "The
convictions of Herbert Brink and four of the assailants marked the
only time that cowboys in Wyoming were found guilty of raiding a
sheep camp, but the convictions put an abrupt halt to the killing
that had plagued Wyoming for years."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index.
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