LET 'ER BUCK 



Such were the conditions which molded the stal- 

 wart, dauntless men who held taut the reins of order 

 and government. But perhaps to no one class of men 

 can the law, pioneers and our government ascribe 

 greater tribute than to the western sheriff, watchdog 

 of the peace and upholder of justice. To the memory 

 of no recent sheriff can Oregon, the West, the United 

 States pay greater tribute than to that of the late 

 Tilman D. Taylor of Pendleton, "Til" Taylor to 

 Oregon and the Northwest — just plain "Til" to his 

 friends and acquaintances. Not only as sheriff of 

 Umatilla County and as second president of the 

 Round-Up, which office he held for eight years, since 

 the first year of its inception, but as the outstanding 

 figure among the sheriffs of the West of to-day, 

 Til Taylor's character and record is as remarkable 

 as it was romantic. 



His career of upholding the law began twenty-two 

 years ago. The railroad had reached Pendleton a short 

 ten years before and the country was still in its meta- 

 morphosis from stock ranges to wheat lands. Pendleton 

 was very different from the trim progressive city of to- 

 day. It was then a small town of about three thousand 

 people. Like many a western town of that day, gam- 

 bling houses were run wide open, and there were at one 

 time twenty-seven saloons. Those days were a bit wild 

 and wooly, and the sheriff could walk the streets and 

 know just what criminals were in town; so when 

 something happened he could almost pick the man who 

 had committed the crime. 



The horse thief, "stick-up man" and "cattle rustlers" 

 were wary of the late sheriff, for he had never lost a 

 horse thief and could identify a horse regardless of its 

 condition. He had an intuition that was almost uncan- 



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