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The ranch was on [[Phillips Creek]] in the [[Little Dry]]. The manager was [[L. W. Stacy]]. Wagon bosses were [[Lawrence Higgins]], [[Mike Dodge]], [[Perry Jones]], [[Ben Flemming]]. They ran over 30,000 cattle between the Yellowstone and Missouri. They operated three roundup wagons.

The cook, (Old Butch) [[E. B. Butcher]], was just as cranky as any old roundup cook ever could be.

The ranch ran mostly steers. They shipped in 10,000 head over the [[Northern Pacific railroad]] in the spring of 1903. They were unloaded during a late storm. The loss was heavy. The little steers had to swim across the [[Yellowstone River]] and be trailed to the Little Dry where they were turned loose on the open range.

[[Gill Dodge]] and [[Harry Dodge]], [[Bill Combs]], [[Rusty McNab]], [[Ole Olson]], [[Perry]] and [[Jim Weaver]], [[Jim McNanie]], [[Bob Leavitt]], [[Ole Lund]] and many more cowboys worked on that ranch.

The smaller ranches were called the 'small punkin roller outfits' and there were many of those in addition to the big outfits that I have mentioned. Wilder was one small rancher who ran over a thousand head. I have seen four wagons all working together on the general roundup. There would be over 600 head of saddle horses. [[George Weaver]], who worked the year round for my father on the [[Wilder Ranch]], worked for the L U Bar on roundups.