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WOODRUFF – The Howard Young Medical Center emergency department donated 12 tourniquets and dressings to the Vilas County Sherriff’s Department SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team to assist with lifesaving intervention for active bleeds in the field.
Tourniquets are used to control life-threa
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While not part of the Old West, the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the late nineteenth century was a frontier in every sense of the word. Towns and lumber camps in the area had an overabundance of saloons, bars, and taverns, and given that the overwhelmingly male population of lumberjacks and miners had few other outlets, fights were bound to break out. One instance from Minocqua serves to illustrate how quickly things could get out of hand.
Wednesday evening, September 9, 1896, started off quiet in Minocqua. William Williams’ saloon was doing a small business. Three men going by the names of McDonald, Roach, and Gordon were sitting at a table playing cards. A fourth man, Rolly Hagen, was leaning against the entrance door taking in the night air. A young man named James Collins was tending bar. It was a dreary affair until Moses Gravel entered the saloon.