victim woke up the next day and realized that he wasn’t going to
the heavenly Lord—at least not anytime soon—he insisted that he
had no idea who had pulled the trigger. As Grammer’s bootlegging
empire grew, he held sway over an army of bandits. They included
Asa Kirby, a stickup man who had glimmering gold front teeth,
and John Ramsey, a cow rustler who seemed the least bad of
Grammer’s bad men.
Henry Grammer received a three-year sentence after he killed a
man in Montana. Credit 28Bill and his friend arrived at Grammer’s ranch in the gathering
dusk. A large wooden house and a barn loomed before them, and
hidden in the surrounding woods were five-hundred-gallon copper
stills. Grammer had set up his own private power plant so that his
gangs could work all day and all night—the furtive light of the