Historys Worst: 2000 Years of Idiocy

v. 1. 1873-'75 --
v. 2. 1876-'77 --
v. 3. 1878-'79 --
v. 4. 1880-'82 --
v. 5. 1883-'84. V. 1. 1873-75: March, 1873: Cheyenne's Eagle House burns 
 Indians restless along the Chug [Chugwater] --
April, 1873: Ranchers on constant lookout for Indians 
 White Clay mail carrier killed 
 Bull train hauls 75,000 pounds freight per trip 
 Rings for Lallee 
 Gift wagons from Jules Ecoffee no account 
 Echoes from the Modoc War 
 Stage coach stalled, soldier freezes, in blizzard 
 General Grant and family visit Cheyenne --
May, 1873: A loan from Hi Kelly 
 Deep snow from Bear Springs to Cheyenne 
 Cheyenne to Omaha by train, $31 
 The mystery of Little Mary 
 Early oil discovery near Teapot Dome --
January, 1875: A blue financial outlook 
 Lucky at cards 
 trouble in Louisiana 
 Sawing beef like ice at 51 below zero 
 Government pays eight cents for meat 
 Bids $1680 per annum on mail route from Medicine Bow to Ft. Fetterman --
February, 1875: History of Bordeaux 
 The murder of Baptiste Ladeau 
 Six Mile Ranch favorite spot for killings 
 Cy Williams sells his life dearly 
 Missouri Jim frosts his ears and gets a grubstake 
 Jim Harwood, John Boyd go for blacksmith, return slightly inebriated 
 Roundup in Goshen Hole 
 Jim Hunton out all night looking for ponies 
 Driving "Painted Horn" beeves to Ft. Fetterman 
 Lallee's allowance --
March, 1875: 102 cow hides a heavy load, sell for $5.50 each in Cheyenne 
 Gold excitement and trouble brewing in the Black Hills --
April, 1875: Pants for three brothers, $35 
 Butcher's wage, $50 per month 
 Why 80-year-old bridge across Platte [River] is still sturdy 
 Wins chairs in raffle, trades with Speed Stagner for rug 
 A bad night at cards 
 Butcher Fischer has the Quinzy [quinsy] 
 Broken legs for Ward and Jim Lane 
 "Numpa" [Nampa?] says Indians will fight for Black Hills 
 An adventure with Lallee --
May, 1875 : A peace conference that failed 
 Spring roundup 
 Brooks sells out to Guiterman [Getermann] 
 Charles E. Clay, Hunton's contemporary 
 A military expedition --
June, 1875: Walker & Johnson gather 934 beeves 
 Indians steal horses on Rock Creek and Laramie Plains 
 Gathering wire near Old Fort Casper 
 Cavalry unable to cross Platte, returns to Ft. Fetterman 
 Horse racing and liquor 
 Griffin's Ranch burned --
July, 1875: A master wagon maker 
 Eleven bull teams on the road 
 A meeting at the Natural Bridge 
 Surveyor Hammond recovers stolen horse 
 History of Bridger's ferry 
 Mrs. W.G. Bullock, descendant of George Washington 
 Lallee goes visiting 
 Gen. [General] Crook passes north --
August, 1875: Telegraph to Fetterman down 
 Indians steal Malcomb [Malcolm] Campbell's horses, kill old man 
 Haying on Box Elder and the Chug 
 Whitehead prospecting party see Indians, come to Hunton's ranch 
 Exodus of officers from Fort Fetterman 
 Making adobe brick 
 Tom Hunton survives serious illness 
 Indian Commission at Ft. Laramie --
September, 1875: Three steers for $100 
 Six weeks provisions for hay crew 
 Jules Ecoffey robbed in Cheyenne 
 Election at 3-Mile Ranch, Lallee votes too 
 Lallee ill on LaPrele, Dr. Gibson attends her 
 Indians ugly at Agency Council, kill man on Laramie, attack hay train at Bridger's Ferry, cavalry set out --
October, 1875 : Lallee recovers, return to Bordeaux 
 Bullock and Phillips bondsmen for Hunton 
 Bull calves, $38
 steers, 3Ø pound 
 A boil where it hurts, especially on horseback 
 Swan buy cattle on LaBonte 
 Freight business hits slump, bull trains go after poles 
 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians visit Ft. [Fort] Fetterman 
 Butchering and making sausage 
 Powell, Smith, and Lord haul military baggage 
 Two pioneers in their later years [Malcolm Campbell, Earnest Logan] --
November, 1875: a bargain to hold hay bottom 
 Log floor for Malcomb Campbell's house 
 26 work cattle lost, train rumbles on with remaining 64 
 Women and trouble at Fisher's, "Cully" lands in guard house, Roe in hospital 
 Bargains at quarter master's sale 
 Jim Sanders brings gold out of Black Hills worth $19.45 an ounce 
 New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie nears completion 
 A telegram about Mary --
December, 1875: The story of Little Bat 
 An elk hunt in 1875 --
Distance tables. V. 2.: Introduction: an after word: Part One, 1876 : January : A fancy note--
interest 2% per month 
 going wages--
five to forty cents per hour, fifty cents to $4.00 a day 
 Population of Wyoming 9,118
 of New York City, 926,341 
 Long Bill Dailey's brother ran the Rocky Mountain News 
 congressman Steel pressured for Platte Bridge appropriation 
 Gold rush to Black Hills becomes frenzy --
Indian resentment at invasion mounts 
 Sports event at Fort Fetterman --
baiting captured coyote with dogs 
 Fifty tons hay at $45 per ton 
 Capt. Laubenfels dismissed --
Lts. Luhn Quinn and Babbs promoted to captains 
 Stage line planned to Black Hills, Hundreds outfit for prospecting. Cheyenne Hotels overflow --
Guests sleep on floors and billiard tables 
 Sitting Bull takes to war path --
Miners clamor for extermination of the Sioux 
 Nath Williams abandons bull train on LaBonte 
 Hauphoff's Hotel at Fort Laramie --
February : Mr. Swan overnight guest at Bordeaux 
 Jim Hunton takes five-wagon hay train to Fort Fetterman 
 First stage leaves Cheyenne for Black Hills --
a five day trip 
 Colin Hunter supplies troops with sixty beeves --
Price going up 
 War with the Sioux called inevitable --
newspapers beat drums for action 
 Steady stream of miners pass Bordeaux daily, headed for "The Hills" 
 Indians raiding on Cottonwood Creek 
 General Crook readies expedition at Fort Fetterman --
foresees "unusually arduous" campaign with green troops 
 Cavalry moving North exhausts Bordeaux hay supply --
March : Hunton dreams of fighting and killing on eve of war 
 Crook's expedition leaves Fort Fetterman on disasterous [disastrous] campaign 
 Black Hills' gold brings Cheyenne business boom 
 Pioneer road map and transportation costs to "The Hills" 
 Business also booming at Bordeaux 
 Persimmon Bill Chambers kills Sgt. Sullivan 
 Ox train snowed in on Elk Horn --
short of rations --
Butcher Johnson & Walker beef 
 Custer City gets steam saw mill by bull train, has forty houses 
 New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie opened to travel 
 Hay soars to $60 ton, corn $3.50 per hundred 
 Pat Corbliss coughs up stolen money when hanged a little 
 George McMillan loses his watch at cards 
 Portugee Phillips has popular road ranch on the Chug 
 Crazy Horse wins first round --
sends Crook reeling back to Fetterman --
Officers look for scapegoats --
soldiers get drunk --
April : Heck Reel's bull train snowed in on Horse Shoe 
 Heavy traffic through Bordeaux to Black Hills 
 George Cross remembered Lallee as good cook, fine looking woman who spoke French well, thought Little Mary was her daughter 
 Bordeaux Road House gets a new dirt roof 
 Stuttering Brown, stage line superintendent, killed near Hat Creek Station 
