The late eighteen hundreds was a time of growth and expansion in the this great country. The land was open and wild. Often the land was waiting for the strong to take it and make something of it. It took courage to keep it once it was settled. Laws were often few and far between. the law was often what man made of it. It was also a time when the land grew. Towns sprouted up all over the country and stagecoaches tied them together with ribbons of narrow,...