If not for a governor’s pardon, Earl Foree still would have been in Wyoming’s state prison during a week in June 1914 as he rode into the Sheridan area on a stolen horse.

The valuable blazed-faced saddle horse he cantered on happened to belong to Big Horn County Deputy Sheriff Frank Rue of Basin.

After stealing the horse, Foree told a man at a ranch in the Big Horn Mountains where he overnighted that he was headed to Sheridan intending to kill people he blamed for putting him in prison 10 years earlier.

Across the globe in Austria, World War I was about to begin after the assassination of the archduke of Austria. Henry Ford had earlier in the year declared he would pay his workers $5 a day for eight hours of work, transforming manufacturing in the United States.

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