 George Powell buys silver watch McMillan lost at cards for $75 --
May : Malcomb Campbell leaves Ft. Fetterman Hospital 
 Hunton & Kipp low bidders on Fetterman beef --
10C hoof, 11c block 
 James Hunton killed by Indians --
"buried Jim" --
and a brother's blind rage 
 Panic among travelers to Black Hills as Indian killings mount 
 Sioux tribes leave the reservations --
join for battle in the north 
 Stage driver Clark killed in ambush set for General Crook 
 War correspondents father and organize in Cheyenne 
 A poor time to lose your gun 
 Col. [colonel] Royal's command marches to join Crook --
camps at Bordeaux 
 Ferrying army across the swollen Platte no easy task 
 Indians thick between Ft. Laramie and the Chug --
settlers appeal for arms --
territorial arsenal depleted 
 Last minute efforts for peace fail 
 Crook's second expedition leaves Ft. Fetterman 2:00 p.m. May 29. V. 2. Part two, 1877 : January : General Crook, back from the wars, passes to Cheyenne 
 Borrows hay press from Senator Kendrick's future father-in-law 
 Frank Gruard [Grouard], The Sandwich islander who passed for a Sioux 
 Horse herd on Spear Fish stolen by Indians 
 Deputy Marshal Fisher after horse thief 
 Heavy travel and troop movements through Bordeaux, Cross roads of the west 
 A stabbing affray at John Owens' ranch 
 Many Chinamen traveling to the Black Hills 
 Seventeen passengerss on coach, including Deputy Fisher and prisoner McGinnis 
 Luke Voorhees, Pioneer Stage operator, whose "Treasure Coach" carried fortunes in gold 
 Circulating petition for Post Office at Bordeaux 
 Frank Ecoffey on Cheyenne coach with two prisoners 
 Indians steal Portugee Phillips' and Hi Kelly's horses, kill trapper on Cottonwood 
 Charly Clay wintering his work cattle on running water 
 Nagle & Swan offer $200 reward for stage robbers, dead or alive 
 Last Indian depredations in the Laramie region 
 Hay price at Fr. Fetterman $60 ton 
 Daily coach planned to the "Hills", more stable room needed at Bordeaux --
February : Builds house on Tom Hunton's homestead 
 Bailing hay on the Nick Janis' ranch 
 General Miles wins victoory on the Yellowstone 
 small pox at fort Laramie, one man dies 
 Alvah W. Ayers finds Charly Clay's work cattle 
 John LaMotte gets $40 a month job 
 Another prophetic dream, jealous women fighting over him 
 Domestic crisis, goes buggy riding with "E", Lallee leaves him 
 Hay bales weighed 200 pounds, eight-wagon bull train hauls 34 tons to Ft. Fetterman 
 Indian scare at Fagan's ranch 
 Hay for Luke Voorhees' stage line at $32 ton 
 Thirteen dollar hay brings $60 baled and delivered at Ft. Fetterman 
 Britisher badgered at hay camp 
 Train attacked on Black Hills Road, one killed, Ft. Laramie troops to rescue 
 Horse stealing along the Laramie and Platte, other indian depredations 
 Confides his trouble with Lallee to her brother, Little Bat 
 Tells Squaw to go, suffers pangs of regret, would rather have seen her die 
 W.G. Bullock disapproved for post trader appointment, his squaw record hurt him 
 Velvet har, Brass heeled shoes and Merino hose for some lady --
March : Transportation magnates of pre-railroad days 
 William Pye steals Jim's money and flees, the boys bring him back 
 Eternal triangle, hears Lallee has been "toying" with Joe Morris 
 Squaw camp on the Laramie 
 Sends Lallee to reservation, but she does not stay there 
 Building new stage station at Bordeaux 
 F.M. Phillips throws his squaw away but keeps the children 
 Anguish for nothers when red and white mates parted 
 Buying cattle for Indian beef 
 Eula Wulfjen [Mrs. John B. Kendrick] traveled the Texas trail in '73 at age of fifteen months 
 Eighteen below zero in March 
 Heavy stage coach travel through Bordeaux to Black Hills 
 Indians surrendering horses and guns at Red Cloud Agency 
 General Crook relaxes at Ft. Laramie 
 Lallee had a sewing machine 
 Road agents did not molest the lady 
 Making shoes for work cattle 
 The remarkable Johnny Owens, Twenty notches on his gun 
 Tom Hunton first Postmaster at Bordeaux 
 McQuade kills the Jacksons --
April : Lure of Black Hills' gold spreads over the nation 
 Johnny Slaughter, stage driver, killed by road agents 
 Col. Carpenter conducted tours for miners 
 Hunton brothers qualify to handle mail 
 John Boyd builds Homestead House 
 Indians stealing horses on Bear Creek 
 D.H. Russell buys a $60 bull 
 An irrigation system at Bordeaux 
 Capt. Van Vliet's stallion brings $150 
 Small pox victims left at Chugwatter by Army train 
 Cold, wet journey from Bordeaux to Ft. Fetterman 
 Capt. Pollock survived the Frontier Wars to die in fall down stairs --
May : Crazy Horse surrenders his warriors but not his spirit, sought death and found it 
 John R. Smith turn the table, shoots bandit who came to rob him 
 Beef bids for Forts Fetterman and Reno 
 Andy Sullivan's bones found by roundup party, he was Governor Sinmpson's great uncle 
 Ton Hunton sick, treated by doctor passing to the Hills 
 Bordeaux Irrigation system completed 
 James Monroe helped build Cow Hide Dam across the Chug 
 Chinamen bring lauandry service to Black Hills' miners 
 Roundup crew dissatisfied, maybe the cook was on a toot 
 Posey Wilson sues, attaches hay money 
 Billy Bacon and Jack Sanders [Saunders] rubbed each other out 
 Little Bat finds "Bob " horse in Indian hands 
 Lallee, Old Squaw and Little Bat visit Hi Kelly 
 Political plum, Sutlers and post traders had monopoly at frontier posts 
 Horse thieves go too far, steal Judge Hauphoff's stock 
 Lallee again sent agency, again she does not stay 
 Andy Carr recovers some of his horses from Indians 
 John Owens buys $30 bull calf 
 Thirty dollars a month job for Newcomb. v. 2 1877 [cont.] June : Gathering cattle with lower roundup from Sidney, Nebraska to Ft. Laramie 
 The Janis boys, Wiulliam and Pete, killed by Richard [Reshaw] brothers in Christmas brawl 
 Awarded contracts on hay for Ft. Reno, hay and beef for Ft. Fetterman 
 Charley Mathews builds on Platte hay bottom opposite old Indian agency 
 Tax collector Provines makes his rounds 
 Storm washes out bridges on Chug and Hunton Creeks 
 Did you ever see a perfect rainbow in the moonlight? 
 Lallee leaves again, takes bed and clothing with her 
 The "S O" brand used on Wyoming's first herd of beef cattle 
 Agrees to deliver all hay within forty mile radius to Ft. Reno 
 Three stage robberies in week, loot totals $20,000, and the road agents also had their litttle joke 
 Mrs. Bill Waln was a hardy pioneer mother --
July : Extra hay for Fort Reno at $65 ton 
 Who fenced in the Red Bluffs hay bottom 
 Dave Cottier gets hay hauling job at Reno 
 Herman Haas a skilled workman, ox yokes and bows his specialty 
 Buys Colin Hunter's bull outfit, 19 yoke cattle and 4 wagons 
 Old Mr. Clay, of Virginia, visits W.G. Bullock 
 Posey Ryan sub-contraccts Fr. Reno hay, had stormy life, peaceful death 
 Directing far-flung hay and beef operations from sick bed 
 Medical services came high in 1877, too. 
