Raynors HCA 2017-02
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Two Separate Legal documents, both pertaining to a change of venue for four of the arrested invaders in Johnson County War. The typed documents in July 5, 1892, 2pp., signed in ink by the Judge, “John W. Blake” who ruled in favor of a change of venue for four defendants, Frank M. Canton, Frank Wolcott, Thomas Smith, and Buck Garrett. The second 2 page document is also signed by Judge Blake, July 19, 1892 moving the trial to the County of Laramie. Frank W. Canton (1849-1927) From 1871 to 1878 Horner engaged in a variety of illegal activities, becoming a fugitive from justice. Jailed in 1877 for robbing a Comanche, Texas, bank, he soon escaped and helped drive a cattle herd to Nebraska. Deciding to join the side of law and order, Horner changed his name to Frank M. Canton and accepted a position with the powerful Wyoming Stock Growers' Association (WSGA). In 1882 he was elected sheriff of Johnson County, Wyoming, serving for four years before again accepting employment with the WSGA. He was a major figure in the Johnson County Cattle War of 1892. Frank Wolcott(1840-1910)When the conflict between the small ranchers and the cattle barons erupted in the 1880's, Wolcott sided with the large ranchers. Known as the Johnson County War, Wolcott led a group of 50 henchmen into Johnson County in April, 1892 with the intention of killing some 70 suspected cattle rustlers who had been placed on a "death list." Buck Garrett was a noted lawman and gunfighter in the West. A sometimes policeman, other times gunfighter hired out by the cattle barons to drive off homesteaders in Wyoming, Garrett served as a deputy marshall in the Indian Territory and was later elected to the position of Chief of Police at Ardmore, Indian Territory from 1905 to 1910. The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a series of range conflicts that took place in Johnson, Wyoming between 1889 and 1893. . When word came out of the gunmen's initial incursion in the territory, the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, formed a posse of 200 men to fight them, which led to a grueling stand-off. The war ended when the United States Cavalry, on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison, relieved the two forces
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