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Sep 10, 2024

The Johnson County War in 1892, was a moment in history that defined what kind of state Wyoming was to become.  Would outside big money interests continue to control it or would the smaller homesteaders have a future for themselves.  By authoring "The Banditti of the Plains", Asa Mercer created a bombshell.  He exposed...


Jan 10, 2023

After being acquitted in the trial for the killing of his son  in Part 1, James McDermott faces another arrest for the theft of the U. S mail and is taken to Cheyenne for another trial. After that the authorities hear about him and have him arrested and taken to Montana for the killing of a Mr. Murane, his wife's...


Apr 1, 2022

James MacDermott had already killed one man in Montana for having relations with his wife and now he is approaching his best friends cabin to bring his wife home to him and the children, but he's met with an angry man with a Colt in his hand.


Feb 8, 2021

Seventeen year old Annie Bruce became the first female inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary and the first woman convicted of any form of murder in the state.

She confessed to the murder of her father by poison.  Was she guilty or did she take the fall to protect her mother?  

You be the judge.


Nov 5, 2019

In the 1880's, horseflesh was as valuable as the weapon at your side. It was your mode of transportation and your horsepower for your work.  And losing them to horse thieves was a serious crime on the range.  Learn how Teton Jackson became the most feared of them all.