Daniel C. Hansen, a 42-year-old White male, was serving as town marshal in Cokeville, Wyoming, when a threat against a local banker pulled him into what sounds, even now, like the opening scene of a frontier ambush. In the days before his death on June 21, 1912, banker Peter Olson reportedly found a blackmail note demanding $1,500 and ordering that the money be left near the Bear River bridge, marked by a red lantern. The note was signed with the names Hugh and Charley Whitney, brothers already
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