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| | The Gray County Seat War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | --The population of Ford County jumped from 2,450 in 1886 to 9,218 in 1887. |
 | | These fights "were all characterized by double sets of county officers, charges of fraud and intimidation, multiple law suits, and in several cases killings, national headlines, and the calling out of state militia," according to Craig Miner. |
 | | The purpose of enlisting their services was, in part, wherever practicable, to overawe opposition by the mere terror inspired by their fearsome reputation, and in part to have them in readiness for the carrying out of any desperate project that might require physical courage and the utter disregard of all restraints of the law. |
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