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...
Martin J. “Sprout” Wardell was born Feb. 9, 1933, on the coldest night of record in Murray, Utah, near where his mother's family farmed. His parents, Martin and Alice, brought him home to his grandfather's homestead ranch at the forks of the New Fork and Green Rivers, east...
Garland (Garlie) Swain was born November 20, 1950, and joined Edna and Horace Swain and their older children, Vernon, Pam, Ron, and Julie on the Grubbing Hoe Ranch. When Garlie graduated from high school, he opted to stay on the ranch to help his mom, and the ranch is...
Sammy Sewell was born August 10, 1933, in Weston County to Tillie Bock Sewell and George Sewell. Sammy was one of seven children. He was the youngest of the Sewell boys and learned to be a cowboy at a young age. Sammy went to grade school in Osage from 1940 to 1947 and...
Frank Jay Rhodes was born August 8, 1941, in Cody. His family resided on Meeteetse Creek outside of Meeteetse. Frankie’s earliest memory of working horseback was in 1948 when he was seven years old. The last day of school in 2nd grade, he rode the bus home and his parents,...
In 1882, at the age of sixteen, Al Osterhout left his home in Wanship, Utah, to work as a cowboy for Ed Swan in Big Piney. He later worked for Daniel Budd and Hugh McKay. Al rode the toughest broncs and grew a reputation of “having a way with people and animals.” For...
Lee Moore is one of Wyoming’s true range cowboys having made three trips from Texas to Wyoming with trail herds in the mid-1800s. Moore grew up on the cattle ranges of central Texas and spent his life in the evolving world of the nineteenth-century livestock industry. Born...
Angus McPhee was born August 9, 1874, in Cheyenne. His parents were Donald and Catherine McKechnie McPhee. In 1891, he became foreman for the R.S. Van Tassel Ranch at Islay. He had gained his riding experience on his family ranch and working for the military. He was also...
Jack C. Malmberg was born in Valentine, Nebraska, in 1940. By the time he was five, his father Emil—manager of the Three Bar Ranch—expected him to work as capably as any hired hand on the 5,000-head cattle operation. With so many eligible men serving in World War II, extra...
Eldon Leithead grew up on his father’s ranch doing what most boys learn and love to do: Being a cowboy. He was horseback at a very young age and is still horseback at 82 years old. In 1968, he and his wife Georgia purchased his father’s place, where they raised their two...
As a young boy, A. D. Flores Kruse had one way to get around: on a horse. He rode his horse from the Kruse family ranch to school at Lance Creek, a 12-mile journey made before school started on Mondays and repeated after school was out on Fridays. As an only child he had...
Jerry Kennedy was born October 30, 1943, to Dot and Bill Kennedy in Laramie. Dot and Bill were attending a Halloween party at the George Dodge Ranch with the Dodge family the night Jerry was born. David Dodge would tell the story of how Dot told Bill, “We have to go, I’m...
James Felix “Jim” Johnson was born in Cheyenne in 1944 to Ed and Elizabeth Johnson. He grew up on the SS ranch in LaGrange in Goshen County. From a very young age, Jim was working cattle horseback with his family. At the age of 12, Jim’s horse Queeny came into his life....
Sonny Jarrard was born in Midwest, Wyoming, on September 26, 1940. He was the first child born to parents Harold and Katherine Jarrard. As an infant, he lived on the old Martin Frewen Ranch on the Powder River owned by his parents. Growing up the oldest child and son, he...
Kay Bischoff Hopkin was born to Eugene and Helen Bischoff on July 4, 1938, in the small town of Lovell. Kay is the third child out of nine. All the children grew up moving cattle, riding horses, fixing fence, and so much more. As Kay turned 17 in 1955, she married the love...
Wayne Graves was born on March 16, 1950. He was raised in Johnson County on Beaver Creek behind the Red Wall on the Noble Graves homestead as the fourth generation to earn a living from the family property. It was in this Red Wall Valley that he fostered his love of...
Dave Graham was born and raised on his family’s ranch near Moorcroft. He has spent his lifetime learning the trade. Dave has raised and started several of his own horses, watched his cow herd transform and grow, and has learned many cowboy skills along the way. He worked...
Born into the ranching family of O. Fred and Marion Duncan Finley, John P. Finley is dedicated to preserving Wyoming’s cowboy traditions. As a grandson in one of the earliest Dubois families, ranching is in John’s DNA and all of his work as a cowboy has been in Wyoming. ...
Gerry Dean Endecott was born August 13, 1943. He grew up on his family’s farm in Squirrel, Idaho, with his five siblings. His family raised cattle for both dairy and beef, as well as pigs. From a young age, Gerry learned the value of hard work. At four years old, he was...
Dave Clarendon’s Wyoming journey first brought him to Sheridan County in 1963, at the age of nine. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1954, the oldest of three sons. His family moved to south Florida when he was four. Dave’s father was involved with the polo...
Jesse Earl Chase was born on June 2, 1888, in Centerville, Utah, to Joseph Edwin Chase and Mary Theresa “Minnie” Perry Chase. His siblings were Charlotte “Lottie” Fletcher, Joseph LeRoy, Vera Lola Young Carr, Eleanor Ruth “Nellie” Schellenberg, James Henry, and Walter...
Earl “Tut” Camblin, born in 1950, as the oldest of three children, was his father’s right-hand man raising horses, sheep, and cattle. Tut started his first horse when he was ten years old. After graduating from high school in 1969, Tut took his dad’s advice and set out to...
Orson Behunin was born in Utah in 1908. Orson was the fifth of ten children, losing his mother when he was 10 years old. At the age of about thirteen, Orson took a job at a sawmill and also began working with his father on the Knight’s ranch in Utah. Besides fishing and...