36 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



setts the bull calf that won considerable fame as 

 Duke of Shannon Hill and a heifer calf, Lady 

 Sale of Atchison. He also bought 10th Lady 

 Sale of Brattleboro, 15th Lady Sale of Brattle- 

 boro, Queen of the Bast by 22d Duke of Airdrie 

 and Zora by 15th Duke of Airdrie. To his credit 

 it must be said that he did not condemn all Short- 

 horns of mixed breeding as unworthy and he re- 

 tained many of his older cattle, but he neverthe- 

 less became a leader of Bates forces in the West 

 at the inopportune time that the " plain bred" 

 Cruickshank cattle from Scotland were making 

 the fight for supremacy and winning. 



Elected governor in 1882, G. W. Glick 's name 

 became a household word in Kansas and else- 

 where. His love for his favorite Bates cattle 

 was so firmly rooted that, unlike most other lead- 

 ing breeders, he did not fall in with the trend of 

 the times, but kept on breeding from his fe- 

 males and put the 53d Duke of Airdrie, an ex- 

 cellent Bates bull, in service. That Mr. Glick 

 built up a good herd is admitted, but that he could 

 have done much better had he fallen in line with 

 other leading breeders, using the Cruickshank 

 bulls even if not the females, is also quite evident. 

 Had he used his wonderful personality in co- 

 operation with such a man as Col. Harris, his 

 achievements would have been far greater. All 

 Gov. Glick 's effort to stem the tide was wasted. 

 The hour had come when merit, though stigma- 



