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Show In 1902 Lemmon got the lease on the Standing Rock Reservation that included 865,-429 865,-429 acres. He helped organize stockmen's associations, a town a bank, was known all over 'the west for his soundness and 'cattle knowledge. He helped jlay out Evarts as a shipping 'point. G. E. (Ed) Lemmon Named Member of Hall of Fame The following article was sent us by Mrs. W. P. Larson, Lar-son, 422 West 8lh Street, Sioux Falls, South Dakota and taken from the Sioux Falls Argus-Lcader. Two South Dakotans who had a hand in the development of the American West and were prominent figures in the livestock industry have been named as members of the National Na-tional Cowboy Hall of Fame. Elected by trustees in the annual meeting here were James Philip, Philip, and G. E. (Ed) Lemmon, Lemmon. At the same time contracts were signed on the architects' plans and specifications leading lead-ing to construction start by autumn, for the first $l',i million mil-lion unit of the western shrine. O. E. (ED) LEMMON 1857-1946 or Lemmon The town of Lemmon was named for him by the Milwaukee Milwau-kee Railroad, whose route he laid out across Dakota; cowboy ranch foreman and manager, operator of one of the world's largest ranches of more than 865,000 acres under a four wire fence; stablizing influence in settlement of the country in troubled Indian days; civic developer de-veloper and official. Born at Bountiful, Utah, I.enmon lived with his family from 1859 lo 18(i9 on the Little Blue, near Hastings, Neb., where they operated a stage station. As a mine youth he carried mail for two years during construction of the Union Pacific. In the autumn of 1870 he became a cowhand for J. W. Iliff of Cheyenne, one of the great ranch operators of early days, who ran 70,000 head of cattle from the North Platte to Julesburg. Lemmon trailed herds from Texas to Nebraska, Missouri and the northern grass country. I In 1877 he joined the Flying V Ranch and in 1880 helped move its cattle to the Cheyenne Chey-enne River country of South Dakota, during troubled days with the Sioux. lie spoke their language, was their friend, carried the name of Hoostay bestowed by them because of a crippled leg from triple breaks incorrectly set. As foreman and then general manager of the Flying V he saddle handled hand-led more cattle than any other man then living, cattlemen recalled re-called in 1904. |
