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Recruitment and Preparation
- When
- March 1892
- Where
- Cheyenne and Douglas
Cattlemen recruited gunmen from Texas in March 1892 to invade Johnson County, organizing in Cheyenne and cutting telegraph lines to prevent alarm.
In March 1892, agents were sent from Cheyenne and Idaho to Texas to recruit gunmen for the planned extermination of homesteaders. The group organized in Cheyenne, traveled by train to Casper, and proceeded by horseback toward Johnson County. They cut telegraph lines north of Douglas to prevent an alarm, setting the stage for the April invasion.
Sources
- Johnson County War Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-10
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