The armed standoff between Leroy Schweitzer's Montana Freemen anti-government militant Christian Patriot group and the FBI. The members of the group referred to their land as "Justus Township" and had declared their leaders and followers `sovereign citizens" no longer under the authority of any outside government. They became the centre of public attention in 1996 when they engaged in the prolonged armed standoff

Tom Crosslin and his life partner Rolland Rohm, who held annual marijuana festivals there. After the suspicious death of a local teenager, the farm falls under investigation for months.