Like the character in Centennial, Clark grew wealthy by growing potatoes near, eventually switching to sugar beets and controlling more than 20,000 acres (80 km 2). The character of Hans 'Potato' Brumbaugh appears to be loosely based on the Colorado historical figure Rufus 'Potato' Clark, a failed gold prospector who turned to agriculture and became a pioneer in. The scene where Nate Person, Bufe Coker, and Fat Laura are murdered by hired killers, the Pettis brothers, bears similarity to the lynching of with the Oliver Seccombe character taking a role similar to that of. The range war depicted in the series is similar in many respects to the 1892 in. Captain John McIntosh's (Major Mercy in the novel) role in the incident and subsequent trial appears to be loosely based on. The miniseries however seems to imply that the Skimmerhorn character is a Mormon since he refers to the Arapaho as ', a term found in Mormon theology to refer to Indians, but not in Protestant or Roman Catholic doctrine.
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