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                    <text>Addenda, June 1973: by R B Blackmore , Casper
Rufus Rahodes owned the 07 ranch, it was also a road ranch,
catering to people traveling "on the road".My mother said
she has seen "Cattle Kate" (Ella Watson, who assumed the
name Kate Maxwell - later hanged) there and she was rather
oretty and well conducted. (My mother and father lived for
a short time at the 07 on their arrival in Wyoming)
The well, dug for water in the center of Bessemer was dry
so water had to be hauled from the Noteh Platte River.

Also the "oil well" promoted by Charlie Peterson was dry
It apparently went only a few hundred feet.(bailings from
the well are still visible June 3, 1973) (85 years later)
I still have deeds to Blackmores for Bessemer lots.
Kamon bought tax deed, leased suface to Snodgrass for 25
yeaas, he farms it. I leased from t*Saigon2C for oil 1969
along with some 10,000 acres
The sardine cans - remained until Snodgrass cleared the
land and started farming it about 1965 - he was quite
pleases to read this article of their origin - there were MANY.

Hazel Peterson, the author , is grand daughter of Charles
Peterson and in 1954 was a geologist for Seaboard Oil CO.,
in Dallas, Texas.

Peterson promoted the well amogg friends in Ogallala add
Omaha, Neb.

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                    <text>WARRANTY DEED.

REPUBLICAN LEGAL BLANK WORK. GENEVA. NEQ.

THIS IfiSTRUMEfiT WITMESSETH:
That THE WYOMING IMPROVEMENT COMPANY,(a corporation created and existing under the laws
of the State of Nebraska),aud.PA3.9x1. Xo...tpaasacX. .basiiisss..ill. .tlxc..Terr.i.toiy
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for and in consideration of

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in hand paid, do hereby grant, bargain,sell, convey, and confirm unto

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nmand StBteTOfx'Xi'i J.-T.QPr.i to .IT/. •O.'f.

in the County of

the following described Real Estate situated in

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according to the recorded plat thereof; and we do hereby covenant with the said

■iXsand (Stilts) Territory of

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-.heirs and assigns that we are lawfully seized of said premises; that they are

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free from incumbrance; that we have good right and lawful authority to sell and convey the same and we do hereby

covenant to warrant and defend the title to said premises against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.

In testimony whereof THE AVYOMING IMPROVEMENT COMPANY has hereunto set its seal, and caused
the same to be signed by itt^,.77 ... . President and countersigned by its Secretary thiSf-nUv.&lt;rr-

..... , a. D. 18^.9.- before me, aCl ftPA. .01. .tb.9. .Ui tU.Ei.Q t.duly
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.in and for said County, personally appeared
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. who is personally known to me to be the

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President of THE

WYOMING IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, described in the foregoing instru­
ment, and acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be his voluntary act
and deed, and the voluntary act and deed of said WYOMING IMP-ROVE.MENT
COMPANY. Witness my hand and official seal on the day last above written.

Clerk of the District Court,

�THE STATE OP NEBRASKA,

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&gt; ss.

I,

...............

County. )

County Clerk and Clerk of the District Court, within and for said county, the same being a court of record, do
hereby certify, that the annexed instrument is executed and proved, or acknowledged in due form, according to the
laws of the State of Nebraska, to entitle it to be recorded therein. Also, that

........ ............................... before whom the same was proved and acknowledged, was, at the time
of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a
............................. in and for said county, duly qualified
and authorized to take the same. And I further certify,that I am well acquainted
with the hand writing of the said
........................... ' ..'.... .. 7.

and verily believe the signature to the said Certificate of Acknowledgment is
genuine. Witness my hand and seal of said Court, at
this

day of

A. D. 188....

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                    <text>BESSEMER

Location
beacuse rr survey
also oil &amp; mining
Wyo Territory
Carbon County
Promoters - Nebraska
No of lots sold to all
"
to Blackmores &amp; deeds
Peterson - wedding china
Desperately poor - attempted holdup at tent
Fuel from Goose Egg Mtn,
Logs &amp; lumber from Casper Mtn
Lime kiln
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Lots went for taxes
Rydy Kamon bought them
GeZbrge Snodgrass bought &amp; is farming
Picture of old well (
Picture of town
Water hauled from river
Stage from Casper
geterson et al oil well
Our folks log &amp; lumber building - 5 rooms, then leanto.
Traded with Indians
Helped an Indian who had been on alkali water - later helped dad
find Alwexander Cox near Fort Washakie

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The well, dug In the center of town, did not produce water
80 it was hau led in barrels from the North Platte River.
Horses were used for this as well as for a stage line to
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WYOMING- TERRITORY

PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, from Natrona County records,
transferred from Carbon County books.

