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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Subject File, Cattle Kate "Cattle Kate"
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Subject 48b Cattle Kate
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Item Description:
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Cattle Kate - "Cattle Kate", no published source; n.d.
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Creator:
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from scrapbook of Pauline E. Peyton
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Date:
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Undated
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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Black Hills (Dakota Territory - 1877)
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Notes:
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vigilantes lynched Watson & Averell
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Notes:
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Watson, Ella - aka "Cattle Kate, aka Maxwell, Kate
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Notes:
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a "madam", who operated a "hogranch", aka brothel
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Notes:
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suspected "rustler" of neighbors' cattle
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Notes:
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woman's suffrage - convinced Wyoming Territorial Legislators that women were entitled to voting rights (1869)
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Notes:
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Pellett, Miss - took temperance to California (1850s)
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Notes:
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Averell, James - Miss Watson's friend & neighbor - a claims contestor
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Notes:
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brought legal court charges regarding their respective homesteads against Durbin, John; Connors, Bob and Bothwell, A. J.
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Notes:
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Bothwell, A. H. - neighbor who suspected Watson & Averell of rustling his stock
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Notes:
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Durbin, John - neighbor, who also believed Watson & Averell were rustlers
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Notes:
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Spring Canyon
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Filename:
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WPA Sub 48B CATTLE KATE.pdf
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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