Hanging Dog Ranch was a ranch located in remote Moffat County, Colorado during the Wild West era. The ranch was often used as an outlaw hideout because of its distance from civilization, and the last surviving members of the O'Driscoll Boys gang occupied the ranch until 1899, when the Van der Linde Gang outlaws Arthur Morgan and Sadie Adler killed the last of them in a shootout (parts of the ranch were burned down in the process). Afterwards, the large rancher Abel Ainsworth purchased the land and redeveloped the ranch, which would become a base for his hired guns from the infamous Laramie Gang. In 1907, following the Laramie Gang's raid on Pronghorn Ranch further south, three of Pronghorn's ranch hands - including the former outlaw John Marston - launched a retaliatory attack on Hanging Dog Ranch and killed the gang's leader Steven Boggs and several of his comrades, nearly wiping out the gang. However, the surviving members of the gang periodically returned to the ranch, using it as their sole hideout.
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