Edward (Ed) Samuelson

Edward “Ed” Samuelson, a White/Caucasian male guard at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, was killed on November 1, 1907, in a burst of violence that turned an ordinary day behind prison walls into a deadly escape attempt. The accounts that survive describe Samuelson as a guard caught in the path of a desperate inmate who had somehow obtained both a handgun and a stick of dynamite inside the prison. In that hard, isolated penitentiary town, where every locked door and every key matte ...

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