HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

THE FARQUERERS AND CROSS COUNTRY RIDING -- HUNTING GEESE ON

HUGHES ISLAND -- FUN OF THE FRONTIER -- JIMMY

MOORE'S LONG WALK

About the time of the coming of the grangers, Farquerer Brothers arrived, and located in the canyons between Redington Gap and Chimney Rock. They were also picturesque Englishmen, like Geo. Laing. Henry Bradford who stayed at the Seven-U much of the time, went about with the Farquerers and Laing.

Bradford had a penchant for exaggeration and a vivid imagination. As the Hon. T. C. Osborne, elected members of the new constitutional convention, (1919) says: "Bradford was a constitutional pervaricator," an opinion once quite general among the old timers.

At that, he was an entertainer of the first class, and when it came to good yarn, "Old Brad," as he was called, was an inexhaustible supply. He was an interesting character, and full of droll humor.

One time Brad was with a party doing the sights of early Sidney, when his exchequer ran low. He politely told the others of his intention to retire. When hard pressed he told the reason that he had no further funds to draw upon. The others, with true western spirit, told him that they did not care for his money, but that they wanted his society. He said: "Alright, boys, if it is my intellect that you want, I am with you, but I am out of cash."

These English boys used to keep good hounds and guns, and horses, and rode their English postage-stamp saddles straight up and many was the time that they rode to hounds, chasing wolves and coyotes, and antelope.