Darrell Winfield was a cowboy and rancher all his working life, for twenty-one years in California’s San Joaquin Valley and forty-six years in Wyoming. “As long as I can remember,” Darrell said, “I always wanted to be a cowboy. I remember seeing guys horseback when I was...
Chuck (Jr) Williams was born on the 101 Ranch north of Moorcroft in 1931 to Charles (Wild Horse Charlie) and Gwendolyn Williams. His mother died when he was just 5 years old. Chuck spent his younger years in the Oshoto area. Being the eldest of 7 kids, his responsibilities...
Johny Weintz was born to John and Anita Mercer Weintz, on their ranch west of Hyattville. John Weintz was the first settler on Paint Rock Creek, staking his claim around 1884. Johny was the second of five children and attended school on a nearby ranch. He then went to...
Leonard Albert Walker born April 16, 1912 Saratoga, Wyoming to A. B. Walker and Madeline McPhail Walker. Died September 18, 1957. Len attended the University of Wyoming and was a member of the ATO Fraternity. Won Cheyenne Frontier Days All Wyoming Bronc Riding in 1937....
“If you leave some pasture, you will always have some.” Sound wisdom from long term range steward, and cowboy Glen Wadsworth. The kind of thinking and living that grew the FW bar from its start of 17 cows,3 horses to over 1500 mother cows, 1000 yearling steers and a corral...
On a cold wintry day, William Byron Titensor was born February 26, 1925 on the Titensor ranch in Thayne, Star Valley, Lincoln County, Wyoming. He was the second son of Philemon and Martha Moser Titensor. He has lived on the ranch his entire life of 90 years. He was born...
Ask the Ol’ Timers in the vast open spaces of Sublette County, Wyoming who they think the toughest man they ever knew was and “Harve Stone” flows from their lips. ‘Slim,’ as his friends called him, didn’t have to say aloud what his life motto was: hard work, a helping...
Laddie Smith, was born and raised in the Sandhills of Nebraska. His folks ranched there and he never left the ranch. He’s the 2nd eldest of five siblings, four still living. All the kids worked on the ranch at some point but for Laddie it was his life’s calling. Ranching...
The cowboy way of life for Ed (Eddie) and Peggy Shaffer started at a very young age. Born in 1940 to Glenn and Helen, Ed grew up in the Lucerne area of Hot Springs County and Peggy was born in 1946 to Victor and Matilda Schaff in ND. Ed’s family owned a small place on...
Leonard T. Sedgwick came to Niobrara County, Wyoming on a train from Cheyenne to Edgemont, SD at the age of 2 1/2 years. He was accompanied by his mother and younger sister Ida. From Edgemont they were taken to the Wyoming ranch by a livery stable driver in a sleigh. It...
William (Bill) (Billy) A. Scoon 1900-1989 A cowboy’s cowboy—that was Bill Scoon. Who was this cowboy, and what made him special? Bill Scoon was (as was his father Alfred F. Scoon, a 2015 WCHF Inducee) foreman of the JG (Little Horse Creek Cattle Company—the Hunter Ranch)....
Al Scoon sailed from Scotland to America at the age of 14 after having lost his mother and father. After landing at New York, he hired on with the Arbuckle Coffee Company to escort a trainload of horses to Denver. From there he reached Wyoming Territory and continued a new...
Ralph was born to Floyd “Spike” and Elma Schuppan Nov. 29, 1931 in Harrisburg, NE, where Ralph received his early education in Banner County. In Dec. of 1947 the family moved to LaGrange when Floyd purchased the “Dollar Ranch” on Bear Creek. Ralph worked on the home place...
William D. Saunders (Bill) was born to Roy and Mabel (Seaton) Saunders on December 19, 1925. Dr. Huff who rode by horseback to deliver Bill was unable to make it on time before Bill decided to make his entrance to this life; therefore, Bill was delivered by Mabel’s mother...
James Newell Robbins was born on September 18, 1906 at Boxelder, Wyoming. He spent most of his life in northern Albany County where his Dad had homesteaded. He lived with his parents and the Newells and then went to Casper to grade school. Jim lived in Nevada for a few...
Charles Rankin was born January 6, 1925 on the Rankin Ranch, where he has spent his entire life. The ranch was homesteaded in 1912 by his father, Robert. During the 30’s the dust blew so bad he had to cover his face walking the half mile to and from the school bus. The...