 Adolph Cuny killed by Clark Pelton at Six Mile ranch 
 Gets well fast when Newcomb starts cooking 
 Financed by First Bank of Omaha --
August : How Caspser got her start 
 Moves cattle herd to Box Elder 
 Brown & Yates teamster killed, wagon master wounded, by Indians 
 Hunting hay and game across northern half of Wyoming 
 Little Bat discovers new hay meadows southeast of Lake DeSmet 
 Relaxing at Fort Fetterman after strenuous journey 
 Hears report of Brigham Young's death 
 Wilderness hay party buys army provisions --
September : Hunton herd established on Box Elder 
 Stuart moves his cattle east 
 Accidental suicide at Fr. Fetterman hog ranch 
 Maj. Woolcott's cattle destroy hay at mouth of Deer Creek 
 Business and pleasusre trip to Omaha and Chicago, with Gen. Crook for traveling companion 
 Theatre offerings, Booth in "Brutus" at McVickers
 Barrett in "Richard the Third" at Hooleys 
 Many new things seen at the fair 
 Carriage Tour of the city, and an eye full of Chicago night life 
 Union Pacific Train robbed at Big Springs, Nebraska, Loot $70,000 in cash 
 Swan Cattle empire getting a start 
 F.M. Phillips weds Miss Miller, opera singer 
 Governor Thayer's clemency sought for Dan Titus 
 Hi Kelly building new brick house 
 Indian gathering at Big Bat Pourier's 
 Smith buys Kent's cattle, $20 for cows, $30 for steers 
 New hay press cost $840 at Chicago 
 Omaha Bank advances $4765 on voucher for 148 tons hay --
October : Cattle drive from Bordeaux to Fetterman, George Drake in charge, Biilly Bacon and Wm. Hinson helpers 
 Hay hands dissatisfied, no pay, live on rations borrowed from Army 
 Hay contract completed, Hunton shells out $4000, everybody happy 
 New hay press arrives from Chicago, works okay 
 Another trip to Omaha, gets $10,500 advance on hay vouchers for $12,000 
 Buys tombstone for Jim Hunton's grave 
 Contracts to bridge Chugwater Creek for $350, Mr. Smith hews the timbers 
 Brands work oxen "L D" --
November : How Babcock happened to take up stage robbing 
 Little Bat Garnier sells his mules for $375 
 Lt. Chase stops at Bordeaux with captured road agents, collects $400 reward 
 Five hundred dollar check to Wm. J. Cave carefully preserved 
 Business and banking memoranda 
 No diary for December, 1877. V. 3, Part one, 1878 : January, 1878 : Rutherford B. Hays was 19th president of the United States 
 John R. Smith comes collecting for hay 
 A sixty mile horseback ride through deep snow 
 Loafing in Cheyenne, "The magic city " was "Bad business" 
 getting repairs for machinery no simple matter 
 How sheriff Carr delivered the Poll books 
 Names of a hay baling crew at F.M. Phillip's ranch 
 Railroad subsidy bonds carry, the squaws voted too 
 Wyoming was first state to extend franchise to women, one reason 
 Family reunion at Little Bat Garnier's 
 A bond that was hard to break 
 Pioneer woman recalls poignant episode with Lallee 
 Edwin C. Smith, summary of his career 
 Early brands of Tom Sun, O.P. Johnson, Sam Foley and Jim Cantling 
 Bull team freight rates changed with the seasons 
 How they measured hay stacks in 1878 --
February, 1878 : Tom Mathews tattles on L.P. Justy, reports bad condition at Ft. Fetterman 
 Petition for bridge actoss the Chug sent to county commissioners 
 Lallee's horse, stolen by Indians in 1876, sighted on Horse Shoe Creek 
 Blacksmith George Levers burns up posts and poles, gets fired 
 Brands recorded in Laramie City 
 February hunt stopped by snow and storm 
 Black Coal killed in Arapahoe tribal row 
 Leg broken in runaway, lies helpless in blizzard until midnight 
 Long siege in Fort Fetterman Hospital follows accident 
 George Powell get wood contract at $7 per cord --
March 1878 : Broken leg slow to heal and painful 
 Terrific five-day blizzard strikes March 8 
 Mail sent from Ft. Fetterman by pack horses, none received for ten days 
 Recurring nightmare prevents sleep, dreams his heart stops 
 Many dead cattle reported in storm's wake 
 Lt. King recaptures Parker's stolen mules 
Twenty-five years later soldier-novelist Charles King writes nostalgic letter 
 George Powell and Maggie Scogille marry 
 Fort Fetterman stable collapses 
 Thirty-five days in hospital, Bill $41 
 board $50, nurse $13 --
April 1878 : Tom Reed was member of Persimmon Bill Chamber's outlaw band 
 Shorty Ezelle represents Hunton on Spring roundup 
 Big Bat Pourier pays visit to Bordeaux 
 Freight rates 85 cents per hundred from Cheyenne to Bordeaux, via bull train 
 William Hanson, discharged for drunkenness, steals pistol and leaves 
 Wulfjen family and Colin Hunter dinner Guests at Bordeaux 
 "Numpa" comes, takes squaws to Laramie River 
 Bill Waln hauls 14,000 pounds freight to Fetterman with ox team 
 Tom Hunton buys a $20 watch 
 Lallee married Frank Gruard, Crook's half Hawaiian scout, in later years --
May, 1878 : Railroad survey party working near Bordeaux 
 Roundup brings 2500 cattle from Goshens Hole 
 Crawford poisons self by accident at Johnny Owens' ranch 
 Robert Fryer, poet-blacksmith, has a sick spell 
 Beef bids for Fort McKinney, $7.48 per hundred on block, $7.10 on hoof 
 Builds raft-ferry across Box Elder Creek, but it does not work 
 Charley Wiley shot and killed by Charly Moore 
 pay day at Fort Fetterman, recruits and "rounduppers" arrive 
 Roundup working both sides of the Platte 
 Inspecting new road from Rock Creek to Fetterman 
 Bill Bullock [Halfbreed] befriended in Cheyenne, he tooured Eutope with Buffalo Bill Cody 
 Heavy troop movements North, officers dine at Bordeaux 
 Lallee ill, objects to medicine, doped with castor oil, tincture of opium and quinine regardless, recovers 
 To Omaha for bidding on government contracts 
 Decoration Day card game with officers and friends 
 Tim Dyer's "Button" of Black Hill's gold valued at $7,400 --
June, 1878 : Seeing sights in Omaha with Yates and Noble 
 Buys three mowing machines of Herman Haas 
 March blizzard of 1878 was worst ever. How Freighter Smalley saved his mules, Francis E. Warren traveled on foot when horses and sleds failed 
 Drift south of Cheyenne was mile wide, 18 feet deep 
 Hunton's hay crews organized at Bordeaux, Forts Fetterman, Reno and McKinney 
 E. Tillotson buys Joe Taylor's herd 
 Ft. McKinney moved to Clear Creek, Hay contract relet 
 Governor Thayer carries first mail over new Rock Creek-Fetterman Road 
 Buys new $16 pistol and $7.50 worth of ammunition 
 Tax valuations on livestock and equipment in 1878 --
July 1878 : Crazy Woman Creek, It's place in Wyoming history 
 Hay prospects look ppr, bids too high on McKinney contract 
 Little Bat finds lots of hay near Lake DeSmet, too late to save contract 
 Thomas J. Foster was Johanson County's first permanent settler 
 Loses McKinney contract, sells haying outfit and supplies to Snyder 
 Who killed Ed Hewitt? 
