Here he proceeded to blind it with a gunny sack, and then saddle and bridle it. One sudden upward swing of the head at an unexpected moment took "Brad," who was leaning over the partition from an adjoining stall, squarely in the face, and he lost all the teeth of his upper jaw on the left side. Occasionally afterwards, he would point out and display the gold teeth with which they were replaced, and say: "Well, I won the twenty-five, but it cost me a hundred."

When the granger came, the Seven-U was occupied by Ed Burnett, who was one of the old families about Bayard. Ed one night had a very vivid dream about the grave of one of

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the emigrants who was buried at the Seven-U. He awoke the next morning convinced that the grave was a cache for hidden gold, and he proceeded to put his faith in dreams into his works. But when he reached the proper depth

he found a crude decayed coffin and the remains of a little girl. After that. Burnett lost all faith in dreams, and such foolish things.

SURVEYOR SCHLEICxEL'S TEAMSTER HUNG AT SIDNEY -- THE BOSLER RANGE -- THE VB BRAND -- MINNIE MONTGOMERY HONEY- MOON--THE HOUSE OF LA GRANGE

Contemporaneously with the establishment of the Powers ranch (about 1871), Bosler Brothers & Company built their home ranch on the lower Blue, near the present site of Lewellen, and extended their business to include several ranches up and down the North Platte river on the north side, but they always maintained the principal quarters on the Blue. They ran 15,000 to 20,000 cattle and were one of the big firms of the time. B-Bar and others were their brands.