Murder & Mob Law in the Big Horn Basin Part 2: Dark fixations and family calamities

In our last trip into Wyoming history, we left the banks of the Big Horn River on a late-summer day in 1901, where J. P. Walters confronted the recently widowed Agnes Hoover near the Thermopolis Hot Springs. Twice he had asked her to marry him, and twice she refused. He warned that if she would not be his wife, they would “die together.” Still holding her son Alfred’s hand, Agnes faced him as Walters drew a revolver and fired at point-blank range. She fell instantly.