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V. 1. 1873-75: March, 1873: Cheyenne's Eagle House burns ; Indians restless along the Chug [Chugwater] -- April, 1873: Ranchers on constant lookout for Indians ; White Clay mail carrier killed ; Bull train hauls 75,000 pounds freight per trip ; Rings for Lallee ; Gift wagons from Jules Ecoffee no account ; Echoes from the Modoc War ; Stage coach stalled, soldier freezes, in blizzard ; General Grant and family visit Cheyenne -- May, 1873: A loan from Hi Kelly ; Deep snow from Bear Springs to Cheyenne ; Cheyenne to Omaha by train, $31 ; The mystery of Little Mary ; Early oil discovery near Teapot Dome -- January, 1875: A blue financial outlook ; Lucky at cards ; trouble in Louisiana ; Sawing beef like ice at 51 below zero ; Government pays eight cents for meat ; Bids $1680 per annum on mail route from Medicine Bow to Ft. Fetterman -- February, 1875: History of Bordeaux ; The murder of Baptiste Ladeau ; Six Mile Ranch favorite spot for killings ; Cy Williams sells his life dearly ; Missouri Jim frosts his ears and gets a grubstake ; Jim Harwood, John Boyd go for blacksmith, return slightly inebriated ; Roundup in Goshen Hole ; Jim Hunton out all night looking for ponies ; Driving "Painted Horn" beeves to Ft. Fetterman ; Lallee's allowance -- March, 1875: 102 cow hides a heavy load, sell for $5.50 each in Cheyenne ; Gold excitement and trouble brewing in the Black Hills -- April, 1875: Pants for three brothers, $35 ; Butcher's wage, $50 per month ; Why 80-year-old bridge across Platte [River] is still sturdy ; Wins chairs in raffle, trades with Speed Stagner for rug ; A bad night at cards ; Butcher Fischer has the Quinzy [quinsy] ; Broken legs for Ward and Jim Lane ; "Numpa" [Nampa?] says Indians will fight for Black Hills ; An adventure with Lallee -- May, 1875 : A peace conference that failed ; Spring roundup ; Brooks sells out to Guiterman [Getermann] ; Charles E. Clay, Hunton's contemporary ; A military expedition -- June, 1875: Walker & Johnson gather 934 beeves ; Indians steal horses on Rock Creek and Laramie Plains ; Gathering wire near Old Fort Casper ; Cavalry unable to cross Platte, returns to Ft. Fetterman ; Horse racing and liquor ; Griffin's Ranch burned -- July, 1875: A master wagon maker ; Eleven bull teams on the road ; A meeting at the Natural Bridge ; Surveyor Hammond recovers stolen horse ; History of Bridger's ferry ; Mrs. W.G. Bullock, descendant of George Washington ; Lallee goes visiting ; Gen. [General] Crook passes north -- August, 1875: Telegraph to Fetterman down ; Indians steal Malcomb [Malcolm] Campbell's horses, kill old man ; Haying on Box Elder and the Chug ; Whitehead prospecting party see Indians, come to Hunton's ranch ; Exodus of officers from Fort Fetterman ; Making adobe brick ; Tom Hunton survives serious illness ; Indian Commission at Ft. Laramie -- September, 1875: Three steers for $100 ; Six weeks provisions for hay crew ; Jules Ecoffey robbed in Cheyenne ; Election at 3-Mile Ranch, Lallee votes too ; Lallee ill on LaPrele, Dr. Gibson attends her ; Indians ugly at Agency Council, kill man on Laramie, attack hay train at Bridger's Ferry, cavalry set out -- October, 1875 : Lallee recovers, return to Bordeaux ; Bullock and Phillips bondsmen for Hunton ; Bull calves, $38; steers, 3Ø pound ; A boil where it hurts, especially on horseback ; Swan buy cattle on LaBonte ; Freight business hits slump, bull trains go after poles ; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians visit Ft. [Fort] Fetterman ; Butchering and making sausage ; Powell, Smith, and Lord haul military baggage ; Two pioneers in their later years [Malcolm Campbell, Earnest Logan] -- November, 1875: a bargain to hold hay bottom ; Log floor for Malcomb Campbell's house ; 26 work cattle lost, train rumbles on with remaining 64 ; Women and trouble at Fisher's, "Cully" lands in guard house, Roe in hospital ; Bargains at quarter master's sale ; Jim Sanders brings gold out of Black Hills worth $19.45 an ounce ; New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie nears completion ; A telegram about Mary -- December, 1875: The story of Little Bat ; An elk hunt in 1875 -- Distance tables.;v. 1. 1873-'75 -- v. 2. 1876-'77 -- v. 3. 1878-'79 -- v. 4. 1880-'82 -- v. 5. 