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Mason County War
The Mason County War, sometime called the Hoodoo War in reference to a masked vigilante member of a vigilance committee,〔Sonnichsen, C.L., 1957, 10 Texas Feuds, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 9780826322999〕 was a period of lawlessness in 1875-1876 during a "tidal wave of rustling".〔 The violence resulted in a climate of bitter "National prejudice"〔 between the "Americans" and "Dutch" or "Germans"s〔Gillett, J.B., 1921, Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881, Yale University Press, ISBN 0803258445〕 in Mason County, Texas. The war took the lives of 12 men.
==Background==
Organized bands stole livestock but the spring trail bosses were also "indifferent to whose cows they drove", picking up mavericks and even other brands, though the understanding was they were supposed to return the profits to the rightful owner.〔
Germans had settled in Mason and Gillespie counties, "loyal to their adopted country and government when undisturbed" but "were sorely tried by the rustlers and Indians, who committed many depredations upon their cattle."〔 In 1860 the county's first Sheriff, Thomas Milligan,〔(The Officer Down Memorial Page ).〕 was killed by Indians. In 1872, the Germans elected Sheriff John Clark and Cattle Inspector Dan Hoerster.〔
Clark and Hoerster organized a posse to reclaim lost cattle and soon came across a herd stolen by the Backus brothers gang and eight others, capturing five of them, who were taken back to the Mason jail.〔 The captives included Lige Backus, Pete Backus, Charley Johnson, Abe Wiggins and Tom Turley.〔
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