Doug Wallingford was born in 1955 to Norman and Pat Wallingford in Thermopolis. He attended Hot Springs County schools and graduated in 1974. From an early age, Doug was immersed in the ranching lifestyle, learning the value of hard work, responsibility, and horsemanship...
Rene’ Vyvey was the 9th child born July 21, 1916, on the VX homestead ranch near Encampment to Belgian immigrants Charles and Emma Vyvey. He was rarely without a horse in his life. His dad taught his children how to breed, raise, train, and sell their Belgian and Percheron...
Born into the Martens ranching family of Weston County, Susie Martens Vore has been a cowgirl and a rancher since her earliest days. Her love for horses, cattle, and her dogs is as rich as the stewardship she has for the land that she cares for. Visitors to her Double...
Bob Tarver is a true American cowboy in many ways, but there are qualities that distinguish him from the rest. Bobby Lynn Tarver was born June 11, 1940, in Sheridan, to Lynn and Bernice (Robinson) Tarver. He was the older of two Tarver sons that would prove to be two of...
Richard Virgil Talley was a cowboy, or “Cow Puncher” as his military records defined his occupation. Other occupations listed through his life included drilling water wells, farming, and laboring with a bridge building project. But through most of his life, he worked...
Doyle Slagowski was born in 1910 at Smithfork east of Mountain View and was the fourth of nine children. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Henry’s Fork, where his dad homesteaded. He first went to school on Henry’s Fork. The schoolhouse was about three miles...
Warren M. Robertson was born in January 1923 to James and Beth Robertson in Jackson. His grandparents and great uncles and great aunts were some of the earliest settlers in the Jackson Hole valley. Warren was raised on his parents’ ranch south of town until the ranch was...
Dianne Boroff: Dianne Roberts Boroff was born March 10, 1951, to Dick and Leona Roberts and raised on the family ranch on Horse Creek near Merna, Wyoming. She grew up alongside her siblings Dru, Louis, Jenny, Zac, and D’Lisa, immersed from a very young age in the daily...
Alice Platt Nation was born in Laramie, to Wayne and Georgia Platt. They brought her home to the Platt Ranch near Encampment, where she attended school and graduated. She spent her formative years following in her parents' footsteps helping them with all the cattle work,...
Donald Bruce Murray was born in Ipswich, South Dakota, to Don and Elaine Murray on May 19, 1952. Later two sisters were born. Bruce's parents weren't ranchers, but his grandparents and uncles were ranchers and farmers. He spent every summer with them, and this is where...
James Mickelson was born in Tinning ,Denmark on August 1, 1866. His name before being Americanized was Jens Mikkelsen -- meaning Jens, son of Mickkel. His father, Mikkel Rasmussen, was a soldier in the war between Denmark and Germany. Mikkel and Ella had four children:...
James McCormick (Mac) was born to Les and Margaret McCormick in the spring of 1957. At that time, his parents were employed by the Warren Livestock Company near Cheyenne, Wyoming. He joined five-year-old sister, Jean. The McCormick family moved to the Willow Creek Ranch...
John Luman was born October 4, 1838, in Ohio, the oldest child or James and Martha Luman. He was living in Kansas at age 16 during 1854 and was employed at Fort Bridger, Wyoming in 1859. He worked two years for Judge W.A. Carter at Fort Bridger. In 1861, he was at North...
Gladwon David Thomas Jensen was born June 23, 1909, to Martin “Metinus” Jensen and Hannah P. Dodd Jensen on the Jensen Ranch on Muddy Creek near Olson, Wyoming. His siblings were Clarence (Huckelberry) Jensen, Fred “Ted” (Huckelberry) Jensen, James J. Jensen, Rennard...
Alonzo Raymond “Lunk” Jarvie was born in Rock Springs, to Thomas B. and Alice Finch Jarvie on July 14, 1931. He was the youngest of six children and the only child born in the hospital. He was named after an Uncle, Alonzo “Lonnie” Finch, who was killed in France in World...
Norman “Buck” Holmes was born in Cheyenne in 1941 to parents Keith and Myra Holmes and had an older sister Myra Lou. He earned the nickname “Buck” as he was as large as a buck deer when he was born. His grandparents had homesteaded land north of Cheyenne in 1910 and his...
Eudjere Hickey was born December 17, 1892, in Lonetree, and lived the life of a true working cowboy from boyhood through his later years. He grew up on the ranch at Lonetree on Henry’s Fork during the open-range era, when a good hand depended on a good horse, a steady...
Maurice H. Henry was born February 11, 1918, to William (Will) and Bessie Mae Hayward (Mae) Henry at the family's home on the old Brewster Place just east of Millburne, Wyoming. This rural community is in Bridger Valley, south of Fort Bridger in Uinta County. Maurice was...
Afton was born May 17, 1893, the 10th of 13 children, eight girls and five boys. Afton’s father came to Wyoming in 1887 in a covered wagon with five children and a wife. After settling and starting a ranch eight more children were born to this union. At a very young age...
Dick Graham was born and raised a cowboy in the heart of cattle country on Inyan Kara Creek in Crook County. Dick was known by many for his keen eye for good cattle, fast stout horses, hands that knew how to work, and most importantly his kind heart and love for his family...
Alexander Marshall Gilchrist, Jr. was born March 16, 1931, in Kemmerer, to Alexander Marshall Gilchrist, Sr. and Catherine Elizabeth Mantle Gilchrist. His siblings were Jacketta Mantle Gilchrist Scarborough and Margaret Charlotte Gilchrist Mickelson. His nicknames were...
Thomas F. George, known to most simply as Tommy, was born in 1939 into a fifth-generation Wyoming pioneer family. His grandfather was Emanual “Crazy Horse” George, an early Wyoming Pioneer. One of three sons born to Fred “Buzz” and Joyce George, Tommy spent his early years...
The title “Cowboy” gets tossed around far too freely these days, whether the person deserves it or not—but Clarence “Tuffy” Davis earned every inch of what that title truly means. To earn it, a cowboy’s life isn’t defined by rodeos, owning a ranch, riding horses or...
When Dennis Brooks was born into a family of cowboys described as “hard, mean, drinking, Marlboro smoking while chewing Copenhagen, blue heeler at their heels, fist fighting tough, flat broke cowboys.” Dennis was bound to be one of them. Before Dennis Brooks started first...
Mark, Bob, and Larry Anderson grew up on the Anderson family ranch on the Henry’s Fork near McKinnon, in Sweetwater County. They are 4th generation Wyoming stockmen. In 1917 their grandfather, John Clifton (Cliff) Anderson, and his bride Roena moved to their homestead east...