1883-'84.;V. 2. Part two, 1877 : January : General Crook, back from the wars, passes to Cheyenne ; Borrows hay press from Senator Kendrick's future father-in-law ; Frank Gruard [Grouard], The Sandwich islander who passed for a Sioux ; Horse herd on Spear Fish stolen by Indians ; Deputy Marshal Fisher after horse thief ; Heavy travel and troop movements through Bordeaux, Cross roads of the west ; A stabbing affray at John Owens' ranch ; Many Chinamen traveling to the Black Hills ; Seventeen passengerss on coach, including Deputy Fisher and prisoner McGinnis ; Luke Voorhees, Pioneer Stage operator, whose "Treasure Coach" carried fortunes in gold ; Circulating petition for Post Office at Bordeaux ; Frank Ecoffey on Cheyenne coach with two prisoners ; Indians steal Portugee Phillips' and Hi Kelly's horses, kill trapper on Cottonwood ; Charly Clay wintering his work cattle on running water ; Nagle & Swan offer $200 reward for stage robbers, dead or alive ; Last Indian depredations in the Laramie region ; Hay price at Fr. Fetterman $60 ton ; Daily coach planned to the "Hills", more stable room needed at Bordeaux -- February : Builds house on Tom Hunton's homestead ; Bailing hay on the Nick Janis' ranch ; General Miles wins victoory on the Yellowstone ; small pox at fort Laramie, one man dies ; Alvah W. Ayers finds Charly Clay's work cattle ; John LaMotte gets $40 a month job ; Another prophetic dream, jealous women fighting over him ; Domestic crisis, goes buggy riding with "E", Lallee leaves him ; Hay bales weighed 200 pounds, eight-wagon bull train hauls 34 tons to Ft. Fetterman ; Indian scare at Fagan's ranch ; Hay for Luke Voorhees' stage line at $32 ton ; Thirteen dollar hay brings $60 baled and delivered at Ft. Fetterman ; Britisher badgered at hay camp ; Train attacked on Black Hills Road, one killed, Ft. Laramie troops to rescue ; Horse stealing along the Laramie and Platte, other indian depredations ; Confides his trouble with Lallee to her brother, Little Bat ; Tells Squaw to go, suffers pangs of regret, would rather have seen her die ; W.G. Bullock disapproved for post trader appointment, his squaw record hurt him ; Velvet har, Brass heeled shoes and Merino hose for some lady -- March : Transportation magnates of pre-railroad days ; William Pye steals Jim's money and flees, the boys bring him back ; Eternal triangle, hears Lallee has been "toying" with Joe Morris ; Squaw camp on the Laramie ; Sends Lallee to reservation, but she does not stay there ; Building new stage station at Bordeaux ; F.M. Phillips throws his squaw away but keeps the children ; Anguish for nothers when red and white mates parted ; Buying cattle for Indian beef ; Eula Wulfjen [Mrs. John B. Kendrick] traveled the Texas trail in '73 at age of fifteen months ; Eighteen below zero in March ; Heavy stage coach travel through Bordeaux to Black Hills ; Indians surrendering horses and guns at Red Cloud Agency ; General Crook relaxes at Ft. Laramie ; Lallee had a sewing machine ; Road agents did not molest the lady ; Making shoes for work cattle ; The remarkable Johnny Owens, Twenty notches on his gun ; Tom Hunton first Postmaster at Bordeaux ; McQuade kills the Jacksons -- April : Lure of Black Hills' gold spreads over the nation ; Johnny Slaughter, stage driver, killed by road agents ; Col. Carpenter conducted tours for miners ; Hunton brothers qualify to handle mail ; John Boyd builds Homestead House ; Indians stealing horses on Bear Creek ; D.H. Russell buys a $60 bull ; An irrigation system at Bordeaux ; Capt. Van Vliet's stallion brings $150 ; Small pox victims left at Chugwatter by Army train ; Cold, wet journey from Bordeaux to Ft. Fetterman ; Capt. Pollock survived the Frontier Wars to die in fall down stairs -- May : Crazy Horse surrenders his warriors but not his spirit, sought death and found it ; John R. Smith turn the table, shoots bandit who came to rob him ; Beef bids for Forts Fetterman and Reno ; Andy Sullivan's bones found by roundup party, he was Governor Sinmpson's great uncle ; Ton Hunton sick, treated by doctor passing to the Hills ; Bordeaux Irrigation system completed ; James Monroe helped build Cow Hide Dam across the Chug ; Chinamen bring lauandry service to Black Hills' miners ; Roundup crew dissatisfied, maybe the cook was on a toot ; Posey Wilson sues, attaches hay money ; Billy Bacon and Jack Sanders [Saunders] rubbed each other out ; Little Bat finds "Bob " horse in Indian hands ; Lallee, Old Squaw and Little Bat visit Hi Kelly ; Political plum, Sutlers and post traders had monopoly at frontier posts ; Horse thieves go too far, steal Judge Hauphoff's stock ; Lallee again sent agency, again she does not stay ; Andy Carr recovers some of his horses from Indians ; John Owens buys $30 bull calf ; Thirty dollars a month job for Newcomb. v. 1. 1873-'75 -- v. 2. 1876-'77 -- v. 3. 1878-'79 -- v. 4. 1880-'82 -- v. 5. 1883-'84. V. 1. 