Highlight of an Inmate... George Henry Sabin #1441 By Brain Hegg George Sabin was sentenced to be incarcerated at the Wyoming State Penitentiary November 19, 1909 for second degree murder. He was named by Herbert Brink as the leader of seven cow men who had slain three sheep men in the Spring Creek Raid. The last armed conflict between cattlemen and sheep growers occurred in the Nowood Valley at Spring Creek, 7 miles southeast of Ten Sleep, Wy. During the “Spring Creek Raid”, seven masked riders raided Joe Allemend’s sheep camp, killing Allemend, his nephew Joe Lazier and Jules Emge and burning two sheep wagons. The raid was supposedly motivated by Allemend’s bringing his herd of 5,000 sheep into the Nowood Valley which cattle interests had declared off limits to sheep. In many regions cattle men established “dead lines” which sheep crossed at the risk of their lives.
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