Bosler, Wyoming
On Rt 30/287 – The Lincoln Highway north of Laramie, Wyoming
September 25, 2010
Named for Frank Bosler, Bosler is an unincorporated town north of Laramie. I was intrigued by some of the structures and so we stopped briefly to walk about. The town had the feeling of a ghost town. This house was very typical of the structures. Frank Bosler was a prominent cattle rancher in Wyoming and a member of the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association and Cheyenne Cattlemen's Club. He hired a John Coble as the operations' manager for the Iron Mountain Ranch near Chugwater. Whether Bosler was involved in the Johnson County War* is unclear, however, his animosity towards the neighboring homesteaders resulted in him hiring the legendary Tom Horn.Tom Horn's reputation followed him wherever he went. He did not hesitate to brag about the number of men he killed and it did not matter to him whether the killings were justified or not. He killed for the game of it. Horn resided at the Iron Mountain Ranch and became close friends with John Coble.
· The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River, was a range war which took place in April 1892 in Johnson County, Natrona County and Converse County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It was a battle between small settling ranchers and larger established ranches in the Powder River Country that culminated in a lengthy shootout between local ranchers, a band of hired killers, and a sheriff's posse, eventually requiring the intervention of the U.S. Cavalry on the orders of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.
No comments:
Post a Comment