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• Physical Description: xiii, 320 pages map 23 cm
• Edition: [1st ed.].
• Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill [1966]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311).

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Prologue: "Cattle thieves, beware!" -- The setting: The Powder River country -- Cheer up, boys, 1879-1887: The beef bonanza ; The castle built on sand ; Seeds of trouble -- I ; Seeds of trouble -- II ; Hard times and hard feelings ; The winter of death -- A maverick is a motherless calf, 1884-1890: Long ropes and running irons ; The case of William Maverick ; Who is a cattle thief? -- I ; Who is a cattle thief? -- II ; "You can't get a conviction" ; Bill Maverick again ; Exit Bill Maverick -- No promised land, 1875-1890: The cattlemen come -- and so do the settlers ; New the twain shall meet ; If you call a man a thief ; The Hat Outfit ; The crime on the Sweetwater -- 1891, the story of a year: "Caught on the market" ; Joe DeBarthe's Buffalo [Wyoming] ; The weather breeder ; Blood on a tarpaulin ; The reader is the jury -- I ; The reader is the jury -- II ; Banquo's ghost and other omens -- "An insurrection in Wyoming," 1892: A who's who of the invasion ; The willful men ; The secret special ; The death of Nate Champion ; A surprise for the regulators ; "I will surrender to you -- " ; How Buffalo lost the railroad ; And marched them down again -- Aftermath: The case of the innocent bystanders ; Mad dog murder ; The plot that failed ; George Dunning, an angry man ; The author of "The Banditti" -- Epilogue -- Notes.

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Johnson County War, 1892.