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  5Ibid.

  Chapter One

  1Farmers’ Almanac Wyoming, 1911; Carbon County Journal, August 4, 1911.

  2Rawlins Republican, December 14, 1911.

  3Rawlins Republican, July 20, 1911.

  4Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 37; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 197; “Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report, http://wyomuseum.state.wy.us/pdf/FelixAlston.pdf; Butler, Gendered Justice, 229–31.

  5Beard, Wyoming from Territorial Days, 4–15; Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 11.

  6Klein, Union Pacific, 10–14; Larson, History of Wyoming, 36–41.

  7Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 2–6; Klein, Union Pacific, 116–17.

  8Klein, Union Pacific, 103–4.

  9Ibid., 116–17.

  10Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 108–11; Larson, History of Wyoming, 240–43.

  11Cheyenne State Leader, May 8, 1868; Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 10–11.

  12Cheyenne Daily Leader, October 18, 1901; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, X–XIV.

  13Larson, History of Wyoming, 230–31; Time, May 22, 1950; Wilson, Outlaw Tales, 131–33; “100 Years in the Wild West” photo supplement.

  14Laramie Sentinel, March 26, 1881; Wilson, Outlaw Tales, 131–33; Larson, History of Wyoming, 230–31.

  15Cheyenne Daily Leader, October 18, 1901; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, X–XIV.

  16“100 Years in the Wild West” photo supplement; Larson, History of Wyoming, 145–48.

  17Colorado Transcript, December 16, 1896.

  18Carbon County Journal, December 14, 1901; “Board of Charities and Reform,” http://doc.state.wy.us/about/charityreform.html.

  19Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 1897; Laramie Republican Illustrated Section, 1915, 17.

  20Lichtenstein, Twice the Word, 3; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 47–52.

  21Lichtenstein, Twice the Word, 3; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 47–52; “Fast Facts about Broom Making at the Wyoming State Prison, Laramie,” www.wyomingterritorialprison.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/04/broomfactoryinterpguide.docx.

  22Daily Tribune, August 19, 1897; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 47–52; Butler, Gendered Justice, 229–31.

  23“Fast Facts about Broom Making.”

  24Laramie Republican, June 23, 1911; New York Times, February 26, 1896; Pacific Reporter, May 19, 1898.

  25Pacific Reporter, May 19, 1898; Daily Tribune, August 19, 1897; Carey, Governor Executive Department Report; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 47–52.

  26“Fast Facts about Broom Making.”

  27Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 53.

  28Larson, History of Wyoming, 321.

  29Murray, History of the Wyoming State Penitentiary, 65–69.

  30Laramie Daily Boomerang, February 2, 2006.

  31Laramie Republican, April 25, 1912.

  32Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 47–52.

  33Ibid., 17–20, 39–46.

  34Ibid., 47–52.

  35Carey, Joseph M. Governor Executive Department Report, Board of Charities & Reform Records, November 3, 1911.

  36Bill Barlow’s Budget, April 19, 1911; Larson, History of Wyoming, 333.

  37Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 69.

  38Larson, History of Wyoming, 321.

  39Rawlins Republican, October 14, 1912.

  40Laramie Republican, May 25, 1912.

  41Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 85–88.

  42Alston, “Bronco Nell,” 173–75.

  43Ibid.

  44Butler, Gendered Justice, 192–97; “Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 32–36.

  45Rawlins Republican, July 6, 1911; Larson, History of Wyoming, 207–208.

  46Carbon County Journal, June 2, 1911; Carbon County Journal, August 25, 1911; Rawlins Republican, May 19, 1911.

  47Carbon County Journal, July 24, 1911.

  48Rawlins Republican, August 10, 1911; Rawlins Republican, September 14, 1911.

  49Carbon County Journal, July 24, 1911.

  Chapter Two

  1Cheyenne Daily Leader, April 8, 1909; Alston, ed., “The Spring Creek Raid, by Felix Alston,” https://sites.google.com/a/wyo.gov/the–spring–creek–raid–by–felix–alston; Davis, “The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin,” http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/spring–creek–raid.

