Bean Robinson (Mineral Wells, TX) – wanted yearling heifers in 1950

WH Reilley (VP of Meyer and Chapman State Bank) – 1950

John Shonsey (VP of Live Stock National Bank in Omaha, NE) – bought yearlings in 1949 

Earl Weisenberger (Scott City, KS) – yearling steers 

Shonsey – bought 500 heifer calves in 1950 

Ruby E. Carlsen (Willcutt) living in Oakland 

Shonsey 

A.M. Henderson (Omaha, Neb.) – yearling steers in 1950 

Shonsey, etc… 

Jr. to Leo Plainfeather (gift of filly) on Apr. 9, 1951 

Don Slade (c/o Valley Ranch in Cody, WY) – in April of 1951 for saddle horses ($125/head) 

Robert and George Lazear (WY Hereford Ranch in Cheyenne) – buy bulls 

W.S. Brooks (Hardin, MT) – in 1951, looking for teams and insecticide 

Emery Lufkin (Cooke City, MT) - horses 

Harry Brainard (Manhattan, MT) – bulls 

M.H. Tschirgi, Campbell Farming Corp. (Wyola, MT) – need range for cows 

Shonsey – offer (28 cents for dry cows, 26 cents for wet) to sell 

Shonsey – informing HWW of Johnson bulls from Iowa 

Lazear – yearling bulls (’52) 

Shonsey – Johnson & Johnson bulls (’52)

Lazear – informing that most bulls are spoken for (6666, Oregon) HWW orders 30 for 1953 and 30 for 1954

Truman Essex (Morehead, MT) - contract to sell Willcutt (100) cows

Mactier Bros. (Livestock Commission Co. – Omaha) – sold 52 HWW heifers Lazear – bulls (Oct. 30, 1952)

Ralph Hilyard (Cumberland, Iowa) – bulls

Essex – posts (late 1952)

Lazear – delivery and list of bulls (Feb. 1953)

Lazear – order for 1954 bulls

Essex – cows

Shonsey – calves

Lazear – 1954 bulls (HWW does not like “red necks” on the Herefords) 

Tschirgi – turning out cows on his land (850 head) 

Lazear – 1955 bulls 

United Pacific Insurance Co. – livestock lost in electric light pole holes (1954) 

Shonsey – heifer calves 

Lazear, Shonsey, Essex, etc., etc. (1955) 

Producers Livestock Marketing Assoc. (Billings Public Stockyards) – loss on steers 

Lazear (1956), Essex, etc… 

Lindley Livestock Commission Co. (1955) 

Belgrade Vet Hospital (letter about drugs to stop frothy bloating) 

Brucellosis tests (1956)    quarantine 15 out of 265 bled 

E.H. Reimann (Park City, MT) – HWW looking for a milk cow 

Essex – HWW looking for a camp cook (George Stimpson’s father-in- law) 

Shonsey – yr. heifers (16 cents – avg. 550 lbs.)    HWW ---- “…if they are not satisfactory you can give me h—l, and maybe we can do better next time.” 

Tobe Stovall (Worden, MT) – found bull with mill iron brand 

Essex (10-2-56) – HWW / Cheyenne and controversy on “preference rights for buying tribal lands – advising on coming back to Crow country 

Leo W. Wuerl to HWW telling him that he sells only “old and worn out” cows in MT while “any young stuff” is sold out of state 

Dale S. Petit (HooDoo Ranch in Cody) – bought 224 steers in 1956 

Leo W. Wuerl (Great Falls, MT) – Leo sold an HWW cow that HWW bought in 1941 and by knowing the brands, HWW remembered her when  Wuerl wrote about her in 1956! 

Essex (1956)