In the fall of 1913, headlines across Wyoming declared the sensational news. The infamous Butting Dane got drunk and butted someone who would fight back, ending up “perforated!”

He didn't die that day, but getting shot only made his ornery attitude worse.

Jenson Le Gaard, known as Jens the “Butting Dane,” was a well-known troublemaker in the Badwater Creek District of central Wyoming.

He arrived around 1906 and spent nearly three decades terrorizing anyone who crossed his path.

This particular bar fight became infamous across the state as the Wyoming newspapers picked up a story from Riverton. Calling Le Gaard a “grading camp character,” reporters wrote that he was pursuing his favorite pastime, which was intimidating weaker men.

As the rumors were sorted from fact, the story emerged

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