so early was he thrust among the rough scenes
of frontier life, therein to play a man's part at an age when most boys
think of nothing more than marbles and tops. He enlisted in the Union
army before he was of age, and did his share in upholding the flag
during the Civil War as ably as many a veteran of forty, and since then
he has remained, for the most part, in his country's service, always
ready to go to the front in any time of danger. He has achieved
distinction in many and various ways. He is president of the largest
irrigation enterprise in the world, president of a colonization company,
of a town-site company, and of two transportation companies. He is the
foremost scout and champion buffalo-hunter of America, one of the
crack shots of the world, and its greatest popular entertainer. He is
broad-minded and progressive in his views, inheriting from both father
and mother a hatred of oppression in any form. Taking his mother as
a standard, he believes the franchise is a birthright which should
appertain to intelligence and education, rather than to sex. It is his
public career that lends an interest to his private life, in which he
has been a devoted and faithful son and brother, a kind and considerate
husband, a loving and generous father. "Only the names of them that
are upright, brave, and true can be honorably known," were the mother's
dying words; and honorably known has his name become, in his own country
and across the sea.

With the fondest expectation he looks forward to the hour when he shall
make his final bow to the public and retire to private life. It is his
long-cherished desire to devote his remaining years to the development
of the Big Horn Basin, in Wyoming. He has visited every country in
Europe, and has looked upon the most beautiful of Old World scenes. He
is familiar with all the most splendid regions of his own land, but to
him this new El Dorado of the West is the fairest spot on earth.

He has already invested thousands of dollars and given much thought and
attention toward the accomplishment of his pet scheme. An irrigating
ditch costing nearly a million dollars now waters this fertile region,
and various other improvements are under way, to prepare a land
flowing with milk and honey for the reception of thousands of homeless
wanderers. Like the children of Israel, these would never reach the
promised land but for the untiring efforts of a Moses to go on before;
but unlike the ancient gu