George Edward Ted Price, a 31-year-old White male, died in Thermopolis, Wyoming, on August 31, 1921, in the hard, violent atmosphere of Prohibition, when law officers were still trying to choke off the small bootlegging operations that flourished in the rough spaces between town and open country. Price was serving as a deputy sheriff in Hot Springs County when he and other officers moved to arrest a man they believed was involved in running moonshine. What should have been an arrest turned into
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