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Lost to History

by | Jan 3, 2005 | Western Movies

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A few years before the Civil War, one of the most violent episodes in Western American trail history played out on a mountain meadow in Southern Utah. Last August, an isolated, sagebrush-covered landscape on the A Bar A Ranch near Encampment, Wyoming, became the setting for a segment about that massacre for the History Channel’s Investigating History series, produced by Bill Kurtis Productions of Chicago. The show is expected to air on the History Channel December 15. In September 1857,


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