EDUCATORS’ PERSPECTIVE
Over the coming days, more than 400
men from as far away as Sheridan joined
the siege. The Johnson County Range War
would not be decided in Buffalo, but at TA
Ranch headquarters on the banks of Crazy
Woman Creek.
Brian Grinder is a professor at Eastern
Washington University and a member
of Financial History’s editorial board.
Dr. Dan Cooper is the president of Active
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Notes
1. Wyoming attorney Willis Van Devanter
wrote to Senator Francis Warren shortly
after the siege at the TA Ranch ended,
“There is no question but that the expedition
was either poorly managed or committed
many grievous errors; none, however,
so grievous as the error of going at all.”
2. The term “regulators” was applied to
forces in the American West engaged in
vigilante activities.
3. Nick Ray died at about 9:00 in the morning.
His body burned in the fire.
4. Range War chronicler John W. Davis
notes that, “Champion was later referred
to as ‘King of the Rustlers’ by big cattlemen,
but this nickname was an outrageous
lie, a convenient slogan without support.
There is no record in Johnson County of
any charges having been pressed against
Nate Champion. Most significantly, Willis
Van Devanter, the chief attorney and ally
of the big cattlemen in Wyoming, made
an important admission regarding Champion.
In June 1892, when Van Devanter
would have given almost anything to
prove that Nate Champion was a prolific
cattle thief, he had to admit to Senator
Joseph M. Carey that ‘there is absolutely
no proof of any kind against him [Champion],—not
even that he stole a calf.’”
5. The TA was owned by Cheyenne physician
and WSGA member Dr. William Harris.
Sources
Davis, John W. Wyoming Range War: The Infamous
Invasion of Johnson County. Norman,
OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 2010.
Gould, Lewis L. “Willis van Devanter and
the Johnson County War.” Montana: The
Magazine of Western History 17, 18–27. 1967.
O’Neal, Bill. The Johnson County War. Fort
Worth, TX: Eakin Press. 2004.
Smith, Helena H. The War on Powder River.
New York: McGraw-Hill. 1966.
Wister, Owen. Owen Wister Out West: His
Journals and Letters. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. 1958.
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