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| Date | February 4, 1896 |
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| Location | Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States |
| Deaths | 2 |
The Deep Creek murders were the culmination of a minor sheep war in the borderlands of Idaho and Nevada in 1896. On or about February 4, 1896, two Mormon sheepherders were killed by an unknown assailant while they were camping along a creek in what was then part of Cassia County, Idaho.
The gunfighter Diamondfield Jack Davis and his associate Jack Gleason were arrested, but the latter was released and Diamondfield Jack was pardoned in 1902, after serving six years in jail. The deaths of the two sheepherders are the only confirmed killings attributed to the conflict. However, according to author J. Anthony Lukas, the incident was "one of the last great confrontations in the sheep and cattle wars."[1][2][3]
- ^ Lukas, J. Anthony (1998). Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America. Simon and Schuster. pp. 288–289. ISBN 978-0-684-84617-0.
- ^ Myers, John M. (1997). The Westerners: A Roundup of Pioneer Reminiscences. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8236-0.
- ^ "More Idaho Treasues Just Waiting To Be Found". Retrieved June 27, 2012.