OUTLAWS AND LAWMEN
LOCATION:
3 East Flaming
Gorge Way
Green River,
Wyoming
82935
Just blocks from
I-80 Exits 89 &
91
HOURS:
Monday
— Saturday
10 am to 6 pm
Closed Sundays
& major holidays
ADMISSION:
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CONTACT:
(307)
872-6435
(307)
352-6715
(307)
872-3234 fax
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The Banditti of the Plains or The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 |
The war took place in 1892, when Wyoming's cattle kings, faced with the loss of their ranges to homesteaders, decided to eliminate the small farmers and ranchers. Fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen from Texas and Idaho proceeded on their infamous invasion of Johnson county. The tables were turned when the homesteaders rallied behind the sheriff and besieged the cattlemen. |
| A. S. Mercer |
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The Bassett Women | "The
Bassett home gave refuge to a veritable who's who of western outlaws,
among them Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and many lesser rustlers....What makes the book so delectable are the lovingly detailed scandals involving Brown's Park pioneers." True West |
| Grace McClure |
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Butch
Cassidy: A Biography |
Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive search of reminiscences, newspapers, and books, Richard Patterson has written the definitive biography of the outlaw whose legend is rivaled only by that of Billy the Kid. |
| Richard Patterson |
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Coyotes
and Canaries:
Characters Who Made the West Wild...and Wonderful |
In this enlightening volume, Wyoming historian and storyteller Larry Brown gives us the low-down on numerous residents of the "Equality State," from famed saddle maker, Frank Meanea, to the notorious Tom Horn, to Wyoming's first black legislator, William Jefferson Hardin. An absolute must for any interested in Wyoming history. |
| Larry K. Brown |
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Digging
Up Butch & Sundance |
What a book? Hard-traveling historians on a quest. Romance! Altitude sickness! The driest desert in the World! Potentially deadly disputes over centuries-old bones! And finally, the answer to a ninety-year-old mystery. |
| Anne Meadows |
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Dreamers & Schemers | The profiles of thirty-one personalities in this book offer snap shots of men and women whose behavior helped shape Carbon County. Some were good, law abiding citizens; a few were cold, ruthless outlaws. Journey back in time to an earlier century. Meet Jim Baker, Joe Rankin, Big Nose George, Lillian Heath and more. |
| Lori Van Pelt |
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I, Tom Horn | The fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question - did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell, or was he framed?. |
| Will Henry |
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The
Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy & His Wild Bunch |
The Wild Bunch found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail, to the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers' Roost. |
| Charles Kelly |
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Outskirt Episodes | In rousing period style, Civil War veteran and frontiersman William G. Tittsworth tells the tales of the raw land of southwestern Wyoming in the late nineteenth century in his memoirs. The frontier characters, thought by many to be based on actual historical characters act out their dramas on the stage of early Sweetwater County history. |
| William G. Tittsworth |
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Petticoat
Prisoners of old Wyoming |
This completes Brown's trilogy about the wicked days of early Wyoming with stories of twenty-three women who became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel. |
| Larry K. Brown |
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The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park | Brown's Park, on the Green River, lies partly in Utah and Colorado. It is astride the old Outlaw Trail, which ran from old Mexico and Arizona, through Wyoming, Montana, and into Alberta. Many outlaws passed through Brown's Park, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. |
| Diana Allen Kouris |
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Tom
Horn: Blood on the Moon |
Tom Horn, the most notorious of Wyoming's range detectives, operated unchecked until he was arrested for the 1901 murder of the fourteen-year-old son of a sheep-raising settler. The murder and questionable nature of Horn's conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy among historians and Wyomingites in general. |
| Chip Carlson |
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The Wild Bunch at Robber's Roost | In the 1890's the Wild Bunch spread over Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Arizona rustling cattle, stealing horses, robbing banks and trains, and often taking cover at Robbers Roost. |
| Pearl Baker |
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Wild Bunch Women | Feisty Females of the Wild West: Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch Gang. These women not only made the Wild Bunch's feats of derring-do possible, but also forged their own legends in the tumultuous American West. |
| Michael Rutter |
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Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming | In
this never-before-published historic memoir Ed Farlow recalls a life like no other - starting with his arrival as a teenager in Wyoming in the 1870's and continuing until 1931 when he was adopted into the Arapaho Nation. He recounts versions of famous events - the Custer Battle, a buffalo hunt with Indians, the Wilcox train robbery, the Battle of Crowheart Butte. And he recalls famous people - Sacajawea, the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Chief Washakie, Joan Crawford, Cattle Kate and more. |
| Edward J. Farlow |
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The
Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889 |
The
most blatant crime in the history of the West. They lynched Cattle
Kate & Jim Averell. This story is so controversial that for
over 100 years it was a mistake to even ask what happened that hot July
afternoon in 1889 when a gracious young woman and an innocent homesteader were hanged from a pine tree in the Sweetwater Valley. |
| George W. Hufsmith |
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Wyoming's Territorial Sherriffs | Most of the fifty-five men who pinned on stars were simply good citizens who carried out the routine duties of office. Some rose to the occasion when faced with adversity. Others arranged to be out of town. |
| Ann Gorzalka |
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You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution | Badmen thrived in Wyoming Territory, but law and legal processes also existed. The frontier was so "civilized" that those men sentenced to hang were allowed to issue formal invitations to their executions. |
| Larry K. Brown |
