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Harry Sinclair Drago

3.80Want to ReadBuy on AmazonRate this bookHarry Sinclair Drago writes with authority and a sense of drama about the bloodiest range conflicts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana late in the nineteenth century. He details the background and events surrounding the Lincoln County War of New Mexico (1878–81), a violent struggle for economic supremacy between cattle barons and merchants; the ironically named Pleasant Valley War of Arizona (1886–92), a conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen complicated by personal vendettas and old family rivalries; and the Johnson County War of Wyoming (1892), a folly that turned bloody when big cattlemen rode against suspected and known thieves with orders to shoot.

307 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

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3.805 stars3 (30%)4 stars2 (20%)3 stars5 (50%)2 stars0 (0%)1 star0 (0%)Search review textFiltersDisplaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviewsProfile Image for David.DavidAuthor 3 books24 followersFollowFollowMay 31, 2016A very interesting compendium of brief histories about the expansion of the cattle industry and the feuds that often wracked the range country. Any subject here could be researched in much more depth, but this is a good primer if you want to understand the basic dynamics of a variety of violent outbreaks.Includes accounts of the Lincoln Co War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Fence War of Texas, the lynching of Sheriff John Larn, various Montana vigilante movements, and the Johnson Co. war in Wyoming.
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Profile Image for Thora Hrafnsdottir.Thora Hrafnsdottir21 reviewsFollowFollowDecember 31, 2013The author has an enjoyable reading style and I will be looking for more of his books. This one covers information from Arizona, Texas, Wyoming and Montana in specific, none of which I'd been familiar with before this. Interesting reading, glad I picked this up on a library visit.Profile Image for Kjeld Mikkelsen.Kjeld Mikkelsen15 reviewsFollowFollowMarch 22, 2016 The Great Range Wars Violence on the Grasslands by Harry Sinclair Drago Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews

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