Deeds from WYOMING IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, a Nebraska
corporation, of Fillmore County, V.C.(?) Shickley,
President, (copied by R 3 Blackmore)

BLOCK LOTS
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6
2
2
2
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4
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BUYER
James Lannon
J F Duncan
James Lannon
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city of Casper
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J F duncan
James Lannon
Wilhalm Mosenthlon ^50
James Lannon
W A Blackmore, deed 29::Aug. 1839
not recorded, but the
deed Is still in my files
James Lannon
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W A Blackmore,deed June 7, I890
not recorded
Minnie A Blackmore, deed March 19, 1889
Book W, Page 33 recorded May 11 1889
Minnie A Blackmore, deed Oct. 17, 1883
registered May 11 1839, Book W of
deeds. Page 32, Carbon County,
Wyoming Territory
Jam§s Lannon 1 interest
J F Duncan
$150,00
James Lannon
If
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Emil Hoffmelster
James Lannon

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All lots were sold for taxes &amp; later bought by Rudolph Kamon,
leased by Kamon to Snodgrass (25 yrs) Apr.1 1956 (surface only)
Oil &amp; Gas Lease from Rudolph &amp; Isabel Kamon to R 3 Balckmore
(5 years)
12 November, 1969. I assigned to Royal Resources,
Denver. This NEi sec. 4 -32N-81 W was a patented Oil Placer Claim.

�BESSEMER - WYOMING TERRITORY - CARBON COUNTY
Bessemer was undoubtedly named because of the red color
of surrounding, or nearby hills, supposedly containing
and colored by iron.
Sir Henry Bessemer invented the
process of makihS steel from cast iron, (bessemer process).

The Wyoming Improvement Company, of Fillmore County, Nebraska
(see town of Shikley, as a Shickley was president of company)
named it.
See "There’s History in Barbed Wire" page 28, in Histotorlcal
Section of Casper Star-Tribune, 49th Annual edition,
March 19, 1967.
The land, the NEi of Section 4, Township 32 North, Range
81 West of 6th Brlnclpal Meridian, was located as an Oil
Placer Claim, the only method then in use for acquiring
potential oil producing rights, and later patented by the
3 claimants (names on record but not copied by me).
Lots were sold and a very small village was built, in which
my father, Walter A. "Doc" Blackmore, ("Doc" fpr D. because
he was a pharmacist) built a drugstore building from native
logs and lumber, (with a leanto shed for residence) and
operated it - sometimes trading medicines to Indians for
clubs, moccasins, etc. which are now in the State Museum,
in Douglas - until a re-survey of the proposed railroad
was changed to build it some 12 miles to the northeast.

The town was then abandoned and Blackmore went to work as a
ranch hand (he knew nothing of livestock or ranching) and
later tore doun the building and used the material to build
a house on Lot 18, Block 5 in the town of Casper.
He lived
becoming
rancher,
business

in Casper until his death ®n April 20, 1923,
mayor, an important businessman, real estate owner
builder of several houses, 2 apartment houses,
buildings, etc

After Blackmore went broke - along with other Bessemer
residents - he also contracted to do the annual assessment
work for others on the many oil placer claims around the
country.
An expenditure of $100.00 per claim per year was
required to validate such claims, and recording in county
records notices of such work.
In my files is a photograph of a well being drilled for oil
in NEi NEt NWi 4-32-31 by Charles Peterson in 1388. The only
person identifiable is W A Blackmore, driving his buckboard
and team of buggy-mulesi shown in foreground. He apparently
was proud of the mules as he mentioned them to me several

Bob Blackmore June 1973
Balings from the well are still visible today.!

