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About Frank M. Canton
- Frank M.
- Canton (September 15, 1849 – September 27, 1927), born Josiah Horner, was an American Old West fugitive who had a career as a deputy U.S.
- marshal under an assumed name.
- Although an ex-sheriff 'stock detective' in Wyoming, Canton and his associates were accused of operating more by assassination than the law.
- Extra judicial measures such as the lynching of Ellen Watson inflamed public opinion against the long established big ranchers Canton worked for, and to re-establish control over grazing they funded an all out assault on those small operators considered to be rustlers.
- Canton directed Frank Wolcott's imported gunmen in their planned vigilante campaign, known as the Johnson County War, which was quickly ended by a local posse.
- Finding himself a marked man in Wyoming, Canton considered it opportune to leave the state.
- He spent most of the rest of his working life in law enforcement for the court of hanging judge Isaac Parker.
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