Offspring of a Percheron stud and a Mexican hot-blood mare, the big black colt born on the Frank Foss ranch of Southeastern Wyoming may have lacked in looks, but he made up for it in stamina.
He was three in 1899, when the Swan Land and Cattle Company bought the unbroken stallion. Swan cowboys on the Two Bar Ranch threw him to castrate and in the process bumped his head, breaking a bone in his nose, which was cut out by Two Bar Foreman Sam Moore. The accident and “surgery” left the young
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