Some of the most important companies and ranchmen with their holdings are as follows : Adams, Redington & Co., six thousand head ; Codd Brothers, five thousand head ; Creighton Herd, three thousand head ; Tusler Brothers, thirty-five hundred head; Pratt & Ferris, three thousand head ; Bostler & Irwin, twenty-five hundred head ; Bostler & Lawrence, two thousand head ; other men who had large numbers were Maybury, C. A. Moore, Harkinson & Griffin ; Thomas Kane. D.

B. Lynch, H. Newman, Callihan & Murshied,

C. McCarty, Walrath Brothers, Robert Howard, Jesse Montgomery, Merchant & Wheeler.

First Events of Interest

The first white child born in Cheyenne county was Fanny Fisher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher of Sidney. She was born in 1869, as her parents had come to the county some time previously.

The first cemetery was started when it was found necessary to bury a white man killed by the Indians.

A log hut served as the first store building in Sidney and was built by a man called "French Louis." It was located about four miles south of the present town site, but when a station was established at Sidney on the railroad, he moved the store to the town. Most of the stock of goods at that day consisted of necessary supplies and whiskey.

In 1868, Charles Moore built a frame hotel, store and saloon, and about the same time Thomas Kane built the second frame store building and became the first postmaster of Sidney.