1873-75: March, 1873: Cheyenne's Eagle House burns Indians restless along the Chug [Chugwater] -- April, 1873: Ranchers on constant lookout for Indians White Clay mail carrier killed Bull train hauls 75,000 pounds freight per trip Rings for Lallee Gift wagons from Jules Ecoffee no account Echoes from the Modoc War Stage coach stalled, soldier freezes, in blizzard General Grant and family visit Cheyenne -- May, 1873: A loan from Hi Kelly Deep snow from Bear Springs to Cheyenne Cheyenne to Omaha by train, $31 The mystery of Little Mary Early oil discovery near Teapot Dome -- January, 1875: A blue financial outlook Lucky at cards trouble in Louisiana Sawing beef like ice at 51 below zero Government pays eight cents for meat Bids $1680 per annum on mail route from Medicine Bow to Ft. Fetterman -- February, 1875: History of Bordeaux The murder of Baptiste Ladeau Six Mile Ranch favorite spot for killings Cy Williams sells his life dearly Missouri Jim frosts his ears and gets a grubstake Jim Harwood, John Boyd go for blacksmith, return slightly inebriated Roundup in Goshen Hole Jim Hunton out all night looking for ponies Driving "Painted Horn" beeves to Ft. Fetterman Lallee's allowance -- March, 1875: 102 cow hides a heavy load, sell for $5.50 each in Cheyenne Gold excitement and trouble brewing in the Black Hills -- April, 1875: Pants for three brothers, $35 Butcher's wage, $50 per month Why 80-year-old bridge across Platte [River] is still sturdy Wins chairs in raffle, trades with Speed Stagner for rug A bad night at cards Butcher Fischer has the Quinzy [quinsy] Broken legs for Ward and Jim Lane "Numpa" [Nampa?] says Indians will fight for Black Hills An adventure with Lallee -- May, 1875 : A peace conference that failed Spring roundup Brooks sells out to Guiterman [Getermann] Charles E. Clay, Hunton's contemporary A military expedition -- June, 1875: Walker & Johnson gather 934 beeves Indians steal horses on Rock Creek and Laramie Plains Gathering wire near Old Fort Casper Cavalry unable to cross Platte, returns to Ft. Fetterman Horse racing and liquor Griffin's Ranch burned -- July, 1875: A master wagon maker Eleven bull teams on the road A meeting at the Natural Bridge Surveyor Hammond recovers stolen horse History of Bridger's ferry Mrs. W.G. Bullock, descendant of George Washington Lallee goes visiting Gen. [General] Crook passes north -- August, 1875: Telegraph to Fetterman down Indians steal Malcomb [Malcolm] Campbell's horses, kill old man Haying on Box Elder and the Chug Whitehead prospecting party see Indians, come to Hunton's ranch Exodus of officers from Fort Fetterman Making adobe brick Tom Hunton survives serious illness Indian Commission at Ft. Laramie -- September, 1875: Three steers for $100 Six weeks provisions for hay crew Jules Ecoffey robbed in Cheyenne Election at 3-Mile Ranch, Lallee votes too Lallee ill on LaPrele, Dr. Gibson attends her Indians ugly at Agency Council, kill man on Laramie, attack hay train at Bridger's Ferry, cavalry set out -- October, 1875 : Lallee recovers, return to Bordeaux Bullock and Phillips bondsmen for Hunton Bull calves, $38 steers, 3Ø pound A boil where it hurts, especially on horseback Swan buy cattle on LaBonte Freight business hits slump, bull trains go after poles Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians visit Ft. [Fort] Fetterman Butchering and making sausage Powell, Smith, and Lord haul military baggage Two pioneers in their later years [Malcolm Campbell, Earnest Logan] -- November, 1875: a bargain to hold hay bottom Log floor for Malcomb Campbell's house 26 work cattle lost, train rumbles on with remaining 64 Women and trouble at Fisher's, "Cully" lands in guard house, Roe in hospital Bargains at quarter master's sale Jim Sanders brings gold out of Black Hills worth $19.45 an ounce New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie nears completion A telegram about Mary -- December, 1875: The story of Little Bat An elk hunt in 1875 -- Distance tables. V. 2.: Introduction: an after word: Part One, 1876 : January : A fancy note-- interest 2% per month going wages-- five to forty cents per hour, fifty cents to $4.00 a day Population of Wyoming 9,118 of New York City, 926,341 Long Bill Dailey's brother ran the Rocky Mountain News congressman Steel pressured for Platte Bridge appropriation Gold rush to Black Hills becomes frenzy -- Indian resentment at invasion mounts Sports event at Fort Fetterman -- baiting captured coyote with dogs Fifty tons hay at $45 per ton Capt. Laubenfels dismissed -- Lts. Luhn Quinn and Babbs promoted to captains Stage line planned to Black Hills, Hundreds outfit for prospecting. Cheyenne Hotels overflow -- Guests sleep on floors and billiard tables Sitting Bull takes to war path -- Miners clamor for extermination of the Sioux Nath Williams abandons bull train on LaBonte Hauphoff's Hotel at Fort Laramie -- February : Mr. Swan overnight guest at Bordeaux Jim Hunton takes five-wagon hay train to Fort Fetterman First stage leaves Cheyenne for Black Hills -- a five day trip Colin Hunter supplies troops with sixty beeves -- Price going up War with the Sioux called inevitable -- newspapers beat drums for action Steady stream of miners pass Bordeaux daily, headed for "The Hills" Indians raiding on Cottonwood Creek General Crook readies expedition at Fort Fetterman -- foresees "unusually arduous" campaign with green troops Cavalry moving North exhausts Bordeaux hay supply -- March : Hunton dreams of fighting and killing on eve of war Crook's expedition leaves Fort Fetterman on disasterous [disastrous] campaign Black Hills' gold brings Cheyenne business boom Pioneer road map and transportation costs to "The Hills" Business also booming at Bordeaux Persimmon Bill Chambers kills Sgt. Sullivan Ox train snowed in on Elk Horn -- short of rations -- Butcher Johnson & Walker beef Custer City gets steam saw mill by bull train, has forty houses New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie opened to travel Hay soars to $60 ton, corn $3.50 per hundred Pat Corbliss coughs up stolen money when hanged a little George McMillan loses his watch at cards Portugee Phillips has popular road ranch on the Chug Crazy Horse wins first round -- sends Crook reeling back to Fetterman -- Officers look for scapegoats -- soldiers get drunk -- April : Heck Reel's bull train snowed in on Horse Shoe Heavy traffic through Bordeaux to Black Hills George Cross remembered Lallee as good cook, fine looking woman who spoke French well, thought Little Mary was her daughter Bordeaux Road House gets a new dirt roof Stuttering Brown, stage line superintendent, killed near Hat Creek Station George Powell buys silver watch McMillan lost at cards for $75 -- May : Malcomb Campbell leaves Ft. Fetterman Hospital Hunton & Kipp low bidders on Fetterman beef -- 10C hoof, 11c block James Hunton killed by Indians -- "buried Jim" -- and a brother's blind rage Panic among travelers to Black Hills as Indian killings mount Sioux tribes leave the reservations -- join for battle in the north Stage driver Clark killed in ambush set for General Crook War correspondents father and organize in Cheyenne A poor time to lose your gun Col. [colonel] Royal's command marches to join Crook -- camps at Bordeaux Ferrying army across the swollen Platte no easy task Indians thick between Ft. Laramie and the Chug -- settlers appeal for arms -- territorial arsenal depleted Last minute efforts for peace fail Crook's second expedition leaves Ft. Fetterman 2:00 p.m. May 29. V. 2. Part two, 1877 : January : General Crook, back from the wars, passes to Cheyenne Borrows hay press from Senator Kendrick's future father-in-law Frank Gruard [Grouard], The Sandwich islander who passed for a Sioux Horse herd on Spear Fish stolen by Indians Deputy Marshal Fisher after horse thief Heavy travel and troop movements through Bordeaux, Cross roads of the west A stabbing affray at John Owens' ranch Many Chinamen traveling to the Black Hills Seventeen passengerss on coach, including Deputy Fisher and prisoner McGinnis Luke Voorhees, Pioneer Stage operator, whose "Treasure Coach" carried fortunes in gold Circulating petition for Post Office at Bordeaux Frank Ecoffey on Cheyenne coach with two prisoners Indians steal Portugee Phillips' and Hi Kelly's horses, kill trapper on Cottonwood Charly Clay wintering his work cattle on running water Nagle & Swan offer $200 reward for stage robbers, dead or alive Last Indian depredations in the Laramie region Hay price at Fr. Fetterman $60 ton Daily coach planned to the "Hills", more stable room needed at Bordeaux -- February : Builds house on Tom Hunton's homestead Bailing hay on the Nick Janis' ranch General Miles wins victoory on the Yellowstone small pox at fort Laramie, one man dies Alvah W. Ayers finds Charly Clay's work cattle John LaMotte gets $40 a month job Another prophetic dream, jealous women fighting over him Domestic crisis, goes buggy riding with "E", Lallee leaves him Hay bales weighed 200 pounds, eight-wagon bull train hauls 34 tons to Ft. Fetterman Indian scare at Fagan's ranch Hay for Luke Voorhees' stage line at $32 ton Thirteen dollar hay brings $60 baled and delivered at Ft. Fetterman Britisher badgered at hay camp Train attacked on Black Hills Road, one killed, Ft. Laramie troops to rescue Horse stealing along the Laramie and Platte, other indian depredations Confides his trouble with Lallee to her brother, Little Bat Tells Squaw to go, suffers pangs of regret, would rather have seen her die W.G. Bullock disapproved for post trader appointment, his squaw record hurt him Velvet har, Brass heeled shoes and Merino hose for some lady -- March : Transportation magnates of pre-railroad days William Pye steals Jim's money and flees, the boys bring him back Eternal triangle, hears Lallee has been "toying" with Joe Morris Squaw camp on the Laramie Sends Lallee to reservation, but she does not stay there Building new stage station at Bordeaux F.M. Phillips throws his squaw away but keeps the children Anguish for nothers when red and white mates parted Buying cattle for Indian beef Eula Wulfjen [Mrs. John B. Kendrick] traveled the Texas trail in '73 at age of fifteen months Eighteen below zero in March Heavy stage coach travel through Bordeaux to Black Hills Indians surrendering horses and guns at Red Cloud Agency