Hooper and others, and the Oshkosh settlement was started by John Robinson and H. G. Gumaer, Rueben Lisco had located on Rush Creek and S. P. Delatour on Blue Creek.
So, today, Mr. Delatour and Mr. Lisco are about the oldest of the "old timers." Both of them are still in the ranching business and both are successful in the banking business.
Mr. Delatour located and still lives .in Cheyenne canyon on Blue Creek, where the Indians made their last stand in Harney's Battle of Ash Hollow.
In 1885, the Bowers brothers opened up headquarters for a horse ranch about ten miles west of where Oshkosh now is located.
The south table was the first part of the county to receive much attention, the settlers working north from the main line of the Union Pacific railroad. Among the first ones were Reuben Lisco, C. M. Cowdin, who sold out in Ingraham and Coombs; Ernest Sherman, Asa Remsburg, Jacob Roudebush, John Orr. Peter Olson, Charles Olson, Chris and Cal McCormick, Henry and George Gilliard,
Dennis and Morse P. Clary. After settlements were made on the north side of the river and teaming had to be done via Chappell, the Geo. W. Hulse place was the half-way house and feeding station. William Keizer established the Kowanda postoffice in 1889, bringing the mail up from Julesburg by stage. The postoffice is still being used, the mail coming over from Chappell now. Mrs. Henry G. Smith is the present postmistress. She also carries a small stock of goods for the accommodation of its patrons.