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Western Cattle Companies, 2 Stock and 1 Bond [173747]

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Western Cattle Companies, 2 Stock and 1 Bond    [173747]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Dec 10 @ 08:13UTC-8 : PST/AKDT

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Four Jay Cattle, LUCKY NUMBER 13 for 98 shares to Frederick Jones. Signed by RF Glover(?) and FE Addoms as president. Dateline 1889. Not cancelled. Vignette of a cowboy lassoing a 4J steer. Other cattle on running away. '4J' brand inside red seal. Printed by John Morris of Chicago. No edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. Excellent. The 4J ranch was most noted for the dashingly handsome “Mexican” John Marroquin . He’d come to Wyoming with a trail herd in 1877 and worked for future Wyoming governor John Kendrick on the famed OW before starting with F.E. Addoms and R.F. Glover’s Four Jay Cattle Company in 1884. They had the cowboy that Kendrick called “the best roper on the range.” That would be Wyoming Hall of Fame cowboy Mexican John. By 1893, the 4J employed more than 100 men and ran cattle and sheep over 250 square miles from the Black Hills to the Big Horns. By 1906, the 4J Ranch was running 30,000 cattle and 33,000 sheep. It shipped 120 railroad cars full of cattle every two weeks. [Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame online].

Dowlin and Rush Cattle Company Stock. # 90 to JW Gibbons or 10 shares. Signed by Bower and president John Dowlin. Dateline 1886. Incorporated in 1884. Cattle with the Dowlin Rush brand vignette. National Bureau of Engraving of Philadelphia printer. Small pin holes on folds. Fold nicks at edges. Dog ears. Overall quite nice. Large note on back from the executor of the JW Gibbons estate to layer John R Rush to dispose of said stock. 1896.

JR Rush and John Dowlin were both members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. It was this organization that was directly involved with the Johnson County Wars. The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were innocent settlers that competed with them for land, livestock and water rights. As tensions swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state, violence finally culminated in Powder River Country, when the ranchers hired armed gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory aroused the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months.

Rare Union Cattle bond, 1886. Nice ox vignette. Signed by Thomas and Frank Sturgis.