Alfred Henry Bath, a 42-year-old White male from Laramie, Wyoming, was serving as sheriff of Albany County when his life came to a violent end on May 29, 1908. The scattered historical record paints the scene in stark frontier terms: Bath rode out toward Woods Landing to make an arrest, pursuing a man described in later historical accounts as a fugitive from Colorado. Somewhere on that lonely stretch, the lawman who had gone out to bring someone in was shot and killed instead, and the trip becam
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