Slaughter on the Otter

In mid-November 1900 a herd of sheep crossed a plowed furrow "deadline" that had separated cattle and sheep public ranges for many years. On the early morning of December 28, 1900, a determined group of cattlemen led by a future Wyoming governor and U.S. senator destroyed a band of 2,113 head of sheep that had "invaded" their range. The story was cloaked by a conspiracy of silence for nearly seventy-five years, until almost forty years after the senator's death. Even then the facts and moti...