  2Laramie Daily Boomerang, May 8, 1909; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid”; Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin.”

  3Grand Encampment Herald, May 21, 1909; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid.”

  4Grand Encampment Herald, May 21, 1909; Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid.”

  5Casper Press, October 29, 1909; Carbon County Journal, May 1, 1909; Basin Republican, April 23, 1909.

  6Casper Press, October 29, 1909; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid”; Grand Encampment Herald, May 21, 1909.

  7Cheyenne Daily Leader, April 8, 1909; Powell Tribune, May 10, 1909; Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid.”

  8Casper Press, October 29, 1909; Grand Encampment Herald, May 21, 1909; Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid”; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid.”

  9Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid.”

  10Ibid.

  11Casper Press, October 29, 1909; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid”; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 221.

  12Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1907; National Association meeting minutes, February 19, 1907.

  13Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1907.

  14Casper Press, October 29, 1909; Alston, ed., “Spring Creek Raid.”

  15Anaconda Standard, October 19, 1909.

  16Cheyenne State Leader, November 16, 1909; Laramie Republican, November 27, 1909; Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid.”

  17Bill Barlow’s Budget, April 19, 1911; Bowen, Progressive Men, 737.

  18“Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 37.

  19Wyoming State Journal, April 21, 1911; Larson, History of Wyoming, 321; Farrington and Bakken, Law in the West, Civil Case 2514.

  20Laramie Daily Boomerang, June 19, 1903; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 48–50.

  21“Fast Facts about Broom Making at the Wyoming State Prison, Laramie,” www.wyomingterritorialprison.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/04/broomfactoryinterpguide.docx; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 53.

  22Laramie Daily Boomerang, August 5, 1911; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 37.

  23Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins.

  24Davis, “Last Murderous Sheep Raid.”

  25Cheyenne State Leader, July 11, 1911; Sheridan Post, August 8, 1911; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 147–49; Wyoming Tribune, August 11, 1911.

  26Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  Chapter Three

  1 Butler, Gendered Justice, 70; Carbon County Journal, August 18, 1911; Franscell, Darkest Night, 152.

  2Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins.

  3Carbon County Journal, August 18, 1911; Franscell, Darkest Night, 152.

  4Allentown Morning Call, September 14, 1931; Ancestry.com records for Joseph Seng; United States Federal Census, 1910.

  5Allentown Morning Call, September 14, 1931.

  6Allentown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1898; Wyoming Press, April 8, 1911.

  7Allentown Morning Call, September 14, 1931; Ancestry.com records for Joseph Seng; United States Federal Census, 1910.

  8Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.


  9Ibid.

  10Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  11Masson journal notes.

  12Masson journal notes; Ancestry.com records for Moroni Ewer; United State Federal Census, 1910.

  13Klein, Union Pacific, 269–70; “Evanston Rail Yard,” www.pwrr.org/prototype/Evanston/index.html.

  14The Wyoming Press, August 6, 1910.

  15Casper Press, June 7, 1910; Hallberg, ed., Annals of Wyoming, 78; Big Piney Examiner, August 1, 1918; Letter to WVD from Senator Francis Warren, April 20, 1906.

  16“CY Ranch,” www.casperjournal.com/community/image_d070661d–673f–5cc3–9a95–2ce6957dfbb4.html.

  17Carbon County Journal, May 20, 1908.

  18Journal, June 13, 1908.

  19Klein, Union Pacific, 270; Masson journal notes.

  20E–mail exchange between Christopher Blue and Chris Enss, April 16, 2012.

  21Ibid.

  22Daily Standard, March 20, 1910.

  23Standard Examiner, February 23, 1922; Laramie Republican, August 6, 1910.

  24Daily Standard, August 6, 1910.

  25United States Federal Census, 1910.

  26E–mail exchanges between Olive Phelps and Chris Enss, November 19, 2011, April 12, 2012, March 2013.

  27E–mail exchanges between Olive Phelps and Chris Enss; Rawlins Republican, July 21, 1910.