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                    <text>getting "hirri drunk. Seeing that j to move to the Eastern Star Home *
than the present-day water well. Charlie was usually an obliging j in Arlington, where she is affec- f?
A number of people both in Bes­ friend and his home conveniently I tionately known as Grandmother r
semer and in Nebraska joined in nearby, the citizens rolled the and is one of the oldest of the lodge'
partnership with Charlie in his oil drunk official over to the Peterson home residents. She has been a;
placer mining claims. Among those home and deposited him in Agnes’ member of the lodge for 52 years,
filing with him in the Bessemer bed. Upon finding him there. Ag­ being very active in the organiza- ?
area were; His wife, Agnes, John nes naturally objected most stren­ tion wherever she lived. In her
A. O’Brian, P. T, Hoxiet, Frank uously and ran the crowd—com­ new home, she enjoys the numer- '
Rider and Amanda Rider (Agnes’ plete with drunk—out of her house. OUS parties which are held and the
si.ster), E. M. Searle (his Ogallala Another celebrating drunk mean­ popular wrestling matches avail- S
banking friend) and Eliza Searle, while,, resentful of the new femi- able on TV. When the weather perC. W. Wixcey (St. Paul newspaper nine regime at the polls, beat up mils, she visits members of her x
editor who married Charlie’s niece the electioneering Mrs. Rhode—^her family in Dallas and Houston, but^
Amelia Frederickson). Another husband being ill in bed and unable refuses to make visits “permagroup of partners consisted of: W. to take care of her. Despite all this nent,” preferring the “hotel’’ at-,'
A, and M. A. Blackmore, W. and confusion, however, Agnes Peter­ mosphere of the lodge home.
C. N. Blackmore, A. and M. Reas- son will still proudly tell you she When her son Howard returned
ner, L. M. and J. E. Line, C. E. managed to go to the polls three from Bessemer this summer with,
Frederickson (possibly Charlie’s times and vote for her favorite Dr. bits of household articles he found j
Amelia), and H. M. Jones. Also: Barber, who was elected the first at the site of the old home cellar,
A. H. Swigart, J. E. Sims, L. A. governor of Wyoming.
she quickly recognized the chips ot­
! Wiley, George H. Johnson and " Other excited voters followed Ag­ her wedding china, long lost or
Prances Johnson, John Hilton, Lew nes’ example, and when the re­ broken up Also among the sou-'
Anderson, C. H. Ford, M. M. turns were counted, Bessemer had venirs were the base of a heavy •
Neaves, F. C. Powers (from Ogal­ won the county seat over Casper. glass, turned pale violet by expo-Ai
lala) and E. R. Brisch—an anoth­ Unfortunately, the county commis­ sure to the sun, and the brown'
er group.
sioners court Investigated the re­ glass of a wine bottle which Char­
PILED CLAIMS
sults more thoroughly and discov­ lie was wont to stock in the cellar.
Claims were filed for 160 acres ered that Bessemer had more votes A child’s crushed play tea pot of
each (one quarter section) of “oil and citizens—thereby invalidating tic was still recognizable, as were
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placer mining ground situated in returns and sending the county seat the metal wick parts which Agnes
Casper mining district. Carbon to Casper,
thought came from the kerosene
County, Wyoming Territory.” Typ­ Along in 1890, Indians in the area, lamp with its huge round chimney.
ical names given claims in the who were allowed off the reserva­ After their move to Texas, Agnes
Bessemer area were’.Dandy, En­ tions to hunt in spring and fall, never went back to -Wyoming—but
terprise, Elkhorn, Dan Stone, became increasingly bitter at see­ she looks back often. ■ Moonlight, Star No. 1 and No. 2, ing their hunting grounds destroyed “Those were the happy days,**
Julesburg, Snowbird No. 1 through. by the cattlemen and, along with. she sighs, “we had so much fun.**
No. 8, Dansk Oil Placer, Edison, ’ their %ther grievances, brokT^uJ^
! Blue Stone, Dag Oil Placer, Den- of the reservations on the warpath.
! mark Oil Placer, Standart, and Big The government issued guns and
stone
Stone Placer.
Placer.
am.munition to settlers in the
In another grouD oneration the threatened areas and warned them
