Cattle Kate Hanging Tree

Hufsmith in the wyoming lynching of cattle kate 1889 ellen watson dubbed by local newspapers in the late 1880s as cattle kate has long been thought of as an outlaw. Ella watson aka cattle kate on saturday july 20 1889 eleven months before wyoming became a state a woman and a man were hanged from a pine tree in a gulch in the central part of the territory not far from the sweetwater river.

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One story of this hanging is that jim averell was a saloonkeeper who encouraged ranch hands to drink and carouse.

Cattle kate hanging tree. Watson along with james averell was hanged by vigilantes near the sweetwater river in wyoming on july 20 1889 for the accused crime of cattle rustling. The day and date was saturday july 20 1889 when james averell a man who conducted a saloon and small store in that part of the country and ella watson who ran a hog ranch and who adopted the name of kate maxwell but who was dubbed by her friends cattle kate and was a consort of averell were hanged to the limb of a tree in spring. Cattle kate ella watson lynched.

The ranchers hung the two to rid the area of rustlers and troublemakers. Ella in this story raised a fine herd of cattle by exchanging her favors for young cattle appropriated by the ranch hands. On this date in 1889 ella watson a homesteader with a small ranch was demonstratively lynched by vigilantes of wyoming s powerful cattlemen.

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