Chris Feuz Young was born in 1954 and raised on her family’s home place near Moran. Her paternal grandparents came from Switzerland in 1910 and homesteaded in Jackson Hole. Her dad, Walter Feuz, a WCHF inductee in 2016, was born on his parent’s homestead. As a young man he bought his ranch lands in Buffalo Valley, east of Moran. Walt married Betty and they had four daughters. With no boys in the family, Chris and her sisters got to do a lot of cowboying. They spent many long days in the hay meadows using horsepower. Chris and her sisters were also involved in 4-H, fitting and showing many champion steers. Chris spent her youth and adult life helping with all ranch jobs, including haying, feeding, calving, doctoring, roping at brandings, and checking cattle on summer leases. They were involved with the fall gather with several neighboring ranches and the fall sorting on “Feuz Flat.” They all helped with preg testing cattle, shipping, and winter feeding, which was done with a four-horse team on the sleigh. All cow work was, and still is, done on horseback.
Chris had the good fortune to learn to work cattle in a quiet manner from her dad. She and her husband Jerome still live full time on the home place, running cattle with an adjoining summer lease with the Forest Service. Chris believes in working cattle horseback and is a top hand.