Byers was not merely “involved” with claim clubs – he was up to his eyeballs in these quasi-legal cesspools of frontier justice!

Here we attempt to unravel the tangled web of William N. Byers and his dalliances with those frontier bastions of vigilante justice known as claim clubs! Are we to believe that Byers, the first deputy surveyor of Nebraska Territory, a man who could smell a land grab from a hundred miles away, someho