FIRST HEREFORDS ON THE RANGE 697 



Miller sold forty bulls to the Swans in Wyoming, 

 and in 1878 Thomas Clark sold twenty young bulls 

 to J. E. Temple, Chico Springs, N. M. The results of 

 the use of the blood wherever tried proved so satis- 

 factory that numerous inquiries came into the mar- 

 ket for white-faced bulls. Unfortunately not all of 

 those secured were purebred, and many of the 

 grades had little to recommend them except their 

 white faces. Nevertheless, it was soon made clear 

 that the breed was destined to materially reduce the 

 risks of cattle-raising on the open ranges. 



Prominent among those who became identified 

 with the Hereford cause in the new west at an early 

 date, in addition to those already mentioned, were 

 the Culvers of Colorado, Reynolds Bros., John W. 

 Prowers, J. W. Iliff, John H. Hitson, Thatcher 

 Bros., G. F. Lord, Ikard Bros., T. W. Owen, B. C. 

 Rhome, G. H. Curtis, Hall Bros., Geddes & Bryan, 

 R. S. Van Tassel, J. A. Baker, Jones Bros., Joseph 

 Scott, Lee & Reynolds, W. E. Campbell, Towers & 

 Gudgell and Dickey Bros. The earliest owners of 

 pedigree Herefords in Kansas, so far as is shown 

 by the first volume of the American herd book, were 

 C. W. Kimball of Wichita, W. M. Morgan and J. M. 

 Winter of Irving, F. H. Jackson of Maple Hill, T. 

 H. Cavanaugh of Salina and H. Woodward of Blue 

 Rapids. 



First Hereford Sale in the West. On May 23, 

 1879, Charles Gudgell sold twenty-five young Here- 

 ford bulls at auction at the Kansas City Stock 

 Yards. It was the day after one of the big Hamilton 



