Dicky sold out to Wright a short time afterwards. His brother, Jonathan Brown, built the cabin at the Four-J spring, east of Wildcat, and he made final proof on the land.

John Wright's ranch became the center of affairs for a number of years on the valley of the Pumpkin. Will Kelly located near him, and then came Earley, and Livingstons, who secured a postofhce and built a story and a half grout house, where the first settlers enjoyed many a social evening. Wrights and Livingstons led all the rest when it came to roundup dances and social festivities, before the grangers came and submerged the older order of things.

Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dicky Brown, which were the first wdiite children born in that section. They both died early and are buried on the home claim. Bess Kelly was the first white child born on Pumpkin creek that lived to maturity. She is nowdead. Her brother, Ted, still has the old place where he was born.

The cow business had its run for about twenty years. But the first domestic cow in western Nebraska, was that which William Sublette trailed after his wagon in the trapper days, when he drove the first wagons into the mountains. When he met Fitzpatrick, and necessity required more speed than they were regularly making, they turned the cow loose, near the present site of Morrill, and she became the first range cow in the Panhandle of the state. That was before Fort William, the antecedent of Fort Laramie, was built.