but this had given him time because early some of the local neighbors there came over and looked outerbridge and given a lot of the newspapers, they were threatening to kill people and they alerted the sheriff. and then what happened is after they've finished they started moving north and by then the country was completely aroused and they grab their rifles and went charging after these guys and they finally culminated in which 45 cattleman were holed up in the a huge posse was surrounding him. over 400 men and they started shooting away at them like crazy and they reached a point where they built this incredible device and the ideas that they were going to push this down the hell to throw into this and force them out and start shooting at them. just about that time, the united states travelers showed up and rescued these individuals and what would happen is that the governor of the state of wyoming had finally figured out that these men were in trouble in that first he denied everything that was going on. he did everything to give them a clear killing field, but it backfired on them and sud