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Hunton, John, 1839-1928, author.

John Hunton’s diary

Lingle, Wyo. : Guide-Review, ©1956-

6 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm.

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Flannery, L. G., 1894-1964, editor.

Flannery, L. G., Mrs., editor.

Vols. covering the years 1873-1882, compiled and edited by L.G.(Pat) Flannery, the years from 1883 on, prepared by Mr. Flannery.

Vols. 1-5 limited to 1500 copies. Stiff wraps in brown suade with silver lettering on cover. 15cm.

Vol. 6 published Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark. In brown cloth with silver lettering. 22cm.

v. 1. 1873-75. -- v. 2. 1876-’77. -- v. 3. 1878-’79. -- v. 4. 1880-’81-82. v. 5. 1883-’84. -- v. 6. 1885-1889

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 ; more

v. 4. 1880-’81-82 : Part one : Prelude : Ah-ho-appa, daughter of Shan-tag-alisk - Legend of Fallen Leaf -- January 1880 : Starts New Year convalescing in Cheyenne hotel ; Dickering with Smith Brothers and A. V. Larimer on sale of herd ; Cheyenne elects city officials ; Tom Hunton attends dance on Laramie River, returns home next day ; Railroader Woods shown country from Swan’s on Sybille Creek north to Irvine’s Ranch ; Oxen die on January bull-train journey ; Hotel bill $47.25, doctor’s fee $29 during three weeks sick spell -- February 1990 : Jim Lane was ”Buffy Boss” of Searight Brothers range ; F. M. Phillips sells herd to Warner for $19,800 ; Bob Hamilton and others arrested, charged with stealing Army mules ; Fred St. Dennis had a good start, tragic end ; Reaches Bard’s ranch through worst storm ever experienced ; buys young stallion ”Ethan Allen” for $450 ; J. C. Clark says C. M. & P. railroad will be built in Spring ; Hunton promised pass on all Union Pacific trains ; Titus and Monroe haul 80 tons hay from Bullock Place to Fort Laramie ; Building new stabel at Bordeaux ; Skew Johnson passes with a lady ; Sliding scale job for Frank Browning -- March 1880 : Dan Titus building wardrobe for W. G. Bullock ; Hi Kelly and Hunton guests at Fort Laramie’s Rustic Hotel ; Tobe Miller sells his herd and Patton his ranch ; Mining boom between Fort Laramie and Running Water ; Rich strikes of gold and silver reported - prospectors flock in ; Heck Rell, Fred Schwartz, Skew Johnson and Hunton among first to file claims ; Great Western Mining and Milling company operated at Silver Cliff ; O. J. Demmon ran Silver Springs Road Ranch, John Montgomery one at government farm and Jack Madden the stage station at Running Water ; Another heart attack follows all the mining excitement ; Provines surveys Tom Hunton and Johnny Owens claims, also irrigation ditches on both sides of Chug - fee $60 ; Publisher Glafcke, M. E. Post and F. E. Warren helped make Cheyenne the mail and supply center for the Black Hills ; New iron roofing for house at Bordeaux ; Building rock dam for Johnny Owens irrigation ditch ; Town site of ”Brackett City” laid out in Muskrat Canyon - business booms ; How Goldschmidt won his seat beside stage driver Lathrop ; Pays fifty cents for a copy of ”Gaiety” -- April 1880 : To Cheyenne for Stock Growers Meeting - time for roundup set ; fifth Cavalry establishes new post on Running Water ; Has first drink of wine in five years ; w. B. Williams and Lem smith boy Box Elder cattle herd for $34,000 ; Settles up with L. P. Justy, Malcolm Campbell, Robert Fryer and others ; Searight’s roundup at Fort Fetterman - Jim Berry joins as Hunton’s ”rep” ; Bargains with Dave Lord to run ox-train ; Bill Freeland, George Harris and E. H. Redfern to put in firewood ; Confederate General J. L. Kemper receives financial lift -- May 1880 : Charlie Wright to haul hay from Bordeaux to Fort Fetterman for $20 ton ; Speed Stagner lowest bidder on beef for Fetterman at 10 cents a pound ; Carey and Wolcott roundup outfits camp at Box Elder ; Tom Mathews gets a big pay check ; Malcolm Campbell placed in charge of Box Elder ranch ; Loans F. M. Phillips $2000 for ninety days ; Building ditches, bridges, flumes etc. for Bordeaux Irrigation System ; Tom Hunton proves up on claim - brother John pays a lot of debts ; Republicans meet in Laramie, elect delegates to National Convention ; Visits General Flint and family at Fort Sanders ; Buys Col. Van Vliet’s old white stallion for $225 ; Swan’s roundup party passes Bordeaux ; Railroad survey runs through Hunton Meadows and corrals ; 1,000 cattle for $34,000 with 166 calves thrown in ; Cheyenne Trotting Association Fee $25 -- June 1880 : Contracts to supply Fort Fetterman with 700 cords firewood at $8 per cord ; Teamster shortage - has only 96 oxen working ; Malcomb Campbell shows Charley more

