The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889 de Hufsmith, George W - 1993

Glendo, Wyoming: High Plains Press, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. Glendo, Wyoming: High Plains Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition, SIGNED by author, in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean purple cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 368 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, has two 1" closed edge tears near base of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The lynching of Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) and Jim Averell by six politically powerful Wyoming cattlemen rocked the nation in July 1889. Newspapers proclaimed that Ellen Watson was a prostitute on horseback who bartered sex for calves, that Averell was her pimp, that both were rustlers, and that somehow they deserved to be hanged from a tree in Spring Creek Gulch of the Sweetwater Valley..