On the evening of May 13, 1906, Crawford’s city marshal, male, Arthur A. Moss, walked into a tense scene on the west edge of town near the city park. A beer party of soldiers from Troop B of the Tenth United States Cavalry—stationed nearby at Fort Robinson—had drawn complaints, and Moss was sent to quiet the disturbance or break it up. What began as routine peacekeeping quickly escalated. The long-simmering friction between Moss and Sergeant John Reid of Troop B—dating back to an argumen
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