This sometimes runs so literally true that one thinks the writer thereof had lived long years. Take the story of the family of Astors, for illustration. In 1812 and 1813 Robert Stuart and his party of Astorians wintered a little north of Scottsbluff. and since then four generations of the Astors have had some calling back to the land of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming, although their interests here seemed to have terminated long ago.

One of the pretty romances of the great prairies came about in the early eighties, and it involves well known characters locally, as well as in high finance.

When Tonv Kennedy arrived from Ireland

with James Baxter, they landed at Pittsburg. Both were strapped and both wanted a job. One took one side of the street and one the other and both landed jobs in stores almost opposite each other. Kennedy went to work for Arbuckle, who later became one of the Arbuckle Brothers, whose coffee was all over the country a generation ago. Baxter and Kennedy came on to western Nebraska in 1886.

The Arbuckles made money, and contracted the ranch fever. They came to Cheyenne, and bought the A. M. Post horse ranch on "Pole" creek, sixteen miles north of that city. They built a large two story ranch house, with modern conveniences on each floor, and otherwise improved the place to make it coincide with their views of what a ranch should be ; and they had saddles and talahoes, and servants and all that added to comfort.