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MERCER, Asa Shinn. The Banditti of the Plains or the Cattleman's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892. (The Crowning Infamy of the Ages). . [Cheyenne, Wyoming], 1894.
8o. Advertisement leaf and four blanks at front. Illustrations in text. (Without final blank, last two leaves reinserted). Original black cloth (recased, wear at extremities). Provenance: James A. Crawford, 1894-1937 (signature on flyleaf and ink stamps on title and text leaves).
FIRST EDITION. Mercer, the editor of a Cheyenne, Wyoming cattleman's newspaper, published this detailed but highly partisan account of the Johnson County Cattle War of 1892, in which small cattle ranchers and larger, established ranchmen of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association clashed over grazing rights. Many copies of the book were reportedly destroyed by cattlemen and their descendants who felt they had been unfavorably depicted in the book. Mercer's exposé of the cattle industry nearly cost the author his life. Adams, Six Guns 679; Dobie, p.111; Graff 2750; Howes M522; Streeter Sale 2385.
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FIRST EDITION. Mercer, the editor of a Cheyenne, Wyoming cattleman's newspaper, published this detailed but highly partisan account of the Johnson County Cattle War of 1892, in which small cattle ranchers and larger, established ranchmen of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association clashed over grazing rights. Many copies of the book were reportedly destroyed by cattlemen and their descendants who felt they had been unfavorably depicted in the book. Mercer's exposé of the cattle industry nearly cost the author his life. Adams, Six Guns 679; Dobie, p.111; Graff 2750; Howes M522; Streeter Sale 2385.