. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . gal, and FrankH. Young, the temporary clerk, held over. At that time there were threevoting places in the county, all of them being on the South Loup river. For 14 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY several years the cattlemen had evervthiny,- their own war, but witli the influxof homesteaders the cattlemen were soon outnumbered, and by 1880 were rep-resented by a minority on the board of commissioners. One of the interesting- characters of this region at that time was LouisWambsgan. one of the vev
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . gal, and FrankH. Young, the temporary clerk, held over. At that time there were threevoting places in the county, all of them being on the South Loup river. For 14 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY several years the cattlemen had evervthiny,- their own war, but witli the influxof homesteaders the cattlemen were soon outnumbered, and by 1880 were rep-resented by a minority on the board of commissioners. One of the interesting- characters of this region at that time was LouisWambsgan. one of the vevy earliest settlers, who located near where Ocontouow^ stands. His house was the only stopping place for a number of yearsbetween Plum creek and the South Loup, and there was hardly a night the3ear around but that two or three cowboys could not be found at Louies,as he was familiarly called. He could always furnish sport for the boys insome waj, and his annual turkey shoots during the holidays became famousthroughout this region. 1 have heard many a good story told under Louieshospitable Frederick Schreyer, first Homesteader in Triumph Tp. Settled 1875. Frederick Schreyer was another interesting character. He was the firsthomesteader on the South Loup between Callaway and Arnold. He was avery resolute German, about fifty years of age, and as eccentric as he was res-olute. He constructed a dugout in which he imagined he would be securefrom the depredations of the festive cowboy. As we have said before, therewas a natural antipathy between the cowboys and the settlers and the breachbecame wider and wider as time passed by and the settlers became moie nu-merous. Armed encounters were frequent and bloodshed was often the often had encounters with the cowboys and at one time waswounded in two places. He thought he was going- to die, and had CharlesKockwood draw up his will. He had a ford near his house which he called AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRAS
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