The Banditti of the Plains: Or The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892

In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today.

Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer’s conclusions about the Johnson County range war, they have never controverted the facts of the cattlemen—homesteader struggle as he grimly reported them. With the intention of "executing" alleged rustlers and terrorizing the homeste...