Asa Shinn Mercer, author of The Banditti of the Plains, arrived in Wyoming to record events for the SGA but changed his mind and instead wrote his book about their poor treatment of the cowboys. Banditti was banned from publication and is still difficult to find in some western states.

Credit: Ralph Mercer Collection

From Helena Huntington Smith, The War on Powder River (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1966)