Natrona County High School - Mustang Yearbook (Casper, WY)

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V Q 0 ,D 1 A ,X : '? -- - Q -I.-.153 Cattlemen and Warne , - m :mil f W as H f Jr . is ,uf f wi 1..- f l Q 1, s 'li fe .1 ll Fir Q li f I ff l . M 3225.5 K K f g ' J. f fin ' fo Y I . F' I af or f e ll 1 ' , Yi zq -Q Voce , ,as-, V . J.'f ' CPYQXI- I mug K ,lille 2m,...,. 717,-le be! Many years before Wyoming became a state she numbered among her settlers a great many fearless men with ambitions and dreams which have been realized although they did not live to see the fulfillment. One of the bravest and most hospitable of these was Tom Sun, a dark-eyed, dark-haired man, thought to be of Canadian-French descent. No one ever tried to bluff Tom Sun, because they knew their bluff would be called, but if you played square with him, a more congenial man you never found. Quite late in life he married a Rawlins girl and they had one son, Tom Sun Jr., who is now living on the old ranch at Devil's Gate on the Sweetwater River. Another early settler was H. W. Davis, who came to Wyoming in 1878. He homesteaded some land at Sussex on the Powder River, which is not far from the present location of Salt Creek. Mr. Davis had married an Eastern girl before coming to Wyoming and she proved herself very capable of managing a ranch. Because Davis' initials were H. W. and because he was bothered by a cattle- rustler who passed by his place late in the fall of every year, folks called him Hard Winter Davis and today he is remembered by that name. About the same time that Davis was having trouble with cattle rustlers, a homesteader and his wife were having trouble with Indians down near the present cite of Chugwater. These homestead- ers were from Missouri and to them speaking with an Indian was an unforgivable breach of etiquette. So they looked at the Indians with disgust. Naturally the Indians resented this so they drove the homesteader out of the country. Hi Kelley heard of this incident and also of the good land around Chugwater. He went there and married an Indian maiden and in that way got many acres of rich land that he would not have otherwise had. He finally became a member of the Swan 6 Land Cattle Company but he remained faithful to his Indian wife. Two other old-timers that everyone has heard of are Major Frank Wolcott and J. M. Carey. Major Wolcott came to this territory in 1879 and started the VR ranch out on Deer Creek. He be- came widely known and very popular and today one of the important streets of Casper is named after him. J. M. Carey came in 1879 and he started a little cattle ranch near old Fort Casper. The ranch prospered until it was one of the largest cattle ranches in Wyoming. It was called the CY.ranch and the road leading to this was the CY road. Today this road is a busy street in Casper but it still bears the name CY. 6 . i . .T ..,. ff .,.., ., Images not available

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Calamity Jane f ff Qs eg ff 'rx 'X aww: .fs 'W A 5-jhg .,. -I Q, ,xox et-22231, fini 54 as ti as - - AM -1gv,lg-4g?.,s.W 5 AH M 1 - ff f- Y , , ALJ fl -1- -'J r ' M K 1 ,D ,gf . -Y.-Y. . ,.,-Y-c. ff' e--caps,-k, f Calamity Jane, whose correct name was Martha Jane Canary, was first 'heard of in Miner's Delight, a little town in southwestern Wyoming. An eastern lady, Mrs. Madison, adopted her and took her to New York to educate her. Jane returned after three years without any visible sign of an education. How she received the name of Calamity was told by Buffalo Bill as follows: While out scout- upon three Cheyenne Indians who had wounded and captured Captain Egan killed one of the Indians and rescued the captain from the other two. When his wound under Calamity's care as nurse, he remarked that she was a good in case of calamity and nick-named her Calamity Jane. ing one day she came of Fort Laramie. She he had recovered from person to have around About 1877 Calamity became a scout for the military escort of Professor Jenny, a government geologist, who was going into the Black Hills. During the gold rush which followed this geologists's discoveries she met and married Wild Bill Hickok. A short time after this Jack McCaul, a stage driver, whom Calamity had once nursed and cared for shot and killed Wild Bill during a fight in Ma McPherson's saloon. Calamity's vengeance was swift, for before the night was over the body of Jack McCaul was hanging from a pine tree. Calamity came back to Cheyenne in 1880 and for several years travelled about over the southern half of the state. She was becoming more or less of the same type of woman as Lou Polk, who ran a dance hall in Casper's early days, or Sage Hen and Cactus Kate, famous dance hall girls of the early 80's Jeff Crawford tells of the time when she travelled from Rock Creek to Douglas. She wore a red dress, red hat and carried as personal baggage a bottle of whiskey and a box of grapes, both of which steadily diminished in quantity. At one place it was necessary to ford a river and Calamity, riding on the box with Jeff received a good soaking. Jeff said that the water mixed freely with the color of her dress, and this combined with smeared grape juice and spilled whiskey made of her a spectacle which drew the interest and comment of every citizen in Douglas. However, the remarks which Calamity made on that occasion need not go down in history. In 1887 Calamity tried matrimony for the second time. This was no more successful than two later attempts in the same line. She finally settled down in Deadwood, South Dakota and there the life of Martha Jane Canary Hickok Stears King Burke came to an end in 1903. 28 J--1-fi -1-'- 1 -11. x 3,-sg,-.vv ,.f. ...,.. 2