General Crook relaxes at Ft. Laramie Lallee had a sewing machine Road agents did not molest the lady Making shoes for work cattle The remarkable Johnny Owens, Twenty notches on his gun Tom Hunton first Postmaster at Bordeaux McQuade kills the Jacksons -- April : Lure of Black Hills' gold spreads over the nation Johnny Slaughter, stage driver, killed by road agents Col. Carpenter conducted tours for miners Hunton brothers qualify to handle mail John Boyd builds Homestead House Indians stealing horses on Bear Creek D.H. Russell buys a $60 bull An irrigation system at Bordeaux Capt. Van Vliet's stallion brings $150 Small pox victims left at Chugwatter by Army train Cold, wet journey from Bordeaux to Ft. Fetterman Capt. Pollock survived the Frontier Wars to die in fall down stairs -- May : Crazy Horse surrenders his warriors but not his spirit, sought death and found it John R. Smith turn the table, shoots bandit who came to rob him Beef bids for Forts Fetterman and Reno Andy Sullivan's bones found by roundup party, he was Governor Sinmpson's great uncle Ton Hunton sick, treated by doctor passing to the Hills Bordeaux Irrigation system completed James Monroe helped build Cow Hide Dam across the Chug Chinamen bring lauandry service to Black Hills' miners Roundup crew dissatisfied, maybe the cook was on a toot Posey Wilson sues, attaches hay money Billy Bacon and Jack Sanders [Saunders] rubbed each other out Little Bat finds "Bob " horse in Indian hands Lallee, Old Squaw and Little Bat visit Hi Kelly Political plum, Sutlers and post traders had monopoly at frontier posts Horse thieves go too far, steal Judge Hauphoff's stock Lallee again sent agency, again she does not stay Andy Carr recovers some of his horses from Indians John Owens buys $30 bull calf Thirty dollars a month job for Newcomb. v. 2 1877 [cont.] June : Gathering cattle with lower roundup from Sidney, Nebraska to Ft. Laramie The Janis boys, Wiulliam and Pete, killed by Richard [Reshaw] brothers in Christmas brawl Awarded contracts on hay for Ft. Reno, hay and beef for Ft. Fetterman Charley Mathews builds on Platte hay bottom opposite old Indian agency Tax collector Provines makes his rounds Storm washes out bridges on Chug and Hunton Creeks Did you ever see a perfect rainbow in the moonlight? Lallee leaves again, takes bed and clothing with her The "S O" brand used on Wyoming's first herd of beef cattle Agrees to deliver all hay within forty mile radius to Ft. Reno Three stage robberies in week, loot totals $20,000, and the road agents also had their litttle joke Mrs. Bill Waln was a hardy pioneer mother -- July : Extra hay for Fort Reno at $65 ton Who fenced in the Red Bluffs hay bottom Dave Cottier gets hay hauling job at Reno Herman Haas a skilled workman, ox yokes and bows his specialty Buys Colin Hunter's bull outfit, 19 yoke cattle and 4 wagons Old Mr. Clay, of Virginia, visits W.G. Bullock Posey Ryan sub-contraccts Fr. Reno hay, had stormy life, peaceful death Directing far-flung hay and beef operations from sick bed Medical services came high in 1877, too. Adolph Cuny killed by Clark Pelton at Six Mile ranch Gets well fast when Newcomb starts cooking Financed by First Bank of Omaha -- August : How Caspser got her start Moves cattle herd to Box Elder Brown & Yates teamster killed, wagon master wounded, by Indians Hunting hay and game across northern half of Wyoming Little Bat discovers new hay meadows southeast of Lake DeSmet Relaxing at Fort Fetterman after strenuous journey Hears report of Brigham Young's death Wilderness hay party buys army provisions -- September : Hunton herd established on Box Elder Stuart moves his cattle east Accidental suicide at Fr. Fetterman hog ranch Maj. Woolcott's cattle destroy hay at mouth of Deer Creek Business and pleasusre trip to Omaha and Chicago, with Gen. Crook for traveling companion Theatre offerings, Booth in "Brutus" at McVickers Barrett in "Richard the Third" at Hooleys Many new things seen at the fair Carriage Tour of the city, and an eye full of Chicago night life Union Pacific Train robbed at Big Springs, Nebraska, Loot $70,000 in cash Swan Cattle empire getting a start F.M. Phillips weds Miss Miller, opera singer Governor Thayer's clemency sought for Dan Titus Hi Kelly building new brick house Indian gathering at Big Bat Pourier's Smith buys Kent's cattle, $20 for cows, $30 for steers New hay press cost $840 at Chicago Omaha Bank advances $4765 on voucher for 148 tons hay -- October : Cattle drive from Bordeaux to Fetterman, George Drake in charge, Biilly Bacon and Wm. Hinson helpers Hay hands dissatisfied, no pay, live on rations borrowed from Army Hay contract completed, Hunton shells out $4000, everybody happy New hay press arrives from Chicago, works okay Another trip to Omaha, gets $10,500 advance on hay vouchers for $12,000 Buys tombstone for Jim Hunton's grave Contracts to bridge Chugwater