This poem encapsulates the true story of Bill’s life. 4W BILL That’s what’s scratched on this headstone, just a plain ol’ rock of brown – In a lonely cemetery, in a little Wyoming town . . . As I stand here with these flowers, his face is fuzzy in my brain, But, I can see...
Burl was born in 1921 in Linwood, Utah, and was the 4th of 13 siblings. He worked on the family farm during his early years. He went to a one room school house until the 8th grade. In 1933 at the age of 12, he had the job to change out the horses on the construction of a...
Long live cowboys. Gerald Perkins, exudes the spirit of the cowboy with a rich heritage that goes back generations. Gerald was born in 1931 up the Greybull River on his family ranch near Meeteetse Wyoming. The ranch encompassed nearly six thousand acres and ran three...
James I Newland was born in Belle Fourche , S.D. in Feb 1911, he graduated from Belle Fourche S. D. in 1929, When he turned 21 in 1932 he homesteaded on Owl Creek on the Wyoming side of the SD and Wyoming border. It was the last homestead claim recorded in Crook County,...
Bill McKee was born and raised on a ranch. He lived close to Elk Mountain Wyoming as a young boy, where he was a part of the family ranch. He and his wife Barbara McKee moved to Savery Wyoming in the early 60’s where they ran cattle for the family ranch. He moved to his...
Irma Williams Hancock McGuire was an avid cowgirl and true horsewomen. Irma was able to portray her true love of the western life through the colorful stories she shared with her children, grandchildren and friends. She was able to paint a picture in my mind of a horse...
Roy Martin was a “fixture” on the Gros Ventre. Even after his saddle years had ended (sometime in his ninth decade), he still showed up at Jack Robinson’s working corrals to watch the loading or unloading process as the cattle headed for or returned from the range. He...
Curtis was born May 31st, 1916 at home on the Wood River, because of the flu epidemic. He attended Dick Creek Schools and then stayed at home to help his father Henry, with the ranch. One of the best bronc riders around, Curtis almost took to rodeo, but instead stayed to...
William H. (Bill) Kruse was born August 27, 1891 in Philadelphia, PA to Von Wilhelm Kruse and Pauline Ebert Kruse. He was the oldest of three children. While still a small boy, he moved with his divorced mother and some of her family to Ardmore, SD. His boyhood was spent...
Francis Kolego was born in Canada on July 7, 1914. Francis’s family moved from Canada to homestead in Wyoming in 1921. They arrived in Manville, Wyoming by train. Everything they owned was in the rail car, including the first piano brought into the area. The family spent...
Charles (Chas) Kane is a lifetime Sheridan County resident that has made ranching his way of life, just as his father and grandfather had done. Born in 1932, Chas graduated high school in 1950, married Arlene in 1951, and raised five children on the ranch, four sons and...
Dennis “Denny” Jones was born in Thermopolis, WY on Oct. 6 1931 to Durward and Dorothy Jones. He has worked as a cowboy his whole life with the exception with his time in the Army. As a child he worked on the family ranch south of Thermopolis. He started breaking colts...
Harold Jarrard was born and raised in Cowboy Country on the North Fork of Powder River, the Wyoming creek that is the source of one of the western world’s most famous cries, “Powder River, Let ‘Er Buck.” Letting horses buck is exactly what Jarrard has been doing– for more...
Bob was born on December 25, 1930 in Moorcroft, Wyoming to Erman Ernest Hladky and Lulu Marie (Gibson) Hladky. He was raised during the Great Depression, in Campbell County. Erman worked on the American Ranch east of Gillette until Bob was about ten years old, which is...
Ivan “Ike” Herold was born Aug. 17, 1929 to Joe and Lillian Herold on the Baggs Livestock Ranch west of Baggs, where Joe worked. When Ike was 7 or 8 years old his parents purchased the ranch. As a young child Ike could always be found at the barn playing with the animals...
Bred to be a cowboy would certainly apply to George Hereford. His family tree includes the original breeders of the Hereford cattle breed in England. His American branch includes our first President, George Washington’s sister. His Wyoming leaf includes his Grandfather...
Lyman A. Harmon was born September 20, 1937, in Fairview, Lincoln County, Wyoming. He is the son of Orson Willis Harmon and LeNora Barrus Harmon. One of Lyman’s first recollections was riding horses when he was three years old. His dad put him on one of the team horses...
William D. “Bill” and Billee Hackett – William D. Hackett was 14 years old when he left home. He went to work doing various odd jobs aroundGillette. He ended up at the Wagonson Ranch where he learned to break colts and work cattle. In 1953 he married Billee McClure....