  28E–mail exchanges between Olive Phelps and Chris Enss.

  29Ibid.

  30Wyoming Press, April 8, 1911.

  31Ibid., April 15, 1911.

  Chapter Four

  1Cheyenne State Leader, September 14, 1910.

  2Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.

  3Masson journal notes.

  4Ibid.

  5Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins.

  6Butler, Gendered Justice, 70; Carbon County Journal, August 18, 1911; Franscell, Darkest Night, 152.

  7Big Horn County Rustler, October 16, 1908.

  8Laramie Republican Illustrated Section, 1915.

  9Laramie Republican, June 23, 1911; Nevada State Journal, April 21, 1911.

  10Carbon County Journal, June 2, 1911.

  11Letter to Otto Gramm from Senator Francis Warren, August 1911.

  12Bill Barlow’s Budget, April 19, 1911.

  13Larson, History of Wyoming, 632–33; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 66.

  14Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 67; Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 175–78.

  15Letter to Otto Gramm from Senator Francis Warren, August 1911.

  16Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 35–39.

  Chapter Five

  1Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  2Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 228–30.

  3Laramie Republican, July 18, 1911.

  4Cheyenne State Leader, April 19, 1911.

  5Carbon County Journal, July 22, 1911; Rawlins Republican, July 20, 1911.

  6Farmers’ Almanac Wyoming, 1911; “Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report.

  7Wyoming Press, May 24, 1910; Laramie Daily Boomerang, September 18, 1909; Cheyenne State Leader, April 20, 1910; Big Horn County Rustler, April 14, 1911; Natrona County Tribune, August 13, 1911.

  8Warren Papers; Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  9Carbon County Journal, July 24, 1911.

  10Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 176–79.

  11Reverend Peter Masson Journal Notes, September 1910–June 1915; Letter to Governor Carey from Mrs. Anthony Seng, July 1911.

  12The Lehigh Register, June 5, 1912.

  13Carbon County Journal, February 9, 1912; Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 176–79.

  14Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 176–79; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 197–98.

  15Rawlins Republican, May 8, 1920; “Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report.

  16Big Horn County Rustler, July 14, 1911; Sheridan Post, August 8, 1911; Cheyenne State Leader, August 12, 1911.

  17Carbon County Journal, July 21, 1911; Rawlins Republican, July 20, 1911; e–mail exchanges between Olive Phelps and Chris Enss, November 19, 2011, April 12, 2012, March 2013; Ancestry.com records for Moroni Ewer.

  18Laramie Republican, March 15, 1911; Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915; Masson journal notes; Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  19Big Pine Examiner, June 27, 1912.

  20Ibid.

  Chapter Six

  1Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 177–78.

  2Ibid.; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 38–39.

  3Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 177–78.

  4Laramie Daily Boomerang, August 5, 1911.

  5Ibid.

  6Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins; Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.

  7Individual prisoner intake forms, Wyoming State Penitentiary Rawlins; Masson journal notes.

  8Masson journal notes.

  9Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  10Ibid.

  11Ibid.

  12Guernsey Gazette, August 4, 1911; Basin Republican, August 6, 1911.

  13Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 86–89.

  14Cooley, “The Outdoor Treatment of Crime.”

  15E–mail to Duane Shillinger from Scott Alston, February 2008.

  16Carbon County Journal, January 16, 1914.

  17Laramie Republican, June 23, 1911.

  18Rawlins Republican, November 21, 1908.

  19Ibid.; Wyoming State Journal, August 1, 1911.

  20Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 177–78.

  21Ibid., 176–77.

  22Ibid.

  23Ibid.

  24Ibid.

  25Kinnaman, Frontier Legacy, 86–90.

  26Cheyenne State Leader, September 10, 1911.

  27Rawlins Republican, August 17, 1911.

  Chapter Seven

  1The Rawlins Republican, April 14, 1910, and June 16, 1910.

  2“Felix Alston,” Wyoming State Museum report.

  3Ibid.

