When word was carried into Laramie, by a trustee named Blackie, that the renowned gunfighter Moses Quinta was coming out, a crowd began gathering in front of Dumont's General Store, the first business place giving those who waited for a glimpse of the gravel road that came down from the territorial prison. Usually the release of a prisoner was an unheralded event, with the freed man slinking along back streets to the train depot where he'd catch the first piece of rolling stock away from a place he'd learned to hate.