 Gen. Merritt and family camp at Brown Springs 
 Ft. Fetterman declared off limits to Scott Murray 
 Finds Wolcott cutting Fetterman reservation hay 
 Carey's herd arrives on Box Elder 
 Joseph M. Carey's remarkable political career 
 Thomas Edison in Wyoming to study sun's eclipse, gets idea which lights up the world --
August 1878 : Billy Bacon breaks leg at Bordeaux, Jim Monroe takes him to Fr. Laramie 
 Luke Murrin's expedition to Black Hills blocked by President Grant 
 Traveling dentist Barns visits Bordeaux, borrows silvertailed mare for ride to Cheyenne 
 Jim Berry robbed stage coaches and trains, maybe as a side line 
 Tar-She-Nah-Ze and Lallee go to Laramie River, Lallee returns ill, Dr. Joseph called 
 Branson passes with Texas cattle, He and Clay buy bulls, three for $100 
 Jim Shaw drove cattle up the Texas trail in 1878 
 Newsman Bronson came west with Nervous Breakdown following Henry Ward Beecher trial 
 Billy Irvine and Tom Branson fought the "Battle of the cook stove" 
 "The hand" again visits Bordeaux 
 Suffering with "Nervous Head", brain dull and stupid, thinks it is Mountain Fever 
 Butter thirty cents a pound, dentist bill $23 and Dr. Joseph gets $50 for attending Lallee --
September 1878 : Fried chicken for Sunday dinner at Bordeaux 
 Hi Kelly buys Jim Lane's horses, Hunton take 25 head 
 Tom Swan's herd passes Bordeaux 
 Johnny Gordon, Road Ranch proprietor at Uva. called Father of Wheatland irrigation 
 Gordon got a stormy welcome to Wyoming, found refuge with Billy Bacon and later bought him out 
 Wattling calves on the nose at Box Elder roundup 
 Promises Governor Thayer to haul 75,000 pounds of freight 
 Drives 65 miles from Horseshoe to Bordeaux in day 
 Little Bat and sister Lallee visit Cheyenne 
 Fred Schwartz had Road Ranch-Stage station on Lodgepole Creek 
 Mrs. Schwartz loses unborn baby fleeing from drunken cowboys 
 Their daughter, Minna Schwatrz, chorus girl in original "Prince of Pilsen" cast, marries columnist Franklin P. Adams 
 How Russell Thorp became a match-maker 
 Cold Springs "Treasure Coach" stage robbery, a case of cold blooded murder 
 W.G. Bullock attends political meeting at Hi Kelly's 
 A nine thousand dollar month for Hunton, but he spent $8,000 --
October 1878 : Hostile Cheyenne Indians cross R.R. between Cheyenne and Laramie City 
 Jim Bellamy is shotgun man on Union Pacific Railroad 
 Horseshoe Creek battle as told by John R. Smith 
 Bullock's squaw and Mexican find stolen horses at Rock Creek 
 Pease nominated for congress by Democrats at Rawlins convention 
 Bull train leaves Rock Creek for Fetterman with 40 tons of sacked corn 
 J.W. Downey chosen Republican Congressional candidate at Cheyenne 
 Wyoming cattlemen shipping from Sidney, Nebraska 
 Tom Hunton and Dan Titus kill mountain sheep near Bordeaux 
 Zack Thomasson range manager for Swan Company, salary $3600 a year 
 Rogers surveying land along Chugwater Creek 
 Lallee and Hunton go traveling, "noon" at Gordon's, spend night at Tobe Miller's on Cottonwood 
 Six thousand dollar month for Hunton, expenditures $5000 --
November, 1878 : Old timers electioneering, Hunton does not vote 
 Six Mile Hog ranch robbed, Mail held up on Bozeman Trail and Jim Berry's mysterious absence 
 Captain Coats sells chickens on the side 
 Tom Maxwell a suicide at Dyer's Hotel 
 George Via sells hay at $8 per ton 
 Troop movements to and from Fort Fetterman 
 The James boys had outlaw headquarters on Little Goose Creek 
 Poss Comitatus restrictions hinder troops in preventing mail robbery 
 More details about the "Battle of Horseshoe Creek " --
December, 1878 : Moves milk ranch to Box Elder, turns shops over to Robert Fryer 
 Parks freight wagons for Winter, turns work cattle out to graze, pays off "Train hands" 
 From Bordeaux to Cheyenne, A day's drive with a good team 
 Christmas is "Absolute holiday" at Bordeaux, Billy Bacon and wife call 
 Sam Groves has a lot of wages coming 
 How Bullwhacker Kellogg helped build Wyoming 
 Noel Seminole gets $75 for squatter's right to a good ranch 
 A $40,000 year for Hunton, of which maybe $1,000 was profit 
 Bull train freight rates from Rock Creek to Fts. Fetterman and McKinney. v. 3. 1878-'79, Part two- 1879 : January, 1879 : New models every year no essential 
 Beef bids for the military, a comparison of the "price spread" then and now 
 Convinced he has heart disease, half century of active living ahead 
 Ed Chaplain hitch hikes bull train ride in zero weather 
 Cheyenne Indians massacred at Fort Robinson 
 Lallee reports Little Bat's "jaw bone amputated", he make quick recovery 
 Curly Coleman buys hay for Six Mile Ranch 
 Fifth Cavalry camps at Chug Springs, consumes 6,900 pounds hay 
 Builds new shops at Box Elder Ranch 
 Hard month on stock, many work and beef cattle dead on the range --
February, 1879 : Maybe there were two Jim Berrys, one an outlaw, one a builder 
 Little Bat hauling logs for bridge 
 Sawing lumber at Fort Fetterman 
 Dan Titus fails to please as blacksmith 
 A Spring bath and clean clothes 
 Overhauling freight wagons at Box Elder shops 
 Tries out coal from Lacey's mine, Frank Lacey arrested 
 George Powell buys Heck Reel's Freight outfit 
 Range cattle near starvation, none fit for beef 
 All hands sick, sounds like the flu 
 Building house at Box Elder's headquarters --
March, 1879 : Bags white deer on hunt 
 Maj. Mason assumes FT. Fetterman command 
 Burning charcoal for Army at 30 cents a bushel 
 Finds ten dead cattle on Box Elder 
 Mail contractor blows up, government takes over 
 Maj. Frank Wolcott conceives the Johnson County War 
 Grand view of Big Horns, Pumpkin Buttes and Powder River Range from Pole camp on Deer Creek --
April, 1879 : George Drake employed by stage company 
 Capt. Powell defeated Red Cloud in "Wagon box fight " 
 Johnny Owens trades ranch on Chug for 75 tons of hay and 15 Texas steers 
 Buys eight freight wagons of Herman Haas 
 To Omaha for Government contract letting 
 Five bandits really cleaned out W.P. Noble's cow camp 
 Henry Wagner was Laramie City's first dry goods merchant 
 Bids on hay, wood and charcoal for Forts Laramie, Fetterman and McKinney 
 Hogerson twins born at Fort Fetterman, new experience for both mother and doctor, but everyone helped 
 four horses for $272 at Government sale 
 Beef bids for Forts Robinson, Laramie, Fetterman and McKinney 
 Ninety-five dollars buys a set of harness --
May, 1879 : Russell Thorp had fine horses, summary of his career 
 Frewen Brothers built a castle on Powder River, but the Buffalo's Skull outlasted it. 
