Murder & Mob Law in the Big Horn Basin Part 5: The Spring Creek Raid and the trial that changed Wyoming

In the early morning hours of Good Friday, April 2, 1909, violence erupted along Spring Creek, seven miles south of Ten Sleep in the southern Big Horn Basin. Three sheepherders were murdered. Two were burned alive inside their wagon, while a third staggered from the flames, wounded, his hands raised, only to be shot down.