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Steadily, uranium fever mounted. Some 1,300 claims were filed on lands in the surrounding desert and mountains. Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched...
...years ago he formed a colony in the mountains above Veyo, a tiny farming settlement about 100 miles northwest of Kanab. Only its members, both men and women, know what the colony stands for. Outsiders did know, however, that Wilson was absolute ruler of the Bull Valley settlement...
Wilson's colony heard of Kanab's uranium strike. He and some of his followers left their mountain fastness to take hotel rooms in Kanab. Wilson had prospected the Kanab area before and filed claims. Other prospectors assumed that he planned to develop or sell his property...
...Jolly Farmer. For eight months before his death, Wilson had off & on dealings with Tom Holland, a 6 ft., 200 lb. farmer from Beryl, a hamlet 150 miles to the northwest. Holland, who is as jovial as Wilson was bellicose, came to Kanab in a house trailer, with some vague agreement to work on Wilson's claims. The partners fought, made up, fought again. One day last week Holland and Wilson were observed in town, apparently in a rare mood of good fellowship. They set off to inspect new claims, returned that night, and made plans to meet...
...grey stone jail at Kanab, the 49-year-old Holland retains his amiability. His story: after one unsuccessful attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...