Siege of the TA Ranch

Siege of the TA Ranch
	Part of Johnson County War
	; Picture of the TA Ranch taken in 1904, twelve years after the siege.
Date	April 11–13, 1892
Location	Johnson County, Wyoming
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
Cattle barons	Homesteaders
Commanders and leaders
Frank Wolcott; Frank M. Canton	William "Red" Angus
Strength
50 total; (23 were hired Texas gunmen)	200
Casualties and losses
2–7 men killed	None

The siege of the TA Ranch was a siege and the climax of the Johnson County War, which happened on April 11–13, 1892, in the TA Ranch in Johnson County, Wyoming.

The battle was fought between a group of cattle barons and their hired guns, who were trapped in the TA Ranch, and a posse of homesteaders and local lawmen who had besieged them after dozens of ranchers and their mercenaries had killed a homesteader and his friend. The siege became a pivotal moment in the war, and was depicted in a number of books, films, and documentaries over the years.