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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1882
Page
2
A domestic vignette depicts Mrs Skinner visiting with family. The hostess teases about daughters, painters, and a baby, while noting sons returning from Reverend Russell and leaving Clara at home. The exchange mixes warmth with playful sarcasm about gifts and social expectations.
The aging road agent known as the Colonel fakes retirement after a spree of losses and a final bold scheme. He stages a staged robbery with accomplices, frees passengers, and ultimately helps an elderly woman identify him, muttering “Mother” as the curtain falls.
A collection of odd historical notes mentions piety in the Bible, perch gills covering a yard, water in pistols as a deadly short range charge, John Paul Jones’s hammer in Indiana, Mezzofanti’s Bologna birth and Rome death, a Greene Maine cake mishap with a seven inch snake, a man tracing a counterfeit note via his own name, and several Wyoming range mentions near Muddy and Crow creeks and Lost Springs on the North Platte.
A lengthy list of cattle and horse brands with owners and ranges across Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Names include H A Blair, Chandler, Stoddard Lapham Howard, Joseph Live Stock Co, Kennedy & White, Chamberlin & Doty, Philip & James Dater, Creighton & Co, Chas Hecht & Bro, and others. Details cover left side, left hip, left ear marks, and various crop, slope, and bridle bit designs across Powder River, Laramie, Crazy Woman, Deer, Cherry creeks, and related ranges.
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