I cowboyed with a man named John Tisdale in Wyoming in my youth. Didn’t a man by that name get killed in the Johnson County War? R.W. Garvey Prescott, Arizona You are correct; maybe the two men are related. The Johnson County conflict was a series of range wars between large cattle operations and small settlers in Johnson County, Wyoming, fighting over open range and unbranded calves, between 1889 and 1893. During the Johnson County War, small rancher John Tisdale was shot in the bac


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