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.

Post sold the ranch with a book value of five thousand mares, and they wanted a count. The old game of running the mares around a hill, and delivering the same lot two or three times was pulled off successfully here, and the Arbuckles received about two thousand instead of five. Naturally, they made the discovery in due time, but entered no protest. One day their private car was set off at Cheyenne and Post was invited to be their guest.

They told him that a man of his attainments ought to be in the big game field of the east, so the story goes, and he "fell for it." So in due time he was dabbling in stocks, which they advised him were good. He made money by a number of transactions, and then they advised the big plunge as a rare opportunity. It broke him and his Cheyenne Bank, and with it went the savings of the frugal cowpunchers.

William A. Force was put in charge of the ranch of Pole creek, and among the young fellows who went to work for him was Fred Wolt, for many years a well known resident and business man of Gering, and now ( 1920) President of the Chamber of Commerce at Norfolk, Nebraska.