In 1878, the most infamous Nebraska showdown between settlers and cattlemen began on the Custer County homesteads of Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum, one mile south, after Ketchum’s crops were trampled by cattle belonging to Isom Prentice "Print" Olive, who brought his herds from Texas to Nebraska’s open range. After Ketchum was implicated in stealing cattle, the Buffalo County sheriff deputized Olive foreman Bob Stevens to arrest him, not knowing that Stevens was Print Olive’s brother, wanted for murder in Texas under his real name, Bob Olive. On November 27, 1878, Olive and three cowboys rode to the Ketchum homestead, where gunfire erupted, and Bob Olive was mortally wounded in the shootout and died three days later. After surrendering to authorities, Mitchell and Ketchum were briefly jailed in Kearney. On December 10, while being taken to Custer County for arraignment, they were seized by Print Olive and his men and lynched in a rugged canyon near present Callaway; when their bodies were discovered the next day, they were also found to have been burned.