Buffalo Bill is commonly considered the founding father of Cody, Wyoming. And while that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption, credit really should go to George Washington Thornton Beck. After all, it wasn’t long after the passage of the Carey Act of 1894, allowing private companies in arid states to create irrigation projects, that Beck came up with a plan to sell water to the ranchers, farmers and settlers he hoped to lure to a new town in the Bighorn Basin of northwestern Wyoming. When
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