Miss Phipps And The Cattle Baron - Plot & Excerpts
and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all...' — Pope Sixtus V describes Elizabeth, c1588 The news was all over town, but Priscilla couldn't believe it until she'd read about it in the Cheyenne Daily Leader, and then in the Cheyenne Daily Sun. Still she stared in stunned disbelief at the headline that read:DOUBLE LYNCHING: Notorious Characters Hanged For Cattle Stealing Jim Averell and His Partner Ella Watson Meet their Fate at the Hands of Outraged Stock Growers... "Hanging from the limb of a stunted pine growing on a cliff fronting the Sweetwater River were the bodies of James Averell and Ella Watson. Side by side they swing, arms touching each other, their tongues protruding and their faces swollen and discolored almost beyond recognition..." In both articles, the newspapers, which were owned and operated by the Stock Grower's Association, portrayed Ella Watson and Jim Averell in the most despicable of terms, calling Ella a prostitute and a virago who cursed everything and everybody, and Jim a cur and a murderous coward, handy with a six-shooter.
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