COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Subject File, Cattle Kate "Cattle Kate"
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Subject 48b Cattle Kate
Item Description:
Cattle Kate - "Cattle Kate", no published source; n.d.
Creator:
from scrapbook of Pauline E. Peyton
Date:
Undated
Notes:
Black Hills (Dakota Territory - 1877)
Notes:
vigilantes lynched Watson & Averell
Notes:
Watson, Ella - aka "Cattle Kate, aka Maxwell, Kate
Notes:
a "madam", who operated a "hogranch", aka brothel
Notes:
suspected "rustler" of neighbors' cattle
Notes:
woman's suffrage - convinced Wyoming Territorial Legislators that women were entitled to voting rights (1869)
Notes:
Pellett, Miss - took temperance to California (1850s)
Notes:
Averell, James - Miss Watson's friend & neighbor - a claims contestor
Notes:
brought legal court charges regarding their respective homesteads against Durbin, John; Connors, Bob and Bothwell, A. J.
Notes:
Bothwell, A. H. - neighbor who suspected Watson & Averell of rustling his stock
Notes:
Durbin, John - neighbor, who also believed Watson & Averell were rustlers
Notes:
Spring Canyon
Filename:
WPA Sub 48B CATTLE KATE.pdf
Type:
Text