Alfred Henry Bath

Alfred Henry Bath, a 42-year-old White male from Laramie, Wyoming, was serving as sheriff of Albany County when his life came to a violent end on May 29, 1908. The scattered historical record paints the scene in stark frontier terms: Bath rode out toward Woods Landing to make an arrest, pursuing a man described in later historical accounts as a fugitive from Colorado. Somewhere on that lonely stretch, the lawman who had gone out to bring someone in was shot and killed instead, and the trip becam ...

Sheriff Alfred Henry Bath - Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)

Sheriff Alfred Henry Bath - National Gun Violence Memorial