8vo. (8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches), plain black cloth, re-backed, with several pages bearingminor repairs. Annoyed and angry that strangers were settling on land in Wyoming that they thought they owned, larger cattle lords imported help fromTexas to help them drive out the “nesters” and thereby almost precipitated a civil war. The author was a journalist who supported the smaller homesteadersand thereby incurred the wrath of the Wyoming establishment. Consequently, he was threatened and copies of his book were destroyed. A rare book that describes a difficult yet important time in Wyoming’s frontier development.