Creek for $350, Mr. Smith hews the timbers Brands work oxen "L D" -- November : How Babcock happened to take up stage robbing Little Bat Garnier sells his mules for $375 Lt. Chase stops at Bordeaux with captured road agents, collects $400 reward Five hundred dollar check to Wm. J. Cave carefully preserved Business and banking memoranda No diary for December, 1877. V. 3, Part one, 1878 : January, 1878 : Rutherford B. Hays was 19th president of the United States John R. Smith comes collecting for hay A sixty mile horseback ride through deep snow Loafing in Cheyenne, "The magic city " was "Bad business" getting repairs for machinery no simple matter How sheriff Carr delivered the Poll books Names of a hay baling crew at F.M. Phillip's ranch Railroad subsidy bonds carry, the squaws voted too Wyoming was first state to extend franchise to women, one reason Family reunion at Little Bat Garnier's A bond that was hard to break Pioneer woman recalls poignant episode with Lallee Edwin C. Smith, summary of his career Early brands of Tom Sun, O.P. Johnson, Sam Foley and Jim Cantling Bull team freight rates changed with the seasons How they measured hay stacks in 1878 -- February, 1878 : Tom Mathews tattles on L.P. Justy, reports bad condition at Ft. Fetterman Petition for bridge actoss the Chug sent to county commissioners Lallee's horse, stolen by Indians in 1876, sighted on Horse Shoe Creek Blacksmith George Levers burns up posts and poles, gets fired Brands recorded in Laramie City February hunt stopped by snow and storm Black Coal killed in Arapahoe tribal row Leg broken in runaway, lies helpless in blizzard until midnight Long siege in Fort Fetterman Hospital follows accident George Powell get wood contract at $7 per cord -- March 1878 : Broken leg slow to heal and painful Terrific five-day blizzard strikes March 8 Mail sent from Ft. Fetterman by pack horses, none received for ten days Recurring nightmare prevents sleep, dreams his heart stops Many dead cattle reported in storm's wake Lt. King recaptures Parker's stolen mules Twenty-five years later soldier-novelist Charles King writes nostalgic letter George Powell and Maggie Scogille marry Fort Fetterman stable collapses Thirty-five days in hospital, Bill $41 board $50, nurse $13 -- April 1878 : Tom Reed was member of Persimmon Bill Chamber's outlaw band Shorty Ezelle represents Hunton on Spring roundup Big Bat Pourier pays visit to Bordeaux Freight rates 85 cents per hundred from Cheyenne to Bordeaux, via bull train William Hanson, discharged for drunkenness, steals pistol and leaves Wulfjen family and Colin Hunter dinner Guests at Bordeaux "Numpa" comes, takes squaws to Laramie River Bill Waln hauls 14,000 pounds freight to Fetterman with ox team Tom Hunton buys a $20 watch Lallee married Frank Gruard, Crook's half Hawaiian scout, in later years -- May, 1878 : Railroad survey party working near Bordeaux Roundup brings 2500 cattle from Goshens Hole Crawford poisons self by accident at Johnny Owens' ranch Robert Fryer, poet-blacksmith, has a sick spell Beef bids for Fort McKinney, $7.48 per hundred on block, $7.10 on hoof Builds raft-ferry across Box Elder Creek, but it does not work Charley Wiley shot and killed by Charly Moore pay day at Fort Fetterman, recruits and "rounduppers" arrive Roundup working both sides of the Platte Inspecting new road from Rock Creek to Fetterman Bill Bullock [Halfbreed] befriended in Cheyenne, he tooured Eutope with Buffalo Bill Cody Heavy troop movements North, officers dine at Bordeaux Lallee ill, objects to medicine, doped with castor oil, tincture of opium and quinine regardless, recovers To Omaha for bidding on government contracts Decoration Day card game with officers and friends Tim Dyer's "Button" of Black Hill's gold valued at $7,400 -- June, 1878 : Seeing sights in Omaha with Yates and Noble Buys three mowing machines of Herman Haas March blizzard of 1878 was worst ever. How Freighter Smalley saved his mules, Francis E. Warren traveled on foot when horses and sleds failed Drift south of Cheyenne was mile wide, 18 feet deep Hunton's hay crews organized at Bordeaux, Forts Fetterman, Reno and McKinney E. Tillotson buys Joe Taylor's herd Ft. McKinney moved to Clear Creek, Hay contract relet Governor Thayer carries first mail over new Rock Creek-Fetterman Road Buys new $16 pistol and $7.50 worth of ammunition Tax valuations on livestock and equipment in 1878 -- July 1878 : Crazy Woman Creek, It's place in Wyoming history Hay prospects look ppr, bids too high on McKinney contract Little Bat finds lots of hay near Lake DeSmet, too late to save contract Thomas J. Foster was Johanson County's first permanent settler Loses McKinney contract, sells haying outfit and supplies to Snyder Who killed Ed Hewitt? Gen. Merritt and family camp at Brown Springs Ft. Fetterman declared off limits to Scott Murray Finds Wolcott cutting