v. 4. - Part two : 1881 ; January, 1881 : Now thirteen years on the frontier ; Bull whacking, Squaw Man and Indian War days are now over for John Hunton ; See firl on street - calls her his destiny - a case of love at first sight if there ever was one ; Finds state of delapidation in his Virginia homeland ; Meets Miss Blanche Taylor at hop in the Old Temperance Hall ; Old homes and old memories still linger in Madison, Virginia ; The Hunton Hotel an ancient landmark ; A dinner party at Genera; J. L. Kemper’s ; Cave and Sparks start new steam sawmill ; A coward with the ladies - Too bashful to ask Blanche for date ; Forty five acres of Hunton Virginia land bring $262.00 ; Some farm and home essentials of 1881 -- Februrary, 1881 : Escorts the Misses Kemper and Young to dance - wishes it could have been Blanche instead ; Feels like giving his rival a dynamite pill ; A date at last - has trouble talking - heart gets in his mouth ; Young ladies put on a ”Snide” show - but Blanche magnificent as The Goddess of Liberty ; Destroys record of conversation at mysterious tea party ; Once started makes fast progress - proposes and is accepted ; Nannie Clay saw Lee’s surrender from perch in Cherry tree - tells of social life on the Wyoming frontier ; Looking for non-existent mines with Mr. Sparks ; Gives $25 to Episcopal church -- March, 1881 : Blanche breaks engagement to Mr. Smoot - but it wasn’t easy ; Does not tell Blanche about Lallee - fears she would discard him with scorn ; Small town gossips get in their licks ; Asks Dr. Taylor for his daughter’s hand - the doctor says no ; Blanche promises to wait, but he doubts it ; Starts back to Wyoming - brideless and sad ; Sees Fanny Davenport in ”Frou Frou” - too lovesick to enjoy it ; Resolves no to think so much about Blanche - silly boy! ; Union Pacific Railroad washed out near Fremont - takes B. & M. via Lincoln ; The Oelrich Brothers lived high, wide and handsome on the range ; Lovers correspond daily - exchange photos ; Frank Browning gets summer job at $40 per month ; Reads ”A Mad Marriage” - makes him think of Blanche ; authorizes Gen. J. L. Kemper to buy Dr. Reeves’ farm for $10,000 ; A $75 diamond ring for Blanche -- April 1881 : George Boswell starts cooking at Bordeaux ; Attends meeting of stockmen in Cheyenne ; Buys McCreary’s mule team - sells it to Hunter & Bergman for $833 ; Clay & Hunton low bidders on freight contract ; Sells Little Bat Garnier three horses, harness and wagon ; Rustic Hotel at Fort Laramie buys load of hay ; Detailed bids on hay, wood and coal for Forts Fetterman and Laramie ; Williams & Smith delinquent on Box Elder Ranch notes ; Planning to build house for Blanche at Bordeaux ; building fence around Platte meadows ; John W. Ford was stage agent, telegraph operatot and U. S. Commissioner at FT. Laramie ; Menea’s Saddle & Harness Shop was a Cheyenne institution -- May 1881 : Shopping for mares at the TY - quality good but priced too high ; Blanche invites him to Rendezvous in Washington, D. C. ; Takes along $1000 for expenses - hopes to bring her back, but has misgivings ; Orders lumber for new house - Jake to make window frames for $5 each, door frames for $3.50 ; Pays guide $2.50 to show him the sights in Washington while waiting ; Blanche arrives one day late - he has a feeling somethin is wrong ; Lovers fail to reach understanding - have sad uncertain parting ; Attends George Washington’s Masonic Lodge in Alexandria, Virginia ; Feels mighty low traveling back to Wyoming ; doubts they will ever marry ; Starts foreclosure proceedings against Williams & Smith ; Colts break from pasture - one badly wire cut ; Pratt & Ferris finish paying for Little Moon -- June 1881 : Repossesses SO herd and other Box Elder property from Williams & Smith ; Burning lime to build honey moon house at Bordeaux ; Glafcke printed Wyoming’s first law book - some public officials of more