Salt Creek Oil Co. &lt;con^sted of- to prepare for attack. 'The Besse7 Charles Schultz, Patrick O’Rourke nier settlers decided to move to
I and J. J. Worley. This company the stone-housed Goose Egg Ranch
had claims to the north of Besse- and there be in position to throw
I m.er, in the area which now in­ up
barricades for protection. SincoJ
cludes the famous Salt Creek Field.
was away on one of his]
! Claims in this area were called; Charlie
business expeditions, Walter BlackD-errick Eagle, Abbot Lode, Graph- more
wired him advising that Ag-i
! ite, Empire, Splendid, Platte, Take
and their children should bes
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sent back to C®a,ha for safety andS
i Proof and Bell.
that Mrs. Blackmore might go alsoB
! The settlers continued to flock if thesituation became worse.
'
to Bessemer as long as it appeared The Peterson horses were near­
! the railroad spur was going there. ly all turned out on the prairie,
When, instead, it headed westward which was lush with grazing grass?’
from Casper, the latter town be­ Agnes
pony, however, was ‘
gan flourishing at Bessemer’s ex- given ’ toriding
her close friend, Minnie
[ pense, and a heavy rivalry devel- Blackmore.
sold some of the
' oped between the two towns. Elec- furniture toAgnes
her neighbors for
: tion fever was running high when ready cash to travel
since Char­
• Wyoming held its first state elec­ lie was still too faron,
away to help
tion, and both Casper and Besse­
Those goods that were pack­
mer fought to get the county seat. her.
able were made ready for ship­
The women’s suffrage movement ment.
Most of their belongings,'
was in full swing with Mrs. Rhode
of Bessemer running for one of however, were left with friends,
including Charlie’s old roll-top desk
, the county offices.
Election poll headquarters were and the wagon which were given
Walter Blackmore. Early one
in a new frame building, sched­ to
uled to be a saloon. Some of the morning, Agnes went to the livery ,
" “suffering” husbands, worried as barn and paid “Daddy” Eads $1# ■
to how the new vote would be used, or $15 to drive the family, now to­
i d’scovered a loose knothole in the taling four children, to Casper.
building and promptly pushed it From Casper she traveled by train
out in order that they might as­ tack to Omaha, where Amelia Fre­
certain how their wives voted. Ag- derickson joined her. Shortly aft- ■
res and Charlie Peterson disagreed erwards, the soldiers arrived to
upon the livery stable owner, Eads, protect the Wyoming settlers and
who was granting free rides to the the situation was put under control '
polls in anticipation of a county before much damage was done, at
office. Agnes respected Eads, but least in the Bessemer area.
felt that his education was short of From Omaha, the Petersons
that needed for the office. As she moved very shortly to Texas,
prepared to mark her ballot for, where Charlie resumed his land
the opposing candidate, she heard brokerage business and followed
a muffled voice groan, “Uh, the early salt dome boom along
UNH!!”, and each time she bent the Gulf Coast. He passed away in .
down to her choice, the groan was Houston in 1925, almost as well;^., .
repeated. Since she was alone in known there as in his earlier^,^,^
the room, she could not understand towns.
it until she spied an eye peeking LIVES IN TEXAS
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at her through the knothole—where­ Agnes is now a spry young
upon she marched into the election nearly 94, living near Gallas. After
judges and demanded that they her husband’s death, she lived for^,,' '
(cover the hole so Charlie would not many years with one of her daugh-i ” .
ters, but tiring of this, she decided
be there instructing her vote!
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•‘rpHAT’S my wedding china!” she I idly about the station and, as she Ogallala, then the C. H. Ford fam-ways of a corner of the room?
exclaimed, reaching for the small stood there petrified, the train
Omaha, and the George then she carefully pulled down the
glass chip with its delicate brown pulled out leaving her alone with "lohnson family also from Ogal- shades and locked the door behind
