People of the Bad Lands Cow Boy
More than 1,800 people turn up in The Bad Lands Cow Boy: ranchers and cowboys, saloon keepers and storekeepers, lawmen, railroad men, visitors and neighbors. Each is matched across the paper's many spellings and linked to every item that mentions them.
Medora's who's who
The editor, A. T. Packard, appears in more than 330 items. The Marquis de Morès, Medora's founder, appears in nearly 200. Howard Eaton, the cattleman who called the first stockmen's meeting, E. G. Paddock, Joseph Ferris, Gregor Lang and round-up foreman John Goodall all turn up week after week, along with Roosevelt's partners Sylvane Ferris and Bill Merrifield of the Maltese Cross and Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dow of the Elkhorn.
The 454 people the paper mentions most have short bios. Each bio is written only from what the Cow Boy printed, and was checked against the full items, so it shows how Medora saw its own people. Spellings follow the paper. Where it gives only a surname that could be more than one person, the entry says so.
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