On Sunday night, July 19, 1903, a White male deputy, C. E. Pierce, stood guard at the Big Horn County jail in Basin, Wyoming, while two convicted murderers—Jim Gorman and J. F. Walters—waited on appeals.
Out of the summer dark a mounted mob arrived, crossed the Big Horn River, and rode straight for the courthouse jail. They fired a warning and then a withering volley into the building; one of the first shots struck Deputy C.E. Pierce through the chest, killing him instantly, as the v
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