 Many outfits out on roundup 
 Fetterman commander approves herding cattle off hay meadows, easier said than done 
 Gorge McMillan offered $6500 for 1000 cords wood delivered at Fort Fetterman 
 Hunton's roundup crew: tom Hunton, Jim Berry and Bill Waln, with Bob Waln cook and chuck wagon skinner 
 Gathering work cattle, "necking" young steer, overhauling wagons, bull whackers arrive 
 Tax valuations on cattle in 1879 --
June 1879 : Roundup swims herd across Platte River 
 Lallee and sister visit their brother, Little Bat 
 Necks 37 new work oxen --
sells 10 to McMillan, 6 to Waln 
 Bull train rolls from Fetterman to Rock Creek for 175,000 pound cargo 
 Sord & Smith sell ox train --
100 cattle, 15 wagons for $5,000 
 How Hat Creek Station got located on the wrong creek 
 Bull train makes 20 miles in day --
6 tons grain to each team at creek 
 Mrs. W.G. Bullock ill in cheyenne 
 Hot spell at Bordeaux --
99 degrees in house, 118 in sun 
 Large panther sighted on Horse Shoe Creek 
 Lind gathers 1600 "CY" cattle on Box Elder 
 Extra bulls and chains help freight train cross the Platte 
 Boots $9, Trotting Assn. $25, subscription to Cheyenne Leader $10 --
July 1879 : Hay harvest on Box Elder completed in one week 
 Thermometer 100 in shade, 130 in sun at Fort Fetterman 
 Buys lame cattle from Taylor, 26 head for $275 
 fort Fetterman orders 150 tons baled hay 
 Freighter handly taken from bull train to Fetterman Hospital 
 George McMillan hauling firewood to Fetterman 
 Controversy with Wolcott over Deer Creek hay --
Fetterman commander refuses to intervene 
 Dan Titus loses his mules 
 Mrs. W.G. Bullock not expected to live 
 Tooth doctor's bill $105 --
August 1879 : Lum Waln charged $10 for passengers, 5c pound for freight, from Cheyenne to the Black Hills 
 All freight wagons on the road --
eight teams haul 30 tons hay from Deer Creek to Fetterman 
 Thayer pays $2000 freight bill 
 Mrs. W.G. Bullock dies in Cheyenne --
husband accompanies body to Lynchburg, Virginia 
 John Denny drove stage for a long time 
 High employment turnover among bull whackers 
 colin Hunter sells bull team, six work cattle and wagon, for $200 
 "Hand" and squaw visit three days at Bordeaux 
 Bull train off to bad start --
one wagon breaks down, another upsets at Chug Sprpings and night herder loses cattle 
 I.C. Whipple active in Pioneer Chamber of Commerce 
 Gold button from Black Hills valued at $7,400 
 Bob Walker one of first permanent settlers on Horseshoe Creek 
 Rumor that Colin Hunter has sold out to Swan 
 Skunk bites him on top of head 
 Dave Lord hired to run bull train, 14 wagons and 98 cattle for $75 month 
 Trailing beeves from Fetterman to R.R. at Pine Bluffs --
twelve day trip 
 Wolcott's herd of 5000 passes Box Elder 
 Robert Fryer's Blacksmith and Wagon shop a busy place 
 Shirt and vest cost $6, watch $12 and trunk $11 
 Francis E. Warren became senior member of U.S. Senate --
September 1879 : Paid for 378 cords wood, 118 tons hay --
cow hides bring 8 1/2 cents pound 
 Big Bat Pourier and family Bordeaux visitors 
 five-team bull train hauls 35 tons baled hay 
 Bordeaux to Cheyenne a day's drive for good team 
 Attend Masonic Lodge for first time in twelve years 
 Shipping cattle from Pine Bluffs 
 Why Col. Pratt call Cheyenne Culb member "Herefords" 
 Feris-Haggerty mine in Carbon County sells for million dollars 
 Steers $3.20 per hundred in Council Bluffs $3.90 at chicago --
weigh 1200 to 1400 pounds 
 See "Pinafore" in Chicago --
decides once is enough 
 Henry and Will Swan pioneered cattle raising in Saratoga Valley-Headquarters at Ft. Steele, Brand "L7" 
 Gets hay press repairs from Dodge at Flint, Michigan, "Nice town of about 10,000". 
 Jane Combs stars in "Lady Teasel" 
 State fair at Detroit has good displays of cattle and agriculturaal implements 
 General Crook is traveling companion 
 Col. A.T. Babbitt promoted smelter at today's ghost town of Fairbanks 
 Fire destroys Deadwood business section --
Merchants quickly rebuild 
 Bill Waln quits freighting --
goes home to Iowa 
 Baling hay at McUlvan's and Colin Hunter's all month 
 Money month --
receipts $8000 during september, 1879, and he does some high living --
October 1879 : Utes on war path --
Charles Frederick among troops sent against them 
 "Thornburg's Massacre" --
and how a "corpse" came to life 
 Fall roundup and potato digging time 
 M.F. Coleman had ranch where Fetterman road crossed Bitter Cottonwood 
 Chugwater Telegraph operator Frank also line repair man 
 Work cattle worn and thin --
some die under the yoke 
 Train load Colin Hunter's hay leaves Bordeaux for Fetterman 
 Making one hundred 200-pound bales was a good day's work 
 Warren Sawyer proved up on Homestead in 1876 
 A horse deal with Judge Joseph M. Carey. 
 C.F. Miller credited Bible and pair of scissors with saving his life 
 S.F. Nuckles had "traveling store" which followed building of Union Pacific 
 J.W. Donnelan was cashier of Laramie City's First Bank --
November 1879 : Wood and hay for Fort Fetterman bring over $5000 
 Hunting Winter pasture for work cattle along the Bozeman Trail 
 Freight season over, yokes and chains stored away, All hands paid off 
 Dave Lord takes 164 oxen to Winter range on dry Cheyenne 
 Fred St. Dennis starts Road Ranch at Horseshoe Crossing 
 To Denver, Golden and Georgetown with "Legislative Excursion" 
 Erasmus Nagle headed Wyoming Capitol building commission --
built Cheyenne's finest home --
December 1879 : Maj. Frank Wolcott, controversial figure, represented British interests, helped organize Converse County 
 L.P. Justy ill at Bordeaux, Dr. Grimes called from Ft. Laramie 
 Arthur Coffee accidentally shoots and kills self 
 Teschmacher & DeBillier buy Duck Bar Ranch --
a fabulous pair 
 How Jim May lost his prisoners --
they escaped into eternity 
 Bob Walker was a lonsome man --
His wives did not like the wilderness 
 Tom Hunton and Dan Titus go hunting --
take provisions for two weeks 
 Treating sore-backed saddle horses 
 Pioneer ranchers on LaBonte and LaPrele Creeks 
 Goodby Lallee --
she leaves bordeaux with gifts of team, wagon, harness and money 
 a dull Christmas in Cheyenne --
sickness follows the Holidays 
 The remarkable Madame Lurline Monte Verdi, physician and surgeon to an outlaw gang 
 an era of the frontier passing --
fantastic new one is a'borning. v. 4. 1880-'81-82 : Part one : Prelude : Ah-ho-appa, daughter of Shan-tag-alisk --
Legend of Fallen Leaf --
January 1880 : Starts New Year convalescing in Cheyenne hotel 
 Dickering with Smith Brothers and A.V. Larimer on sale of herd 
 Cheyenne elects city officials 
 Tom Hunton attends dance on Laramie River, returns home next day 
 Railroader Woods shown country from Swan's on Sybille Creek north to Irvine's Ranch 
 Oxen die on January bull-train journey 
 Hotel bill $47.25, doctor's fee $29 during three weeks sick spell --
February 1990 : Jim Lane was "Buffy Boss" of Searight Brothers range 
 F.M. Phillips sells herd to Warner for $19,800 
 Bob Hamilton and others arrested, charged with stealing Army mules 
 Fred St. Dennis had a good start, tragic end 
 Reaches Bard's ranch through worst storm ever experienced 
 buys young stallion "Ethan Allen" for $450 
 J.C. Clark says C.M. & P. railroad will be built in Spring 
 Hunton promised pass on all Union Pacific trains 
 Titus and Monroe haul 80 tons hay from Bullock Place to Fort Laramie 
 Building new stabel at Bordeaux 
 Skew Johnson passes with a lady 
 Sliding scale job for Frank Browning --
March 1880 : Dan Titus building wardrobe for W.G. Bullock 
 Hi Kelly and Hunton guests at Fort Laramie's Rustic Hotel 
 Tobe Miller sells his herd and Patton his ranch 
 Mining boom between Fort Laramie and Running Water 
 Rich strikes of gold and silver reported --
prospectors flock in 
 Heck Rell, Fred Schwartz, Skew Johnson and Hunton among first to file claims 
 Great Western Mining and Milling company operated at Silver Cliff 
 O.J. Demmon ran Silver Springs Road Ranch, John Montgomery one at government farm and Jack Madden the stage station at Running Water 
 Another heart attack follows all the mining excitement 
 Provines surveys Tom Hunton and Johnny Owens claims, also irrigation ditches on both sides of Chug --
fee $60 
 Publisher Glafcke, M.E. Post and F.E. Warren helped make Cheyenne the mail and supply center for the Black Hills 
 New iron roofing for house at Bordeaux 