  4Rawlins Republican, February 27, 1911; Meeting between Duane Shillinger and Chris Enss, July 26, 2013.

  5Garland Guard, December 9, 1905; Thermopolis Record, June 26, 1909, and August 11, 1910.

  6Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  7Cheyenne Daily Leader, December 27, 1907.

  8Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.

  9Laramie Daily Boomerang, September 9, 1911; Pacific Reporter, May 19, 1898.

  10Laramie Daily Boomerang, September 26, 1911; Laramie Republican, August 21, 1911.

  11Laramie Daily Boomerang, June 9, 1911.

  12Letter to Governor Carey from Mrs. Anthony Seng, July 1911.

  13Ibid.

  14Letter to Mrs. Anthony Seng from Governor Carey, July 15, 1911.

  15Letter to Governor Carey from Rev. Peter Masson, July 12, 1911.

  16Guernsey Gazette, July 21, 1911.

  17Rawlins Republican, May 25, 1911; Masson journal notes.

  18Cheyenne Daily Leader, June 25, 1911.

  19Carbon County Journal, February 9, 1912; Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 178–80.

  20Pinedale Roundup, October 17, 1912.

  21Laramie Republican, February 13, 1912.

  22Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 173–75.

  23Wyoming Tribune, October 9, 1911; Rawlins Republican, May 25, 1911; Masson journal notes.

  24Olson, “‘I Felt Like,’” 180–82.

  25Ibid.

  26Ibid.

  27Rawl
ins Republican, August 17, 1911.

  28Laramie Republican, August 25, 1911, and August 29, 1911.

  29Laramie Republican, March 20, 1912, and August 25, 1911.

  30Rawlins Republican, August 10, 1911; Kinnaman, “Frontier Legacy,” 89–93.

  31Wheatland World, October 20, 1911; Carbon County Journal, October 13, 1911.

  Chapter Eight

  1Laramie Daily Boomerang, November 6, 1911; Rawlins Republican, November 2, 1911; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 58–62; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 38; News Journal, November 11, 1911.

  2Laramie Daily Boomerang, November 6, 1911; Rawlins Republican, November 2, 1911; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 58–62; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 38; News Journal, November 11, 1911.

  3Lander Eagle, November 3, 1911.

  4Laramie Daily Boomerang, November 6, 1911; Rawlins Republican, November 2, 1911; Shillinger, In Wyoming’s Prison, 58–62; Brown, Bad in the Good Old Days, 38; News Journal, November 11, 1911.

  5Lander Eagle, November 3, 1911.

  6Cheyenne State Leader, September 22, 1911,

  7Ibid.; Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  8Park County Enterprise, November 22, 1911.

  9E–mail to Duane Shillinger from Scott Alston, February 2008.

  10Rawlins Republican, September 7, 1911.

  11Wyoming Times, October 19, 1911; Cowley Progress, October 14, 1911.

  12Sheridan Post, November 7, 1911.

  13Big Horn County Rustler, January 5, 1912.

  14Laramie Republican, April 25, 1912.

  15Baker, “Red Lights, Scarlet Women and Booze.”

  16Cheyenne Daily Leader, October 15, 1912.

  17Gould, Wyoming from Territory to Statehood, 166, 236.

  18Wyoming Times, December 28, 1916; Cheyenne State Leader, April 3, 1912; Laramie Republican, April 4, 1912.

  19Wyoming Times, December 28, 1916.

  20Carbon County Journal, May 3, 1912.

  21Ibid; Letter to Governor Carey from Rev. Joseph Conrath, April 28, 1912.

  22Letter to Rev. Joseph Conrath from Governor Carey, May 1, 1912.

  23Darmstädter Zeitung, August 12, 1919; Rawlins Republican, May 25, 1911; Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.

  24Masson journal notes, September 1910–June 1915.

  25Ibid.

  Chapter Nine

  1Wyoming Tribune, April 17, 1912.

  2James, Historical Baseball Abstract, 86–89; e-mail to Duane Shillinger from Scott Alston, February 2008.