. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . veled overthe plains between here and Texas said this was the best country for rangingstock to be found anywhere in the United States. No wonder, then, that theymade such a hard struggle to retain it. \Miere once roamed tliousands ofbuffalo and afterwards thousands of cattle we noAv see the locomotivesteaming along the valleys. The country is now dotted over with beautifulfarms and the ground that was once used for bedding down cattle in immenseherds is now occupied by the village of Callaway. Re
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . veled overthe plains between here and Texas said this was the best country for rangingstock to be found anywhere in the United States. No wonder, then, that theymade such a hard struggle to retain it. \Miere once roamed tliousands ofbuffalo and afterwards thousands of cattle we noAv see the locomotivesteaming along the valleys. The country is now dotted over with beautifulfarms and the ground that was once used for bedding down cattle in immenseherds is now occupied by the village of Callaway. Relics of unusual interest have at ditferent times been found in thiscountry. In the sunmier of 1880, while riding on the Middle Loup, withothers, we came to a bed of charred wood near where the Milburn bridge nowcrosses that stream. A number of beads were scattered about, and uponcloser examination we found among the coals the under jaw of a man, andalso a silver medal two and a half inches in diameter with a hole in it. Onone side was the bust of a man, with the name, Pierre Choteau, under CO g o-a CO 03 AND SHORT SKECTHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 17 while on the other side were the words: Upper Missouri Outfit. Our sup-position was that some Indian ti-ader had been in that country trading beadsand other trinkets to the Indians for furs, and that they had gotten into aquarrel and that the savages had killed and burned the trader. (HafflB 3iitmitfry in KancI; ^ay^. H. M. SULLIVAN. In the early settlement of Custer county, there was but one occupationof sufficient importance to raise it to the dignity that would justify it beingdesignated a business. This was the cattle industry. While the area ofCuster county, then, as now, was 2,592 square miles, or larger than the stateof Delaware, and more than twice the area of Rhode Island, still, this vastarea was claimed by a few ranchmen who in a way occupied the greater partof it. The great advantages of this county as a grazing
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