A pioneer who built the “largest Lima bean ranch in the world” owned the “most gorgeous thing of its kind in the world,” a Mexican pattern saddle that landed the top bid at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 6.
Born in Topsham, Maine, in 1826, Dixie W. Thompson started his career as a cabin boy and ended up in California in 1849. The following July, he unsuccessfully worked the gold fields of Marysville. He returned to San Francisco to work.
In 1852,
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