James Capen, a White male federal prohibition agent, died on May 11, 1928, after a raid in the Cumberland area of Wyoming turned in an instant from law enforcement routine into a fatal gun battle. Capen and another officer, Percy Epperson, had gone to a ranch near Little Muddy Creek, where they found and destroyed an illegal still. The man connected to the property was placed under arrest, and for a brief moment it may have seemed the hard part was over. But as the arrested rancher was allowed t
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