laia. Another settler was a livery her—so that stray Indians would
pattern—and time rolled back 67 her babies—and several -----yet stable owner known as “Daddy” not see the children left alone in
years for petite, gray-haired Agnes to await Charlie’s arrival.hours
The
In-Eads
—Mrs. Peterson remembers the house. Coming back from the
Peterson. She was an attractive dians stared admiringly at the his daughter,
Fannie, whom she Goose Egg Ranch with a heavy
; young matron with three small chil­ long,
blonde hair piled upon her thinks married a ■very fine young bucket of. milk, Agnes heard the
dren when her husband, Charles head and,
she was due to cattleman from the east named children laughing gleefully. CautiPeterson, decided to forsake bank­ be scalped,certain
dashed for the Spears. Since the Peterson home ously opening the door, she noted
ing for "prospecting” in Wyoming. only shelter Agnes
in sight—the station iw'.s at Broadway and Fifth Streets a chair piled on the table beside
Dissatisfied with the family’s master’s private office and tele-many of the other Nebraska fam-the cupboard, and all three boys
choice ot a shoemaking career, graph desk. ’There, despite all pleas ilies also built on Broadway. A at individual tasks. The oldest had
! “Charlie” Peterson left Copenha­ from the distressed agent and nu- postoffice was eventually built on her fine cedar bucket with the
gen at about 14 and began sailing 1 merous quotations of railroad reg- the lot adjoining the Petersons. brass bands (out of which he had
; around the world on a Danish ship, | ulations forbidding the trespassing, c. H. Ford arrived in Bessemer dipped the water) and was rugged­
working his W’ay, Tired of .ship! she refused to budge until Charlie to find no empty beds available ly stirring fresh eggs, shells and
work and curious about the New! ^came_^ the rescue.------------------- so he went to Eads’ stable to pro­ all. The second oldest had man­
World, he came to the States as
In Glenrock, all accommodations ®dre a bale of hay and slept on it. aged to get a fire going in the wood
an immigrant late in his teens
and was peeking into the
about 1869, and began working on were crowded, but they located a I^o later built a home against the stove
new apartment building, its frame- side of a hill, braced with timbers oven at his share of the eggs lust■ ■ . The youngest was
a large
Iowa farm
and rcduy
ready lUi
for bricking,
“"o topped by dirt—so it was cool “Y cooking.
■■ir,,
—
Al. near Davenport.
**'
b. work
WUIIS. up
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-------------------------------------------xin the summer and snug in the sprawled on the floor, the wash
farmer’s wife, buflhe
irts'ida 5111ti&lt;5iently
basin between his legs, beating
taught Charlie his English and the cd for occupancy. “
The Petersons H'inter.
continne^^V”’’^®^ education. He Stayed aa week, then
men traveled in
George Johnson, who had a res- eggs with his hands and ripping
•man-,7 T.?
educate himself in their wagon to
.. Mrs.-. Gothberg’s taurant in Ogallala, eventually the mess all over the carpet. Mrs.
many ways, however, having an place on the south side ot North opened one at the Goose Egg Blackmore arrived in time to resseveral for- ^latte River,
luver, where
wuere they
mcy spem
me Ranch, where his son helped him. cue the youngest and carried him
spent the
and fnn
frequently
act- pigiit. The next day they. drove to His wife passed away after only off to her house for a bath. The
ing
as
internrptz&gt;r
tnIng
interpreter for the govern­ Eufus Rhode’s place, also bn the a short time in Bessemer.
others were soundly spanked, and
ment.
south side of the river (and near
Walter Blackmore had been own­ then Agnes started working on the
I- ,
Bouin
Union
^®"^®sent for the present-day Goose Egg Inn), er of a large drugstore in Ogallala, carpet with soap suds and broom­
vember laid
mjS?’‘^*’0 spring wagon used for this so he built one in Bessemer also. using the precious water hauled
vember,
persuading
several trip was a type of buckboard drawn --ne
The xcai
rear ux
of me
the amre
store provinea
provided asas- from the river in barrels. (Not long
bnaf
In n 1884,
« o rSrs
’dC-ing s.,v&lt;,i„l
enme