Fetterman reservation hay Carey's herd arrives on Box Elder Joseph M. Carey's remarkable political career Thomas Edison in Wyoming to study sun's eclipse, gets idea which lights up the world -- August 1878 : Billy Bacon breaks leg at Bordeaux, Jim Monroe takes him to Fr. Laramie Luke Murrin's expedition to Black Hills blocked by President Grant Traveling dentist Barns visits Bordeaux, borrows silvertailed mare for ride to Cheyenne Jim Berry robbed stage coaches and trains, maybe as a side line Tar-She-Nah-Ze and Lallee go to Laramie River, Lallee returns ill, Dr. Joseph called Branson passes with Texas cattle, He and Clay buy bulls, three for $100 Jim Shaw drove cattle up the Texas trail in 1878 Newsman Bronson came west with Nervous Breakdown following Henry Ward Beecher trial Billy Irvine and Tom Branson fought the "Battle of the cook stove" "The hand" again visits Bordeaux Suffering with "Nervous Head", brain dull and stupid, thinks it is Mountain Fever Butter thirty cents a pound, dentist bill $23 and Dr. Joseph gets $50 for attending Lallee -- September 1878 : Fried chicken for Sunday dinner at Bordeaux Hi Kelly buys Jim Lane's horses, Hunton take 25 head Tom Swan's herd passes Bordeaux Johnny Gordon, Road Ranch proprietor at Uva. called Father of Wheatland irrigation Gordon got a stormy welcome to Wyoming, found refuge with Billy Bacon and later bought him out Wattling calves on the nose at Box Elder roundup Promises Governor Thayer to haul 75,000 pounds of freight Drives 65 miles from Horseshoe to Bordeaux in day Little Bat and sister Lallee visit Cheyenne Fred Schwartz had Road Ranch-Stage station on Lodgepole Creek Mrs. Schwartz loses unborn baby fleeing from drunken cowboys Their daughter, Minna Schwatrz, chorus girl in original "Prince of Pilsen" cast, marries columnist Franklin P. Adams How Russell Thorp became a match-maker Cold Springs "Treasure Coach" stage robbery, a case of cold blooded murder W.G. Bullock attends political meeting at Hi Kelly's A nine thousand dollar month for Hunton, but he spent $8,000 -- October 1878 : Hostile Cheyenne Indians cross R.R. between Cheyenne and Laramie City Jim Bellamy is shotgun man on Union Pacific Railroad Horseshoe Creek battle as told by John R. Smith Bullock's squaw and Mexican find stolen horses at Rock Creek Pease nominated for congress by Democrats at Rawlins convention Bull train leaves Rock Creek for Fetterman with 40 tons of sacked corn J.W. Downey chosen Republican Congressional candidate at Cheyenne Wyoming cattlemen shipping from Sidney, Nebraska Tom Hunton and Dan Titus kill mountain sheep near Bordeaux Zack Thomasson range manager for Swan Company, salary $3600 a year Rogers surveying land along Chugwater Creek Lallee and Hunton go traveling, "noon" at Gordon's, spend night at Tobe Miller's on Cottonwood Six thousand dollar month for Hunton, expenditures $5000 -- November, 1878 : Old timers electioneering, Hunton does not vote Six Mile Hog ranch robbed, Mail held up on Bozeman Trail and Jim Berry's mysterious absence Captain Coats sells chickens on the side Tom Maxwell a suicide at Dyer's Hotel George Via sells hay at $8 per ton Troop movements to and from Fort Fetterman The James boys had outlaw headquarters on Little Goose Creek Poss Comitatus restrictions hinder troops in preventing mail robbery More details about the "Battle of Horseshoe Creek " -- December, 1878 : Moves milk ranch to Box Elder, turns shops over to Robert Fryer Parks freight wagons for Winter, turns work cattle out to graze, pays off "Train hands" From Bordeaux to Cheyenne, A day's drive with a good team Christmas is "Absolute holiday" at Bordeaux, Billy Bacon and wife call Sam Groves has a lot of wages coming How Bullwhacker Kellogg helped build Wyoming Noel Seminole gets $75 for squatter's right to a good ranch A $40,000 year for Hunton, of which maybe $1,000 was profit Bull train freight rates from Rock Creek to Fts. Fetterman and McKinney. v. 3. 1878-'79, Part two- 1879 : January, 1879 : New models every year no essential Beef bids for the military, a comparison of the "price spread" then and now Convinced he has heart disease, half century of active living ahead Ed Chaplain hitch hikes bull train ride in zero weather Cheyenne Indians massacred at Fort Robinson Lallee reports Little Bat's "jaw bone amputated", he make quick recovery Curly Coleman buys hay for Six Mile Ranch Fifth Cavalry camps at Chug Springs, consumes 6,900 pounds hay Builds new shops at Box Elder Ranch Hard month on stock, many work and beef cattle dead on the range -- February, 1879 : Maybe there were two Jim Berrys, one an outlaw, one a builder Little Bat hauling logs for bridge Sawing lumber at Fort Fetterman Dan Titus fails to please as blacksmith A Spring bath and clean clothes Overhauling freight wagons at Box Elder shops Tries out coal from Lacey's mine, Frank Lacey arrested George Powell