 Building rock dam for Johnny Owens irrigation ditch 
 Town site of "Brackett City" laid out in Muskrat Canyon --
business booms 
 How Goldschmidt won his seat beside stage driver Lathrop 
 Pays fifty cents for a copy of "Gaiety" --
April 1880 : To Cheyenne for Stock Growers Meeting --
time for roundup set 
 fifth Cavalry establishes new post on Running Water 
 Has first drink of wine in five years 
 w. B. Williams and Lem smith boy Box Elder cattle herd for $34,000 
 Settles up with L.P. Justy, Malcolm Campbell, Robert Fryer and others 
 Searight's roundup at Fort Fetterman --
Jim Berry joins as Hunton's "rep" 
 Bargains with Dave Lord to run ox-train 
 Bill Freeland, George Harris and E.H. Redfern to put in firewood 
 Confederate General J.L. Kemper receives financial lift --
May 1880 : Charlie Wright to haul hay from Bordeaux to Fort Fetterman for $20 ton 
 Speed Stagner lowest bidder on beef for Fetterman at 10 cents a pound 
 Carey and Wolcott roundup outfits camp at Box Elder 
 Tom Mathews gets a big pay check 
 Malcolm Campbell placed in charge of Box Elder ranch 
 Loans F.M. Phillips $2000 for ninety days 
 Building ditches, bridges, flumes etc. for Bordeaux Irrigation System 
 Tom Hunton proves up on claim --
brother John pays a lot of debts 
 Republicans meet in Laramie, elect delegates to National Convention 
 Visits General Flint and family at Fort Sanders 
 Buys Col. Van Vliet's old white stallion for $225 
 Swan's roundup party passes Bordeaux 
 Railroad survey runs through Hunton Meadows and corrals 
 1,000 cattle for $34,000 with 166 calves thrown in 
 Cheyenne Trotting Association Fee $25 --
June 1880 : Contracts to supply Fort Fetterman with 700 cords firewood at $8 per cord 
 Teamster shortage --
has only 96 oxen working 
 Malcomb Campbell shows Charley Wright the road to Wagon Hound 
 Has "fine chase" after mountain sheep with Little Bat 
 How Little Bat Garnier met death 
 Lallee and Jessie at Little Bat's, but Hunton "did not see them" 
 Lallee's sister, Jessie or Gency, one of Speed Stagner's squaws --
he traded a horse for her when she was 14 
 Col. Royal inspects Fort Fetterman 
 "Slippery" Sam slaymaker ran popular road ranches on LaPrele and at Buckshot 
 Contracts to deliver 1200 bushels of charcoal at 25 cents a bushel 
 Malcolm Campbell's salary as boss at Box Elder is $40 a month 
 Sam Groves has a $2500 pay day 
 Wins $53 at cards during June, losses $90 --
July 1880 : contracts to deliver 400 telegraph poles at $1.75 each 
 Attending races and doing nothing in Cheyenne --
Church twice on Sunday 
 John Sparks sells 24 steers at $30 per head 
 Hay harvest starts July 16 at Bordeaux 
 Swan, Nagle and others gather cattle in Goshen Hole 
 John London appointed post trader at Fort Laramie 
 Buys Nick Janis' place at Little Moon for $3350 
 Receives patent for Preemption claim 
 Legend of how Chugwater Creek got its name 
 Bad man Martin out to get Lowyer Corlett 
 but the vigilantes get Martin first 
 Prisoner roamed streets with baill and chain before Cheyenne had a jail 
 Dave Lord loads bull-train with 65,900 Lbs. of freight --
August 1880 : Circus draws Country people to Cheyenne 
 E. Tillotson sells Fetterman Sutler store to Nichol 
 Takes Mrs. charltom to see "Through Death Valley" --
a "Snyde" play 
 C.P. (Dub) Meek one of the earliest freighters to the Black Hills 
 w. G. Bullock goes East --
had half interest in Hunton's first herd 
 Tom Davis and the "Missourians" put up Little Moon hay 
 Gets new Winchester rifle at Fort Laramie 
 finances A.B. Clark in cattle partnership 
 Luke Voorhees buys Bullock Ranch hay for stage company --
$17.50 per ton 
 r. S. Van Tassell operated Cheyenne Lunber Yard in the Sixties 
 R.R. surveyor Effinger camps at Bordeaux 
 Showing more interest in society --
church, theatre, white women and wine 
 buys new $15 pistol, $30 diamond pin --
September 1880 : Little Moon hay drying up, blowing away --
stackers hard to get 
 Pratt & Ferris were sponsored by Marshall Field 
 M.E. Post buys herd of sheep at Fort Laramie 
 Kills lot of ducks at Little Moon --
Presents them to Collins and officers at Fory Laramie 
 Shipping cattle from Rock Creek 
 bob Waln buys three 7-yoke ox teams $1000 each 
 Fort Fetterman to Fort Laramie by Buckboard $10 --
Rock Creek to Fort Fetterman by stage $15 
 The Freund Brothers were skilled gunsmiths --
specialized in mounting and improving Sharp's actions 
 Bets against Garfield --
loses two $50 suits --
October 1880 : Haggling and fenagling, and a special trip to Omaha, over bids on Army hay 
 rustic Hotel and Post Trader Collins also in market for hay 
 Posey Ryan and Newcomb hauling bales from Little Moon 
 October winds and snow hamper Balinger operations 
 campaigning by mail for Representative M.E. Post 
 Sells Charley Wild six ox teams 
 Receives $3256 from Army on firewood contract 
 Buys $250 watch and chain --
pays $361.17 tax bill 
 How General Dodge named Cheyenne and Rawlins 
 Indian victims first to be buried in Cheyenne Cemetery --
November 1880 : tom haynes sells 4-mule team, wagon and harness for $700 
 All hands vote at Hi Kelly's, except the cook, Garfield elected. Close contest between Post and Swan 
 W.H. Hibbard built telegraph from Cheyenne to Black Hills --
sold Scrip to help finance construction 
 Little Moon is still a duck hunter's paradise 
 Several bull trains snow in, losing work cattle 
 Malcolm Campbell sends wife money to join him 
 Posey Ryan buys 6-mule team --
agrees to haul hay 
 Buys Paddleford's hay bottom opposite Little Moon for $400 
 Pratt & Ferris buy Little Moon for $5000 --
Half down, 12 percent interest on balance 
 Lets contract for 200 cords firewood for Fort Fetterman, $8 per cord --
December 1880 : Buys hay press, hay scales and four horses at government sale 
 Baling and hauling Little Moon hay to Fort Laramie 
 Rustic Hotell built by J.S. Collins 
 Starts on fateful journey --
return to home in Madison, Virginia for first time in thirteen years 
 Takes out $6,000 accident, $10,000 life insurance policy and carries $2,200 in cash on trip 
 Stops over in Chicago --
buys one-sixteenth interest in Wheeler Tunnel and Mining Co. of Central City, Colorado 
 Train jumps track --
no damage done 
 Three days in New York --
sees Hazel Kirk and Barrett in "Yorick's Love". Has some rather heavy "incidental" expenses 
 christmas shopping in Baltimore 
 buys $300 worth of groceries, crockery and dry goods 
 Finds everybody well at home --
but the old place dilapidated, old friends hard up and everything dull. v. 4. --
Part two : 1881 
 January, 1881 : Now thirteen years on the frontier 
 Bull whacking, Squaw Man and Indian War days are now over for John Hunton 
 See firl on street --
calls her his destiny --
a case of love at first sight if there ever was one 
 Finds state of delapidation in his Virginia homeland 
 Meets Miss Blanche Taylor at hop in the Old Temperance Hall 
 Old homes and old memories still linger in Madison, Virginia 
 The Hunton Hotel an ancient landmark 
 A dinner party at Genera
 J.L. Kemper's 
 Cave and Sparks start new steam sawmill 
 A coward with the ladies --
Too bashful to ask Blanche for date 
 Forty five acres of Hunton Virginia land bring $262.00 
 Some farm and home essentials of 1881 --
Februrary, 1881 : Escorts the Misses Kemper and Young to dance --
wishes it could have been Blanche instead 
 Feels like giving his rival a dynamite pill 
 A date at last --
has trouble talking --
heart gets in his mouth 
 Young ladies put on a "Snide" show --
but Blanche magnificent as The Goddess of Liberty 
 Destroys record of conversation at mysterious tea party 
 Once started makes fast progress --
proposes and is accepted 
 Nannie Clay saw Lee's surrender from perch in Cherry tree --
tells of social life on the Wyoming frontier 
 Looking for non-existent mines with Mr. Sparks 
 Gives $25 to Episcopal church --
March, 1881 : Blanche breaks engagement to Mr. Smoot --
but it wasn't easy 
 Does not tell Blanche about Lallee --
fears she would discard him with scorn 
 Small town gossips get in their licks 
 Asks Dr. Taylor for his daughter's hand --
the doctor says no 
 Blanche promises to wait, but he doubts it 
 Starts back to Wyoming --
brideless and sad 
 Sees Fanny Davenport in "Frou Frou" --
too lovesick to enjoy it 
 Resolves no to think so much about Blanche --
silly boy! 
