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Sheepshooters War

By wolfedspiked

  • Just the beginning

    Just the beginning
    "In Brown County, Charles Hanna, who had brought the first sheep there in 1869, went out to his rock corral one morning and found that all 300 had had their throats cut." (Jay Monaghan)

  • The Cattlemen Strike Again

    "Also in San Saba County, night riders in 1880 shot many of the Ramsay brothers' 1,300 sheep and slit the throats of others."

  • Colorado

    "Other Colorado sheepmen found their woollies shot or driven off, their herders beaten, their cabins and corrals burned. In Garfield County in 1894, raiders killed 3,800 sheep by stampeding them over a bluff into Parachute Creek after wounding one of the herders. Later, in the same county, only one crippled sheep survived the slaughter of a flock of about 1,500." (Jay Monaghan)

  • Idaho

    "Similar troubles plagued sheepmen farther north. In Idaho in 1896, two herders encamped in the Shoshone Basin were shot to death and their flocks scattered. In Montana four years later, eleven cowmen killed R. R. Selway's whole band of 3,000 woollies. In Wyoming, raiders killed nearly 12,000 sheep in a single night. In other instances, they drove flocks over precipices or scattered poison on the ranges." (Jay Monaghan)

  • Clubing sheep to death

    "In Wyoming the strife continued. In the summer of 1905, ten masked men rode into a camp on Shell Creek, in the Big Horn Basin, where Louis A. Gantz had 7,000 sheep. They shot or clubbed to death about 4,000 of them, destroyed the wagons and provisions, and tied two dogs to the wagons to be burned to death. Gantz, who lost about $40,000 from this attack, knew better than to prosecute the raiders in a Wyoming court." (Jay Monaghan)

  • Gas

    Gas
    "On an April night in 1909, five sheepmen were sleeping in their camp on the north side of Spring Creek, in the Big Horn Basin. They had about 5,000 sheep. A score of armed and masked raiders galloped into the camp and killed three of the herders. They poured kerosene on the wagons and burned them, killed several dogs and some of the sheep." (Jay Monaghan)

  • There were a lot of way of killing sheep

    There were a lot of way of killing sheep
    "There were dynamitings and other sheep killings in Wyoming in 1907. " (Jay Monaghan)

  • Workes sited

    Monaghan, Jay. "Fueds & Range Wars - Sheepmen vs. Cattlemen." Fueds & Range Wars - Sheepmen vs. Cattlemen. N.p., 1969. Web. 13 Apr. 2016.