July 29, 1884 Corporal Phillip Cuney Baird of the Texas Rangers is ready to catch some fence cutters. The previous night, he led Pvts. W.A. Mitchell, W.W. Baker and Oscar D. Baker on a stakeout at a ranch that had its fence cut. The two Greer brothers who own the downed barbed-wire fence, William Joseph “Joe” and G.B. “Green,” are sheep raisers in Edwards County. With Texas undergoing severe drought, the Greer boys had fenced off their waterhole, Green Lake. Cowmen were angry—intole
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