The latter still lives at Ogallala, and when the herd was taken to the northwest, Jacket parted with his interests, and located a ranch in Spring Canyon, just south of Lewellen, where I believe he still lives (1919).

Jacket's men captured a pair of young buffalo over on the Stinking water, in the south part of Keith county, now Perkins county, in 1885. He kept them with his herd until 1891, when he sold them to a butcher in Ogallala, who shipped them to Omaha. Cattle were low priced then, and when these buffalo brought one hundred dollars each, it was considered an excellent price.

E. M. Searle, afterwards state auditor, was station agent at Ogallala, then the greatest cattle shipping point west of Omaha. George Halligan, a brother of Attorney John Halligan at North Platte, was marshal, and being marshal of Ogallala required nerve, and good judgment. Mart DePreist was sheriff of Keith county about that time, which was also a job of responsibility in those earlier days. DePreist is now chief of police at Ogallala, (1919).

Charlie McCune, who lives at Scottsbluff, is one of the boys that worked for the Ogallala outfit in its later days, when they were gathering the herds for the Wyoming drive.

The several locations of ranches that had come into the possession of the Ogallala concern were sold on about the same basis of that sold to Frank King -- a few dollars each. The values of such places were not considered of much consequence. Watering places had been early appropriated, and usually some cow puncher would make a government filing, and after making final proof, he would sell to the outfit for a few hundred extra dollars.