 Union Pacific Railroad washed out near Fremont --
takes B. & M. via Lincoln 
 The Oelrich Brothers lived high, wide and handsome on the range 
 Lovers correspond daily --
exchange photos 
 Frank Browning gets summer job at $40 per month 
 Reads "A Mad Marriage" --
makes him think of Blanche 
 authorizes Gen. J.L. Kemper to buy Dr. Reeves' farm for $10,000 
 A $75 diamond ring for Blanche --
April 1881 : George Boswell starts cooking at Bordeaux 
 Attends meeting of stockmen in Cheyenne 
 Buys McCreary's mule team --
sells it to Hunter & Bergman for $833 
 Clay & Hunton low bidders on freight contract 
 Sells Little Bat Garnier three horses, harness and wagon 
 Rustic Hotel at Fort Laramie buys load of hay 
 Detailed bids on hay, wood and coal for Forts Fetterman and Laramie 
 Williams & Smith delinquent on Box Elder Ranch notes 
 Planning to build house for Blanche at Bordeaux 
 building fence around Platte meadows 
 John W. Ford was stage agent, telegraph operatot and U.S. Commissioner at FT. Laramie 
 Menea's Saddle & Harness Shop was a Cheyenne institution --
May 1881 : Shopping for mares at the TY --
quality good but priced too high 
 Blanche invites him to Rendezvous in Washington, D.C. 
 Takes along $1000 for expenses --
hopes to bring her back, but has misgivings 
 Orders lumber for new house --
Jake to make window frames for $5 each, door frames for $3.50 
 Pays guide $2.50 to show him the sights in Washington while waiting 
 Blanche arrives one day late --
he has a feeling somethin is wrong 
 Lovers fail to reach understanding --
have sad uncertain parting 
 Attends George Washington's Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, Virginia 
 Feels mighty low traveling back to Wyoming 
 doubts they will ever marry 
 Starts foreclosure proceedings against Williams & Smith 
 Colts break from pasture --
one badly wire cut 
 Pratt & Ferris finish paying for Little Moon --
June 1881 : Repossesses SO herd and other Box Elder property from Williams & Smith 
 Burning lime to build honey moon house at Bordeaux 
 Glafcke printed Wyoming's first law book --
some public officials of the day 
 Unsuccessful prospecting at "Blue Stone" 
 Starts construction on new house --
asks Blanche to let him come for her in July 
 Summary of Hunton's business operations at Bordeaux 
 Hires Jim Monroe to look after things at Box Elder Ranch 
 G.D. MacDougall remembers when Duncan Grant courted Mary Reagan 
 Buys fifty cords wood from Fred Foy 
 L.C. Bishop's first job was herding sheep for George Powell 
 Skew Johnson goes to Sweetwater for cattle 
 Fixes up old wagon for Little Bat Garnier to use hauling wood 
 Rough going for romance --
Blanche makes him jealous by corresponding with the "Blackguard" in Baltimore 
 Receives word his mother is blind 
 Clay & Hunton plan big freighting season --
but prospects not bright 
 Lem Smith & Son pay up Smith & Williams mortgage, regain Box Elder Ranch 
 Roundup time --
offers Webster $5 per head for all "LD" strays returned to pasture 
 Escorts Mrs. Charlton to theatre --
I.T. Raymond starring in "Frish" 
 Cheyenne Club bill for June $144.25 --
July 1881 : President Garfield assassinated --
Oelrich Bros. bring news to Bordeaux --
July 4th celebration at Fort Laramie called off 
 W.C. [Billy] Irvine as remembered by Mrs. John B. Kendrick and Russell Thorp 
 Drou[g]th settles over the land --
hay help hard to find 
 Lots of lime needed to build that new house at Bordeaux 
 Hi Kelly and Hunton do some price fixing on Government hay 
 Crawford drinking, work on house slows down --
Crawford sober, work speeds up 
 Many lost calves have been named after Mr. Maverick 
 Hail storms kills colts and calves --
flood follows 
 Tom Hunton returns from Virginia 
 Two Bar Ranch was scene of much Wyoming history 
 Big Celebration in Cheyenne --
sick in bed next day --
has tooth pulled 
 Rev. Cowhick carried bibles to the Black Hills 
 Blanche sends him a tobacco sack 
 All hands busy haying and bouse building at Bordeaux 
 A three way land deal with Kelly and Collins --
August 1881 : Mining excitement at Fort Laramie --
Copper strikes at the "Green Mountain Boy" and "Sunrise" claims 
 Burning more lime for new house at Bordeaux --
Jim Talbot doing the masonry work 
 Buys ten heifers and a bull from Swan for $375 
 Two loads of hay for Eagles Nest --
September 1881 : Rehmeyer take contract to cut Platte Meadows Hay for $2.50 per ton 
 Frank Browning gets a pay boost to $50 per month 
 Snow storm at Bordeaux September 6. 
 tom Hunton sells Fort Fetterman wood to George Powell 
 W.P. Noble was object of search 
 Grout walls of Bordeaux house completed --
Plastering starts --
an iron roof for the kitchen --
lets contract for the painting 
 T.A. Kent, Heck Reel and F.M. Phillips driving beef to Pine Bluffs 
 Mrs. F.M. Phillips gives Hunton a canary bird 
 Off to Virginia to be married 
 W.G. Bullock buys the bride a case of fine silver --
October 1881 : Dr. Taylor and family withdraw their objections --
welcome prospective son-in-law 
 Blanche Taylor and John Hunton married October 5 
 Honeymooning in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Niagara Falls and Chicago --
November 1881 : General Crook and John S. Collins call on the newlyweds 
 Doing nothing in Cheyenne gets tiresome 
 Buys furniture of Craig & Gardner --
and a $55 sewing machine 
 May improvements noted in Denver --
Mile High City pleases Blanche 
 McFarlane and McUlvane sell herd and ranch to E. Nagle 
 Bridegroom lets his bookkeeping slip --
December 1881 : Frank Browning quits --
gets $2250 pay check 
 Moves from Inter-Ocean Hotel to Railroad House --
rates $4 a day with board 
 Drives the Misses Maxwell, Mts. Wallace and Blanche to Hi Kelly's in Carriage 
 New ready at Bordeaux --
busy moving in furniture 
 Dick Mantel paid $100 --
leaves for England 
 Introduces Arthur Clarke at the Cheyenne Club 
 Some last minute Christmas shopping 
 Starts newyear with Blanche ill in Cheyenne 
 Readjustment problems facing both of them. v. 4. Part Three --
1882 : January 1882 : Start of a new era in more ways than one 
 A girl bride's auburn curl 
 Blanche under doctor's care in Cheyenne Hotel 
 buys 102 Oregon heifers from Hi Kelly for $2,000 
 Newlyweds leave for Bordeaux home --
Blanche with lots of flowers and a cook 
 Busy time cleaning house, moving in furniture, laying carpets, etc. 
