In cattlecrazy W.T., where brands were sacrosanct, it all started with a woman! The first registered cattle brand in Wyoming Territory was owned by Eliza A. Kuykendall, wife of Judge William L. Kuykendall of Cheyenne. It was a “rolling M” that later was transferred to the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and became the official mark for mavericks.
March 2015
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- Vanishing Train Robbers
- His Skin Lives On
- For the Love of Money
- Augustine Chacon’s Musical Escape
- Libbie Custer on the Big Screen
- More Than a Museum
- Never Was a “Cattle Kate”
- The Murder of Andrew Trew Blachly
- Endless Rides
- Rock Throwing Captain Harry Wheeler
- McLaurys Get the Short End of the Stick
- Orders of the Arizona Rangers
- Dark Starr
- Black Bart
- Cole Younger. Confederate Guerrilla. Outlaw. Christian.
- A Woman Branded Wyoming Territory
- Sam Sixkiller
- Bonanza Comes to Ponderosa Ranch
- Gateway to the Cascades
- How Hot was That Coffee?
- Cowboy Actor Ben Johnson
- A Shootout Over Eggs?
- The Switch?
- Every Decent Old West Restaurant Table Held….
- Jar Head!
- Lotta Crabtree and Her Famous Cigarillos
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Just How Many Buffalo Were There?
- “Get Out or Get Shot”
- An Iron Gas Pipe Stands Over the Grave of the Dalton Gang at Coffeyville, KS.
- The Poet Bandit
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma
- Exploring the Old Oregon Country
- The Moonshiner Who Got Away with Murder
- March 2015 Events
- The Last Sioux Warrior
- Surviving the Rapids
- 17 Places to Hang Your Hat in the West
- The Severed Heads Campaign
- The Other Lone Ranger’s Colt
- Buffalo Bill’s Deadly Acts
- “It’s My Obsession”
- What happened to Chuck Connors?
- Was “Arizona Charlie” Meadows real?
- Andy Thomas
- What made John Wesley Hardin such an effective gunfighter?
- Henry Larkin Abbot
- Who was the last Old West gunfighter?
- Did Wild Bill Hickok allow for trajectory in his 1865 duel?
- CRITERION AND MR. FORD
- Western Writers of America President Sherry Monahan Shares Her Love of Books
- Origins Of Western Tourism
- Wyatt Earp Reimagined
- Working Women Of The West
- Juan Bautista de Anza: Sonora’s Son of the Empire
- Rough Drafts 3/15
- CRITERION AND MR. FORD