A Champion of the Small Ranchers
Nate Champion became a martyr in the Johnson County War. For some residents of Johnson County, Wyoming, in the 1890s, Nate Champion had the perfect name. He was a champion of the rights of small ranchers in the area. But for others—the cattle barons—he was nothing but...
Kingman Kin
Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was traveling through Kingman in 1924-25 and he stayed at the Hotel Beale. When he went into the bar for a drink, he happened...
Truth Be Known
“When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.” —Charles Goodnight “Every civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” —Nicolas Gomez Davila “No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most...
A Trail Blazer
But Jesse Chisholm didn’t use it for cattle… The Chisholm Trail is one of the most important and famous of the paths used to drive cattle from Texas up to the railheads of Kansas. Ironically, the man who blazed the trail—Jesse Chisholm—didn’t use it for that purpose....
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