 Previous practices of the WSGA, such as vigilantism and confiscation of cattle, were finally stopped.Many prominent leaders of the Association such as Frank Wolcott, Frank M. Canton and Tom Smith later left the area.The Johnson County War, with its overtones of class warfare coupled with the intervention ordered by the President of the United States to save the lives of a gang of hired killers and set them free, is not a flattering reflection on the American myth of the west.