4 • Buffalo, Wyoming In 1892, Buffalo was not much more than a haven for the renegades and rustlers who controlled, well, pretty much everything around: local politics, courts and even juries. At least that was the excuse of a group of cattle barons who banded together, with a long list of men they intended to hang or shoot, to invade the county in early April 1892. So began the Johnson County War, one of the most infamous clashes of the Old West. Today Buffalo, with a population of around 4,6


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