A few miles down the Laramie river from Creighton's ranch on the Laramie Plains, John Bratt, in 1867, built the second ranch located in Wyoming. This location antedated the activities of Bratt at North Platte, but a short time.

The Circle Arrow ranch, which is on Lodgepole creek a few miles east of Kimball, was established by J. J. Mcintosh in 1872. Griffin & Harken bought it and later sold it to John Sparks, who had the ranch on lower Horse creek. This was one of the ranches acquired by the Bay State Land & Cattle Company.

H. H. Robinson was manager of the Bay State when I came into the west and he lived

at Kimball, which was the new name of Antelopeville.

Johnny Peters, the cowboys called him "Pete," found his first work in western Nebraska, at the Circle Arrow, digging a cellar, the autumn of 1882. Peters and "Big Nose George" (that is the only name I ever heard for him,) were at work shoveling out the dirt. Peters had been up to the tie camps at Medicine Bow, and his muscles wrere hard from hewing ties, but "Big Nose George" was totally unused to work. He was a gambler of some repute, but had had a streak of bad luck, which his skill could not overcome. Being on his uppers, he had to do something, and fell in with Peters on this job. His lily white hands were a mass of cruel blisters, but he possessed the ability of sticking to the job.