families by two horses—no top. but with saying quarters for Charlie Peter- afterward, the town dug a com­
.r
“x®?.
settle two seats across it in front, Charlie son. This ex-banker W’ould come munity well, which allowed freer
the ..“UP” .lands
. of- the midwest.
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■ p5ed it later to take men out sight- back from the mountains with a use of water for the townspeople.)
He tlien Joined H. L McWilliams seeing in the Bessemer area. ’The sack full of rocks and hand them The Goose Egg Ranch stood near
and E. M.. Searle in a -partnership. two horses were driven from Ogal- one by one to Blackmore for test- the present-day Red Buttes stone
monument, erected in 1930 to mark,
which liuilt the First Keith County laia. and two more w'ere later ‘ing.
National Bank in Ogallala, Neb. bought in Wyoming.
“You think this one Is gold—yes, the Oregon Trail. Mrs. Clark, th'*
The First'National Bank was also The melting sncws and spring ‘Doc’?” Charlie would ask, “Or owner’s wife, always had a won­
derful dinner party at ’Thanksgiv­
built, but one of the bank officials rain made the Norf. Platte too tt**? one?”
No, Charlie,” Blackmore would ing and Christmas for the Ogallala
developed typhoid fever, thereby full
ferry or skiff was
delaying the opening and divert-,usually
- used,
• - *but■ a wooden
’ «bridge
—
sold, and would drop families and the Fords—too long
she had lived in the wilderness
V
crosses it.) There were othlast sample onto the table.
without neighbors and she wel­
•
ws at the Rhodc’s house, however, discovered COAL
On
was one of the “Roa’ Ranches’
“ one of these excursions, how- comed the newcomers. She always
and was the 22nd member and a It
taking paying guests, and the Pe- ever, Charlie uncovered a coal vein made a huge cake topped with
Master Mason. As a result of his tersons acquired t.ie living
■
room. which provided fuel for the Peter' v/hipped cream which she served
many successful business activities Charlie and family ■■were
the sons and the Blackmon s. Its loca­. to th^-guests,. In _the wintertime,
and his friendly personality. Char- ranch a 'iw : lonths, during at
her two daughters were away at
which tion is now forgotten.
lie became both wealthy and well- time Agnes decided she had
to
The lime kiln still standing inI Cheyenne in school, but summers
kno'wn, prior to leaving Nebraska have more rooi for three active
the side of the mountains beyondI they went to the various homes of
' for Wyoming.
iChildren. Mr. Rhode then white­ Rhode’s place was built about thisi Bessemer to help their neighbors,
His wife was Agnes Willman washed and fixed up a bunkhouse, time—even now it is ready for use, iicluding Agnes, with household
Lawrence, bom 1861 in Steelville, 'since it was off-season for the cow- with wood placed for the next user.. tasks.
111., one of the younger of a large iboys and W'a unoccupied. *
Contrary to popular tradition, iti DRILLED FOR OIL
pioneer family, but orphaned at an [BUILT FIRST HOUSE
was not a natural kiln—Peterson Charlie Peterson''^s interests In
early age. She attended school in The Petersons at last crossed the and Blackmore were among thoseI! Wyoming
lay in more than prosIllinois and Neola, la.—in addition
went up the bluff, and about responsible for its construction,. pecting for gold. Just previous to
, to traveling weekly to a nearby river,
a mile from the Goose Egg Ranch W'ith Ford among those actually' the move to Bessemer, Charlie was
; town for oil painting lessons from they
the first house in Besse­ doing the labor. Agnes PetersonI sent by a group of railroad offij a well-known Dutch artist. Agnes mer built
townsite. Charlie had visions remembers Charlie paid the crew' cials to represent them ana .superand her sister finally went out on of a great
town, with the railroad of laborers and furnished three' vise the very secretive drilling of
I their own and started their dress­ spur due to
come to Bessemer. : -lonths of food supplies. including! an oil well in the mountains—probmaking and millinery business. After him came
other hopeful set­ $100 worth of sardines of every' ably the earliest in Wyoming The
Then, acquiring a little “Western tlers, many of them
his friends variety to feed the men. :For some' Ogallala newspaper’s editor and
