C. E. Pierce, a White male deputy sheriff, met his end in Basin, Wyoming, on the night of July 19, 1903, when the little county-seat town was overtaken by a burst of vigilante violence. Pierce was inside the Big Horn County jail, helping guard two condemned prisoners, Jim Gorman and J. F. Walters, as they waited on appeals from their murder convictions. Then, out of the dark, a masked mob rode in, armed and determined to do in minutes what the courts had not yet finished. The riders fired into t
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