He was quite dead, apparently from heart disease, and was taken back to Sidney, from which point the fact was communciated to the widow at the ranch.

"Ark" or "Henry County" Hughes was working for the Tusler people at the time. Hughes had come up from the mines of Colorado in 18S0. He went to work on the Tusler ranch in 1883, and remained there for four years. In the meantime he had "picked out" a place on Horse Creek, where he established his own ranch and range.

The Tusler cattle were sold to the Ogallala company, and the Greenwood ranch continued in the horse business a number of years. Charlie Nelson, a veteran of the other years, still operates it (1919), and it is worth while to start him reminiscensing, and hear story after story follow as he leads out like a hound upon a trail.

On Cedar creek, which the earlier maps designate as Rush creek, C. A. Moore built a ranch in the early seventies. The Shiedley Brothers bought this place for their North river operations. Mac Radcliff now owns it. The first convention that I ever attended in western Nebraska, was at Sidney, and Mac Radcliff was the nominee of the democratic party for county commissioner of old Cheyenne county.

The Rush creek shown on the maps today, was originally called Smith's Fork. Moore had from one thousand to two thousand cattle and his range extended from the mouth of Smith's Fork to the ranch.

When the Shiedley Brothers acquired this ranch, Moore went into the mercantile business. He established a big supply depot at Sidney for ranch supplies and Black Hills outfitting. And at one time the sod emporium at the north end of the Camp Clarke bridge was owned by Moore.