A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 25 



eminently useful life. Several of his sons retain 

 Shorthorn interests. 

 From Anderson County to Woodson. Volume 



6 of the American herd book in which the Tip- 

 ton cattle were recorded was published in 1863 

 and up to that time no other Shorthorns were 

 recorded from Kansas, but in vol. 7, published 

 three years later, the name of Joel Moody of 

 Belmont, Woodson county, appears as the breed- 

 er of the white bull, King of Kansas. He was by 

 Pascova 5059^, a Tipton bred bull and out of 

 Queen of Kansas, a cow bred by the Shakers and 

 purchased from Mr. Tipton, probably in 1864. 

 Mr. Moody recorded the produce of this cow for 

 four years and after that neither he nor his cattle 

 appear on record. 



Shorthorns Enter Shawnee County. Volume 



7 also contains the pedigrees of two bulls and 

 nine cows owned by Alkire & Wardell of And- 

 erson county. Several of these were bred by 

 them and calved in 1864 and 1865 from purchases 

 made in Ohio and Kentucky probably early in 

 1863. The difficulties attending the transport- 

 ing of cattle to Kansas in those critical days must 

 have been almost insurmountable. It is not cer- 

 tain that these cattle were brought to Kansas be- 

 fore the Civil War ended in 1865, and though 

 bred by Alkire & Wardell and credited to An- 

 derson county, it is quite possible that they were 

 bred in Ohio and not recorded until after the 



