When the Union Pacific guns talked, bad a*s gamblers heard the word!

However briefly! :)

"General, they all died, but bought peace.

"Julesburg has been quiet since ..."


Stephen E. Ambrose's Western History Classic:

Nothing like it in the the World: The Men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863 - 1869.

A snippet from pages 219 - 220.


"Julesburg got so bad that Grenville Dodge, who had seen a lot of young Americans downing a lot of drinks during the Civil War, stepped in.

"He heard that gamblers had taken over and refused to obey the local UP officials.

"What bothered Dodge the most was that they had taken up lands he had set aside as belonging to the UP and refused to pay for them.

"He called Julesburg a much harder place than North Platte.

"Dodge told Jack Casement to take his train force into town and clean the place up.

"Casement, who was a teetotaler, was ready.

"He marched into town that night with two hundred men.

"They met with the gamblers, who spat contempt at him and refused to pay up.

"With a quiet voice, Casement ordered his men to open fire, not caring whom they hit.

"When Dodge came to town and asked what had happened, Casement led him to a nearby hill full of fresh graves.

"[H]e told Dodge General, they all died, but brought peace. Julesburg has been quiet since..."

Way to go, good people! :)