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A Christmas riot and a town divided: Revisiting ‘The Trinidad War’

Tucked in the pages of a 1973 issue of Empire Magazine is a remarkable feature titled The Trinidad War, written by Barron B. Beshoar. It recounts a violent chapter in our town’s early history—one that erupted on Christmas Day, 1867, and reveals the racial fault lines and territorial tensions simmering in the post–Civil War American West.

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