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square and well finished about the rumps, with 

 thighs carried well down to straight and well- 

 filled legs. He was rated by good judges as 

 one of the best bulls of his time in the West, 

 and his victories in the show-yard at the Illi- 

 nois State Fair, at St. Louis and other lead- 

 ing exhibitions gained for him much reputa- 

 tion. 



Tycoon was a uniformly good breeder and 

 many of his heifers were fitted for show with 

 great success. Prominent among his get may 

 be mentioned the $1,000 show heifer Maud 

 Muller, Illustrious 5th and the famous Young 

 Marys, Grace Youngs 4th, 5th and 6th. He 

 was sold at auction in 1871 to Mr. S. C. Duncan 

 of Missouri and died in 1873. His sister, Illus- 

 trious 3d, was also a great winner in the herd 

 of Messrs. Brown. 



King's victory at St. Louis. When the 

 great St. Louis show of 1870 opened its gates 

 Old Sam was found at the head of the Lyndale 

 Herd. He was a red, bred by R. H. Crabb of 

 Chelmsford, Essex, Eng., and was got by the 

 Bell-Bates Duchess Nancy bull Duke of Graf- 

 ton (21594), a son of exported Duke of Geneva 

 (11)614), and similar in his breeding to the cele- 

 brated Grand Duke of Oxford (28763), sire of 

 Rev. B. B. Kennard's great English-bred prize 

 cow Queen Mary. Old Sam's dam was the 

 mixed-bred cow Roma, by Baron Roxwel] 



