• The Mason County War, sometimes called the Hoodoo War in reference to masked members of a vigilance committee,: 89  was a period of lawlessness ignited...
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    The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of...
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    Johnny Ringo (category People from Mason County, Texas)
    associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which he...
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    Colfax County War, Castaic Range War, San Elizario Salt War, Mason County War, Porum Range War, Johnson County War, Pecos War, Fence Cutting Wars, Sheep...
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    Pleasant. The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Before the Civil War, the county was in...
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    Mason County is a rural county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. At the 2020 census, its population was 3,953. Its county seat...
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    Mason County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,120. Its county seat is Maysville. The county...
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    The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, constituting...
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    Jackie Custis was elected late in the war—but Mason remained the county's choice throughout. Nevertheless, Mason's health often caused him to miss meetings...
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    Pecos War, Mason County War, Colorado Range War, Fence Cutting War, Colfax County War, Castaic Range War, Spring Creek raid, Porum Range War, Barber–Mizell...
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    Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States, approximately 22 miles (35 km) north of downtown Cincinnati. As of the 2020 census...
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    Mason is a city in, and the county seat of, Mason County, Texas, United States. The city is an agricultural community on Comanche Creek southwest of Mason...
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    Its county seat is Mason City. The county is named for the Battle of Cerro Gordo, which took place during the Mexican–American War. Cerro Gordo County is...
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    Bass and gunfighter John Wesley Hardin), their involvement in the Mason County War, the Horrell-Higgins Feud, and their decisive role in the defeat of...
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  • provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
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    Bat Masterson (category Cochise County conflict)
    The "war" between the railroads was finally settled out of court. Masterson's Colorado activities did not go over well with the voters of Ford County, Kansas...
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    between bandits and lawmen. Lawless violence such as range wars like the Lincoln County War and clashes with Indians were also a cause. Some of these shootouts...
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    Fortnum & Mason (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an upmarket department store in London, England. The main store is located at 181...
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    Sitting Bull (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    mark his son's passage into manhood as a Lakota warrior. During the Dakota War of 1862, in which Sitting Bull's people were not involved, several bands...
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    Boot Hill (category Cochise County conflict)
    Bodie, California Bonanza, Idaho Calabasas, Santa Cruz County, Arizona Calico, San Bernardino County, California Canyon City, Oregon Canyon Diablo, Arizona...
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    p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4930-4815-1. Retrieved September 27, 2021. "Famous Masons". MWGLNY. January 2014. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013...
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    previously represented Frederick County, Virginia, in the Virginia House of Delegates. A grandson of George Mason, Mason strongly supported slavery as well...
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    age of 21. He is also known for his involvement in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. McCarty was orphaned...
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    The Cochise County Cowboys is the modern name for a loosely associated group of outlaws living in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona in the late 19th century...
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    Seth Bullock (category American military personnel of the Spanish–American War)
    Bullock's father, George Bullock, was forced to resign his position as County Treasurer due to missing funds. To avoid prosecution in Canada, Bullock's...
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  • List of Old West gunfighters (category Cochise County conflict)
    Marlow (1850–1941) George Marlow (1865–1945) Lewellyn Marlow (?–1889) John Mason (??–1866) Bat Masterson (1853–1921) Ed Masterson (1852–1878) James Masterson...
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    Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration...
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    plains with little or no settlement occurring. After the American Civil War the plains were extensively settled, consolidating America's dominance over...
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    Although the uprising was part of a larger one, the Mexican Federalist War, that included other provinces opposed to the regime of President Antonio...
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    Annie Oakley (category People from Darke County, Ohio)
    miles (3.2 km) northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in Darke County, Ohio, a rural county along the state line with Indiana. Her birthplace is about five...
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