fever,” Agnes went with Hugh L. from Omaha and Ogallala.
reason, however, Charlie never got■ his son-in-law, an official of the
McWilliams and his family to Ogal­ homes were all log structures,’Their
save any lime out of the kilnI after its' railroad, persuaded Charlie to hanlala—^where both Agnes and tlie perhaps for some stone houses
— completion—perhaps he was too' die this work, for which he was
McWilliams family took out home- w'ithout the railroad, no lumber
busy prospecting.
well-paid. The well, however, was
steads. Hugh did Agnes’ plowing in -w'as available. In the mountains
Sardines were part of the foodI dry. (With so shallow a hole, who
1' exchange for her helping his wife tliere were many trees which could staples regularly ordered by Char­■ knows what lay beneath with presI with the family sewing. McWll- be felled and left to season — a lie twice a year from St. Louis.. ent-day depths for drilling?) Alter
I liams became good friends with imark in each one to identify the When the supplies reached Casper,, settling at Bessemer, Charlies fre1 Charlie Peterson and joined him owner.
j it took a drayman two trips to get
in a real estate firm and the tnuxk 1 Not long after the Petersons, the ! them all delivered to the Peterson: quently took Agnes out to the
I mountains for a ride—the children
previously mentioned.
.^Valter A. Blackmores came from : home.
placed in the rear of the spring
Charlie courted Agnes for some |
i The Blackmores were particular!I wagon on a feather bed, where they
time and, over the protests of a!
I ly close friends of the Petersons^• could sleep, and Agnes riding her
wealthy wholesaler also courting,
: and frequently entertained theI own pony alongside the wagsa. On
[ became engaged to her. ’They were
youngest child at their home. When' one of these trips, they rode west' married at the Paxton Hotel in i
Charlie was gone on his trips, the! ward about an hour when they
I Omaha; in 1883, and eventually [.
-Blackmores came over, and slept■ came to a large pile of rocks. Unmoved to Ogallala.
j
at the Peterson house, so that Ag­' derneath them, Charlie showed her
Although Charlie had traveled •.
nes would not be alone. Minnie’ a box ot documents belonging to
extensively, the young couple was I
Blackmore v/as well-known for her the railroad officials, carefully
hardly prepared for Indian terri-p^
; ability as a pianist—but frequently placed in a hole and covered with
I tory. Charlie’s enthusiasm for the j
played hooky with Agnes to go fish-' dirt and rocks to blend w'ith the
wild, un.settled country was bound- i [T.
’ ing in the North Platte.
scenery. (One wonders what man­
less, however. Soon after their
Every house had hunting guns, ner of deal was so secretive that
as game of all types was abund­■ it needs be buried in the moun­
marriage, he persuaded Agnes to :
ant, but having small children tains, rather than placed in office
sell her homestead, rather than be ’
forced to work at farming and be "
meant that the Winchester and' files!)
tied to one town.
&lt;
shotgun in the Peterson house had Charlie’s second well was, ac­
to be put high on the walls. Along cording to Agnes drilled quite
LEFT FOR WYOMING
with the guns, deer heads and pol­ close to Bessemer .ownsite. R. B.
In the spring of 1888, the young
ished buffalo horns (used for hat­ Blackmore of Casper, Walter’s son,
family, now five in number, left t
racks) adorned the walls.
has an old picture thought to be
their Ogallala homo and started
Just before Christmas one year, that of the second well—this phofor Wyoming. Agnes and the chil­
Agnes
secured
two
dozen
eggs
and)
tograph showing an old cable too!
dren rode the train all night to Annpc
Glenrock, while Charlie drove ^9"®^ Peterson in Omaha a few pounds of butter from the jig and various Bessemer people
through more slowly in his spring­ before the family moved to Goose Egg_ JRanch, intending to, interested in the well—which was
bake cakes. The supplies’-were put also* dry.^This well was driiied onb'
board wagon. On descending to the Bessemer in 1888.
high in the cupboard (built cross--------------------------------------------platform at Glenrock, Agnes was

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