As 1930 dawned, bringing in the Great Depression and a decade of lawlessness spawning the likes of Machine Gun Kelley, Alvin Karpis and John Dillinger, a masked man rode hard around Wheatland as a Cowboy State Robin Hood.

Well, sort of.

He was a masked savior to some, a bandit to others, and he was said to ride a “milk-white” horse around the Laramie Peak country between Wheatland and Douglas.

He put a bullet through a door after warning a rancher about harboring horse thieves. He left mysterious warnings to those he considered would-be rustlers planning shenanigans.

What some considered a joke took on a much more serious tone when a 20-year-old cowboy was shot through the chest, and it was blamed on the man behind the mask.

“Feeling Runs High Over Masked Rider,” a Casper Daily Tribun

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