buys Heck Reel's Freight outfit Range cattle near starvation, none fit for beef All hands sick, sounds like the flu Building house at Box Elder's headquarters -- March, 1879 : Bags white deer on hunt Maj. Mason assumes FT. Fetterman command Burning charcoal for Army at 30 cents a bushel Finds ten dead cattle on Box Elder Mail contractor blows up, government takes over Maj. Frank Wolcott conceives the Johnson County War Grand view of Big Horns, Pumpkin Buttes and Powder River Range from Pole camp on Deer Creek -- April, 1879 : George Drake employed by stage company Capt. Powell defeated Red Cloud in "Wagon box fight " Johnny Owens trades ranch on Chug for 75 tons of hay and 15 Texas steers Buys eight freight wagons of Herman Haas To Omaha for Government contract letting Five bandits really cleaned out W.P. Noble's cow camp Henry Wagner was Laramie City's first dry goods merchant Bids on hay, wood and charcoal for Forts Laramie, Fetterman and McKinney Hogerson twins born at Fort Fetterman, new experience for both mother and doctor, but everyone helped four horses for $272 at Government sale Beef bids for Forts Robinson, Laramie, Fetterman and McKinney Ninety-five dollars buys a set of harness -- May, 1879 : Russell Thorp had fine horses, summary of his career Frewen Brothers built a castle on Powder River, but the Buffalo's Skull outlasted it. Many outfits out on roundup Fetterman commander approves herding cattle off hay meadows, easier said than done Gorge McMillan offered $6500 for 1000 cords wood delivered at Fort Fetterman Hunton's roundup crew: tom Hunton, Jim Berry and Bill Waln, with Bob Waln cook and chuck wagon skinner Gathering work cattle, "necking" young steer, overhauling wagons, bull whackers arrive Tax valuations on cattle in 1879 -- June 1879 : Roundup swims herd across Platte River Lallee and sister visit their brother, Little Bat Necks 37 new work oxen -- sells 10 to McMillan, 6 to Waln Bull train rolls from Fetterman to Rock Creek for 175,000 pound cargo Sord & Smith sell ox train -- 100 cattle, 15 wagons for $5,000 How Hat Creek Station got located on the wrong creek Bull train makes 20 miles in day -- 6 tons grain to each team at creek Mrs. W.G. Bullock ill in cheyenne Hot spell at Bordeaux -- 99 degrees in house, 118 in sun Large panther sighted on Horse Shoe Creek Lind gathers 1600 "CY" cattle on Box Elder Extra bulls and chains help freight train cross the Platte Boots $9, Trotting Assn. $25, subscription to Cheyenne Leader $10 -- July 1879 : Hay harvest on Box Elder completed in one week Thermometer 100 in shade, 130 in sun at Fort Fetterman Buys lame cattle from Taylor, 26 head for $275 fort Fetterman orders 150 tons baled hay Freighter handly taken from bull train to Fetterman Hospital George McMillan hauling firewood to Fetterman Controversy with Wolcott over Deer Creek hay -- Fetterman commander refuses to intervene Dan Titus loses his mules Mrs. W.G. Bullock not expected to live Tooth doctor's bill $105 -- August 1879 : Lum Waln charged $10 for passengers, 5c pound for freight, from Cheyenne to the Black Hills All freight wagons on the road -- eight teams haul 30 tons hay from Deer Creek to Fetterman Thayer pays $2000 freight bill Mrs. W.G. Bullock dies in Cheyenne -- husband accompanies body to Lynchburg, Virginia John Denny drove stage for a long time High employment turnover among bull whackers colin Hunter sells bull team, six work cattle and wagon, for $200 "Hand" and squaw visit three days at Bordeaux Bull train off to bad start -- one wagon breaks down, another upsets at Chug Sprpings and night herder loses cattle I.C. Whipple active in Pioneer Chamber of Commerce Gold button from Black Hills valued at $7,400 Bob Walker one of first permanent settlers on Horseshoe Creek Rumor that Colin Hunter has sold out to Swan Skunk bites him on top of head Dave Lord hired to run bull train, 14 wagons and 98 cattle for $75 month Trailing beeves from Fetterman to R.R. at Pine Bluffs -- twelve day trip Wolcott's herd of 5000 passes Box Elder Robert Fryer's Blacksmith and Wagon shop a busy place Shirt and vest cost $6, watch $12 and trunk $11 Francis E. Warren became senior member of U.S. Senate -- September 1879 : Paid for 378 cords wood, 118 tons hay -- cow hides bring 8 1/2 cents pound Big Bat Pourier and family Bordeaux visitors five-team bull train hauls 35 tons baled hay Bordeaux to Cheyenne a day's drive for good team Attend Masonic Lodge for first time in twelve years Shipping cattle from Pine Bluffs Why Col. Pratt call Cheyenne Culb member "Herefords" Feris-Haggerty mine in Carbon County sells for million dollars Steers $3.20 per hundred in Council Bluffs $3.90 at chicago -- weigh 1200 to 1400 pounds See "Pinafore" in Chicago -- decides once is enough Henry and Will Swan pioneered cattle raising in Saratoga Valley-Headquarters at Ft. Steele, Brand "L7" Gets hay press repairs from