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First edition of "one of the rarities of western Americana" (Adams). Mercer was editor and publisher of a stock journal whose livelihood depended on paid advertisements from the cattlemen. His publication of the present work exposed the criminal activities of the Wyoming cattlemen, during the Johnson County War. The Wyoming Stock Growers Association brought a libel suit against Mercer, during the course of which much of the edition was impounded and ordered destroyed. Mercer's printing office was burned, and he was forced to flee Wyoming. Adams Herd 1474; Adams Six-Guns 1478 ("exceedingly rare"); Graff 2750; Howes M522; Reese Six Score 79.