 Tom Haynes and Billy irvine guests at first meal in new house 
 Cook Pritchett did not last long 
 Piano and servant girl arrive from Cheyenne 
 Ice harvest completed in four days 
 Blanche sick again --
Dr. Marston summoned from Fort Laramie --
arrive 4 A.M. --
February 1882 : Breaks hay press horse power all to pieces 
 A.B. Clark's sister visits Bordeaux --
takes first horseback ride 
 R.S. Van Tasse 
 driving beef to Cheyenne 
 Hauling hay to Bard's ranch and Eagles Nest 
 Starts large fencing project --
shows Bob Grant and Jim Lane where it will cross public domain 
 How big cattle men divided up the open range 
 G.D. MacDougal attended Mary Regan's school --
remembers when Duncan Grant started courting 
 to Cheyenne with Gen. Merritt --
Blanche and brother Tom follow 
 The dashing Dater brothers helped organize the Cheyenne club --
worked on first Wyoming brand book 
 Circulates petition for Bordeaux-Fetterman Mail route 
 Dr. Gray recommends medical treatment for Blanche --
March 1882 : A long month in Cheyenne with Blanche under doctor's care 
 Leavitt's Variety Show was a snide affair 
 Make model car axlw and wheel --
has it patented 
 Hauling tons of fence wire to Bordeaux 
 Heart disease annoying --
expects to die any day, but does not tell anyone 
 A.B. Clarke hiring men for roundup --
gives note and mortgage on cattle 
 Buys carriage of Wm Swan for $300 --
has new top put on buggy 
 Loans F.M. Phillips team and buggy to drive home from Cheyenne 
 Buys Chug Springs Ranch from B.W. Madill for $600 --
April 1882 : Stock Association meeting draws crowd from all parts of Territory 
 Bids with John Coad on hay for Fort Laramie 
 Posey Ryan hauls some good potatoes to Bordeaux 
 Somebody broke Blanche's fish bowl 
 Fencing in some 14,000acres of public domain 
 butcher Phillips comes to dinner --
buys "Nubbins" 
 Miss Clarke goes to Denver 
 tommy Hawk needs five tons of hay 
 Blanche considerably nore expensive than was Lallee --
May 1882 : Chugwater nearest telegraph station to Bordeaux 
 Annie Maxwell a visitor at Hunton Home 
 Wet Spring --
heavy snows and rains --
grass prospects good 
 E. Nagle and Heck Reel roundups near Bordeaux 
 Terrill Taylor arrives --
after a stopover in the Cheyenne calaboose 
 Fifth Cavalry camps at Bordeaux --
Gives a serenade 
 Dr. Bock operates on bull --
fee "exhorbitant" 
 Bargains with Bettelyoun to put up hay 
 Provines surveys John Owens' place and ditch for Tom Hunton's desert claim 
 Luke Voorhees moving stage station from Bordeaux to Chug Springs --
June 1882 : George Morgan has blooded cattle on Cheyenne 
 van Tassell drives vull herd from Cheyenne through Bordeaux 
 Spring roundup and colt breaking time 
 Finishes big pasture fence --
drives out all cattle --
starts cross fencing 
 Hi Kelly repairing Chugwater Bridge 
 Brands the Kelly calves "LD" 
 George Drake delivers stage co. hay at Fort Laramie 
 Sale of government horses at the old fort 
 Building stage company stables at Chug Springs 
 1882 Brand Book sold for $15 --
July 1882 : Wolves attack and injure four calves 
 Hauling hay to new Chug Springs Stage Station 
 Blanche fires Lucy Stong --
"Patsy" is new hired girl at Bordeaux 
 Hires ten "hands" in Cheyenne --
haying at Bordeaux starts July 13 
 Wilson Woods' Homestead became Fergie Mitchell's ranch 
 Frenchy Cazaubon was popular little peddler with a store on wheels 
 A.B. Clarke to run cattle for $37.50 per month 
 Buys raffle ticket on Gen. Merritt's shot gun 
 Upset about something --
does not say what 
 G. Bolln was pioneer merchant of Fort Fetterman and Douglas --
August 1882 : Haying completed at Bordeaux --
8-man crew moves to Platte Meadows 
 Hi Kelly family and Mrs. Maxwell visit at Bordeaux 
 Sturgis & Lane ranch house built of sod --
with plenty of loop holes to shoot through 
 Colts out of pasture --
somebody left the bars down 
 Hauling $400 worth of hay to Chug Springs Stage Station 
 Blanche guest of Capt. Woodson while Hunton hays on the Platte 
 Hill & Wilde agree to haul and stack 200 tons hay 
 Carpenter Charley Sears finishes barn at Bordeaux 
 Tom Hunton leaves for Virginia to wed Mora Evans 
 Has bad care of hay fever --
only the name not yet invented 
 Blanche sworn in as Bordeaux Postoffice Clerk --
takes desert land claim 
 Crawford and Terrill Taylor on a spree 
 Knight Templar uniform costs $70 --
whiskey $10 a gallon --
September 1882 : New letter box for Bordeaux Postoffice 
 Platte Meadow hay harvest completed --
baling starts 
 General Forsythe guest at Bordeaux 
 Wilson Woods given 25 percent discount on hay 
 Blanche attends Sunday school regularly --
John prefers hunting 
 Blacksmith Foss shoes horses at Bordeaux 
 Blanche meets Tom Hunton and bride Mora with carriage in Cheyenne 
 Pratt & Ferris building grout houses 
 Capt. Woodson, Green and Hunton bag 218 ducks 
 George and Tommy Hawk were stage station agents at Eagles Nest and Fort Laramie --
October 1882 : Teschemacher & deBillier's and Heck Reel's beef herds pass Bordeaux 
 Has property insured fo $18,000 by Kent & Arnold 
 Elected delegate from Chug Precinct to Democratic Convention 
 Dick Elgin killed in Fetterman Saloon by "Arkansas Red" Capp 
 Bob Walker rents winter pasture for $1 per head 
 Buys 106 heifers from Organ & Draper --
drives them from Cheyenne to Birdeaux 
 Oliver P. Goodwin bought Fagan's Road Ranch and Stage Station 
 Brands 101 cows bouught from Kelly --
also the Organ & Draper heifers 
 Madame Selig offered variety of hospitality at Nine Mile ranch 
 Stage driver Charles Griffin bought Calamity Jane's trunk 
 Isaac Bettelyoun fought Indians on the Laramie in 1867 --
November 1882 : Smelting Company buys hay at $20 per ton 
 Capitalist N.K. Fairbanks gave Wyoming ghost town its name 
 Hi Kelly and Voorhees beaten in election 
 Off for long visit in Madison, C.H., Virginia 
 Stopover in Missouri --
rain and mud but nice weather for St. Louis 
 Welcomed by friends and relatives --
but inactive life very boring 
 Blanche has good money month, plus a $300 ring --
and they traveled in style --
December 1882 : Local news and public sales in and around Madison, Virginia 
 Buys six hogs for $71 --
salts down 985 lbs. of pork 
 Dull Christmas --
except for the boys and negros 
 Blocks road change in court --
Gen. Kemper his attorney 
 Glad to start back to Wyoming 
 A land warrant from War of 1812 
 Buys wire from Coad at $20.50 per 1000 and hay press for $350 
 Debts total $30,000 at year's end --
cattle boom gathering momentum. v. 5. Part one --
1883 : Prelude --
January 1883 : Wyoming population 20,000 --
United States 50,000,000 
 Back to Wyoming from holiday vacation in Virginia 
 Prices ranch property to Hi Kelly for $110,000 
 Administrator for Charley Wild Estate --
J.W. Hammond and Colin Hunter his security --
T.A. Kent, Charley Coffey and Will Jeffrey appraisers 
 The 1884 Brand Book of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association 
 Brands and ranges of J.W. Hammond
 Hunter & Bergman
 C.F. Coffee
 E. Tillotson
 Post, Brown & Lawrence
 Warren Live Stock Co.
 The swans
 Organ & Phillips
 Whipple & Hay and Willie Whipple 
 Thos. J. Snow was brand inspector 
 Hires.