“The only boot tops I’ve ever had to repair from riding came from two families in Johnson County,” says Mitch Black local boot repairman, “And the Graves family is one of them.” Riding is way of life and tradition born of true ranch culture as well the demands of the...
Bob was born and raised in the Big Horn Mountains and Buffalo, Wyoming. He graduated from Buffalo High School. He met Martha Douglas Walker at the Triangle T ranch, where she lived outside Big Horn, Wyoming. Bob competed in the calf ropings in the indoor arena there. They...
Ranching wasn’t just a business for Gary Frank, it was a way of life. He was an astute and hardworking cattleman, a talented rodeo competitor, and a devoted family man who left a lasting mark on the Wyoming ranch community. Gary was born on a farm in Nebraska in 1943, and...
Rogelio (Roger) Fernandez and Esperanza (Hope) Fernandez were born in Mexico. Rogelio came from a ranching family in Mexico and always dreamed of pursuing his dreams of ranching in the United States. In 1954 Rogelio and Esperanza decided to come to the United States to...
Elza’s education was similar I imagine to many of the cowboy members of his era. When he was 4 years old his family moved to Harden Montana where he attended school for 1 or 2 years. The family returned to Rock Springs where he attended school up to the eighth grade. He...
Honey Stevick DeFord was born on December 19, 1934 in Casper, Wyoming, daughter of Harry H. and Agnes Stevick, and grew up ‘on the Antelope Creek Ranch belonging to her parents near Bill, Wyoming, in Converse County. Honey spent her youth on the ranch with her mother...
George Harry Cross was born of Scottish parentage in Montreal, Canada September 15, 1854. His father, Alex Cross, was a member of the King’s Council and was Chief Justice for the Province of Quebec. Harry received his education in private schools, Montreal high school,...
Bob was born on a farm near Blairsville Georgia in 1897. His mother passed away when Bob was about 8 years old. A few years later Bob’s father John P. Crisp decided to move his family, Bob, Bob’s brother Claude and sister Tony to Wyoming. Sometime around 1913 Bob’s father...
There are great Cowboys, great Horsemen, great Cattlemen, and great People. All who knew Bill Coy would say that he was all of these. Bill never met a man he didn’t like; you never knew a man who did not like him. Born June 1, 1919, Bill grew up in Torrington, Wyoming. His...
Powd’s formal education ended with the sixth grade but he had an inquiring mind and was a life-long avid reader of books and periodicals covering a wide variety of subjects. In addition to the requisite cowboy skills of horsemanship, roping, branding, calving and general...
Roger Joe Claytor was born on May 23, 1923 in Alcova WY, the seventh of eight children born to Mattie and Lon Claytor. Rog was born into a pioneer ranching family. His grandparents, Jake and Martha Ervay, arrived in Wyoming in 1881 after traveling from Texas in two covered...
Born November 24, 1915 to Christina and Edwin Earl “Cam” Camblin. The Camblins lived on a ranch near the Pumpkin Buttes. Earlie’s family’s ranch had cows, sheep, and a well known horse operation. Earlie was the oldest son and expected to be a hand from a very young age. He...
Annie (1889-1983) and Lloyd (1897-1981) Cain arrived on the Bitter Creek Ranch in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana with their son Cobb and daughter Doris in 1928. Lloyd and Annie were married in 1918 while Lloyd cowboyed for the El Sonora Cattle Co. near Ft...
Charlie Blackstone never wanted to be anything other than a cowboy, and that’s exactly what he did all his life. He never had a job where he wasn’t horseback. He was born at midnight, March 12, 1925 in Cody, WY. His parents ran cattle in the Heart Mountain area outside of...
John Bell was born and raised above Toltec on the family homestead. John quit school after 8th grade to help the family earn money. His father died when he was young and his mother spent a good deal of time caring for the family from a wheelchair. He spent his life...
These are the words of Buck Allemand whose life began on the home ranch in 1931. Buck’s grandfather, Jacque, and father, John, homesteaded where the Staple Three Sheep Company now resides. As a child Buck learned the sheep business out on the range while his mother...
Martin Aimone, son of Joseph and Frances was born, raised and passed on a cattle and sheep ranch outside of Fort Bridger Wyoming. He was one of 13 children from Italian emigrants who homesteaded the ranch in 1912. All of the children worked the ranch and were assigned...