It was a rebellion where cowboys fought the U.S. Army. The Johnson County War is one of the most infamous insurrections, and certainly the most famous range war, in American history.  

 The call of the Old West was irresistible to thousands of pioneers in the 19th century, promising freedom, opportunity, and a fresh start. 

 With fur trading no longer lucrative, famed frontiersman Jim Bridger opened a trading post in present-day Wyoming. 

 Beneath the dusty tumbleweeds and the crack of gunfire, the American Wild West of the mid to late 1800s harbored a different kind of vice, found within the gilded doors of bustling brothels and the coy smiles of cunning madames.