A HlSTdBV UF SJlilin'IK.lBNS JX KANSAS 1-1 



einiiieiitiy useful life. ScN'eral of Lis sons retain 

 Slioi'tlioj'n iutcrests. 

 From Anderson County to Woodson. — Volume 



6 of the American herd book in which the Tip- 

 ton cattle were recorded w^as published in ISGo 

 and up to that time no other Shorthorns were 

 recoi'ded from Kansas, but in a'oI. 7, puljlished 

 three years later, the :i)ame of Joel Mo<.)dy of 

 Behnont, Woodson county, appears as the l^reed- 

 er of the white l^uU, King- of Kansas. He was b}' 

 Pascova SOSDi^o, a Tipton bred bull and out of 

 Queen of Kansas, a cow bred by the Shakers and 

 13urchased from Mr. Tipton, xjrobably in 1864. 

 Mr. Moody recorded the i:)roduce of this cow for 

 four years and after that neither he nor his cattle 

 aiDpear on record. 



Shorthorns Enter Shawnee County. — Volume 



7 also contains the pedigrees of two bulls and 

 ihne rows owned ])y Alkire (t Ward^ll of An<l- 

 erson <-oiuity. Several of tliese Avere l)re(l bv 

 tliem and calved in 1864 and 18G5 from purchases 

 made in Oliio and Kentucky prol^ably early in 

 1863. The difficulties atteirding the transpoi't- 

 ing of cattle to Kansas in those critical days must 

 ha^'e been almost insurmountal^le. It is not cer- 

 tain that these cattle were brought to Kansas be- 

 fore the Civil War ended in 1865, and though 

 lu'ed l>y Alkire o: AVardeil and credited to An- 

 dei'sou county, it is quite posshole that they wei-e 

 bred in Ohio and not recorded until after the 



