Col. Wm. D. Pickett 



the ravages of war, until the latter part of 1873, 

 when he resigned to take a needed rest. 



After some years of recreation the voice from 

 the Western wilds so persistently called that about 

 July 21, 18^6, he found himself on a steamer, at 

 Bismarck, Dakota, bound for the headwaters of the 

 great Missouri. He spent some years traveling 

 and hunting in a country then almost unknown, and 

 it is the adventures of those years, beginning with 

 1876 and closing with 1883, that are described in 

 the following chapters. In 1883 Colonel Pickett, 

 as will be shown in his story, took up land on the 

 Grey Bull River, and for a long time held a ranch 

 there devoted to raising of thoroughbred Hereford 

 cattle. 



Colonel Pickett twice represented Fremont 

 County, Wyo., in the State Legislature, and was 

 State Senator from Big Horn County, in the 

 organization of which he was prominent. He has 

 always been a devoted Democrat in politics. Since 

 the year 1853 he has been a member of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the 

 American Association of Political and Social 

 Science and of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. He has lived a long, 

 honorable and useful life. 



