A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



nues of achievement, and he missed Eugene H. 

 Grubb by a wide margin. 



Elbert Hubbard, who went down in the ill-fated 

 Liisitania, left from his gifted pen a sketch of Eugene 

 Grubb which is among the best biographical classics 

 of recent years. In it he reviews the crucible in 

 which the Grubb character was formed, the forge in 

 which it was hammered out from the humble Penn- 

 sylvania Dutch farm to the meeting of Kings and 

 Emperors, while making a report for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture upon the com- 

 parative farming of Europe and America. The un- 

 dercurrent of the work in blacksmith shops, on canals, 

 rivers, derricks and farming was this: "This thing 

 can be done, and must be well done." 



It is my purpose in this sketch to go into the more 

 intimate and human side of this outstanding Amer- 

 ican. I first met Mr. Grubb at the International in 

 Chicago in 1904. I had known of him and his work, 

 of his Colorado Shorthorns, and of his constructive 

 methods in everything that he undertook for years; 

 but this was my first personal contact with him. He 

 had been showing an unusual load of two-year-old 

 feeder Shorthorn steers at the St. Louis World's Fair, 

 winning the grand championship at a time when there 

 was real competition in the feeder classes at all the 

 great cattle shows. I think that the highest compli- 

 ment that I can pay his load of steers is to say that 

 they looked like the sort of steers that Grubb would 



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