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Cattle Kate is the sole woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. Background called it "range-land justice" when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a filthy thief and a filthy whore. But history was wrong. It had been all a lay. Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never been called Cattle Kate until she was inactive and they needed a justification. She was really a 29-year-old immigrant homesteader, lynched along with her partner by her wealthy and powerful cattle-baron friends and neighbors, who required her land and its precious water rights. Some people knew the truth from the start. Their voices were drowned out by the all-powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Connection. And the ones who dared speak out - like the eyewitnesses to the hangings - either vanished or mysteriously passed away. There was no-one kept to testify against the vigilantes when the truth eventually emerged to trial. Her six killers walked away scot-free. However the legend was better than the reality. For over a hundred years, newspapers, magazines, literature, and movies multiply her unpleasant legacy. Now, on the 125th anniversary of her murder, the true Ella comes alive in Cattle Kate to tell her heartbreaking report. Jana Bommersbach's debut novel bares a tale central to the european experience.