v. 4. Part Three - 1882 : January 1882 : Start of a new era in more ways than one ; A girl bride’s auburn curl ; Blanche under doctor’s care in Cheyenne Hotel ; buys 102 Oregon heifers from Hi Kelly for $2,000 ; Newlyweds leave for Bordeaux home - Blanche with lots of flowers and a cook ; Busy time cleaning house, moving in furniture, laying carpets, etc. ; Tom Haynes and Billy irvine guests at first meal in new house ; Cook Pritchett did not last long ; Piano and servant girl arrive from Cheyenne ; Ice harvest completed in four days ; Blanche sick again - Dr. Marston summoned from Fort Laramie - arrive 4 A. M. -- February 1882 : Breaks hay press horse power all to pieces ; A. B. Clark’s sister visits Bordeaux - takes first horseback ride ; R. S. Van Tasse ; driving beef to Cheyenne ; Hauling hay to Bard’s ranch and Eagles Nest ; Starts large fencing project - shows Bob Grant and Jim Lane where it will cross public domain ; How big cattle men divided up the open range ; G. D. MacDougal attended Mary Regan’s school - remembers when Duncan Grant started courting ; to Cheyenne with Gen. Merritt - Blanche and brother Tom follow ; The dashing Dater brothers helped organize the Cheyenne club - worked on first Wyoming brand book ; Circulates petition for Bordeaux-Fetterman Mail route ; Dr. Gray recommends medical treatment for Blanche -- March 1882 : A long month in Cheyenne with Blanche under doctor’s care ; Leavitt’s Variety Show was a snide affair ; Make model car axlw and wheel - has it patented ; Hauling tons of fence wire to Bordeaux ; Heart disease annoying - expects to die any day, but does not tell anyone ; A. B. Clarke hiring men for roundup - gives note and mortgage on cattle ; Buys carriage of Wm Swan for $300 - has new top put on buggy ; Loans F. M. Phillips team and buggy to drive home from Cheyenne ; Buys Chug Springs Ranch from B. W. Madill for $600 -- April 1882 : Stock Association meeting draws crowd from all parts of Territory ; Bids with John Coad on hay for Fort Laramie ; Posey Ryan hauls some good potatoes to Bordeaux ; Somebody broke Blanche’s fish bowl ; Fencing in some 14,000acres of public domain ; butcher Phillips comes to dinner - buys ”Nubbins” ; Miss Clarke goes to Denver ; tommy Hawk needs five tons of hay ; Blanche considerably nore expensive than was Lallee -- May 1882 : Chugwater nearest telegraph station to Bordeaux ; Annie Maxwell a visitor at Hunton Home ; Wet Spring - heavy snows and rains - grass prospects good ; E. Nagle and Heck Reel roundups near Bordeaux ; Terrill Taylor arrives - after a stopover in the Cheyenne calaboose ; Fifth Cavalry camps at Bordeaux - Gives a serenade ; Dr. Bock operates on bull - fee ”exhorbitant” ; Bargains with Bettelyoun to put up hay ; Provines surveys John Owens’ place and ditch for Tom Hunton’s desert claim ; Luke Voorhees moving stage station from Bordeaux to Chug Springs -- June 1882 : George Morgan has blooded cattle on Cheyenne ; van Tassell drives vull herd from Cheyenne through Bordeaux ; Spring roundup and colt breaking time ; Finishes big pasture fence - drives out all cattle - starts cross fencing ; Hi Kelly repairing Chugwater Bridge ; Brands the Kelly calves ”LD” ; George Drake delivers stage co. hay at Fort Laramie ; Sale of government horses at the old fort ; Building stage company stables at Chug Springs ; 1882 Brand Book sold for $15 -- July 1882 : Wolves attack and injure four calves ; Hauling hay to new Chug Springs Stage Station ; Blanche fires Lucy Stong - ”Patsy” is new hired girl at Bordeaux ; Hires ten ”hands” in Cheyenne - haying at Bordeaux starts July 13 ; Wilson Woods’ Homestead became Fergie Mitchell’s ranch ; Frenchy Cazaubon was popular little peddler with a store on wheels ; A. B. Clarke to run cattle for $37.50 per month ; Buys raffle ticket on Gen. Merritt’s shot gun ; Upset about more

v. 5. Part one - 1883 : Prelude -- January 1883 : Wyoming population 20,000 - United States 50,000,000 ; Back to Wyoming from holiday vacation in Virginia ; Prices ranch property to Hi Kelly for $110,000 ; Administrator for Charley Wild Estate - J. W. Hammond and Colin Hunter his security - T. A. Kent, Charley Coffey and Will Jeffrey appraisers ; The 1884 Brand Book of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association ; Brands and ranges of J. W. Hammond; Hunter & Bergman; C.F. Coffee; E. Tillotson; Post, Brown & Lawrence; Warren Live Stock Co.; The swans; Organ & Phillips; Whipple & Hay and Willie Whipple ; Thos. J. Snow was brand inspector ; Hires

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