The Johnson County War is one of the most brutal, vicious and pivotal chapters in Wyoming's history, when the state’s powerful cattle barons and their hired gunmen used terror and murder to drive off homesteaders.
While the legacy of the Johnson County War is everywhere around the Cowboy State, its history has slowly disappeared from the landscape.
A yearslong conflict between setters and the cattle barons came to a head in April 1892, when dozens of armed men hired by the cattlemen — who became known as “invaders” — converged on homesteaders around Johnson County, Wyoming. Their goal was to shoot, hang or otherwise murder a list of 70 troublemaking settlers
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