Talbert apparently decided to join in homing making, and as brought out at Nunn's trial, he made the suggestion and induced Nunn to' join him in killing a range beef. There was no dispute as to fact, but the question of the value would settle the sentence, whether a fine or the penitentiary. Talbert was the expert witness for the cattlemen who wanted the accused "sent over the road." Judge Isaac Woolf, tangled the detective's testimony, who in fact, was not an expert, but Woolf was. To the general satisfaction of grangers, Nunn was released.

Bonanza Days

The bonanza days and big profits in Sidney occurred during the Black Hills rush. Then Colt's revolvers sold for forty dollars and everything else in proportion. Freighters who figured loads at two tons per mule or ox, cursed picks and shovels as "bulky freight." There was not room on a wagon to put the customary ten tons. Two wagons trailing behind ten mules were supposed to carry twenty tons -- two tons to the mule.

Back to Normal

The lean years of the early nineties, broke many cattlemen, and the grangers were "not yet upon their feet." Intense privation and heart-aches covered the broad acres of Cheyenne county. The prices of merchandise dropped very low in Sidney and elsewhere. Brilliant financiers and politicians call it back to normal, and helpless mortals echo the apology

for the crime of financial depression, from time to time.

The New Order

Raising of wheat has changed the business of the county which has been settled by farmers and small ranchers and Cheyenne county is today one of the productive areas of the state.