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John Clayton

John Clayton is an independent journalist and essayist in Red Lodge, Montana. The University of Nebraska Press published his narrative biography of Caroline Lockhart, The Cowboy Girl.

The Old West’s Female Champion: Caroline Lockhart and Wyoming’s Cowboy Heritage

Caroline Lockhart wrote a handful of novels about Wyoming in the early 20th century. They made her famous and rich, and they hold up well today. At the same time, she was a new kind of activist, a central figure in bringing to the town of Cody and the state of Wyoming a new kind of nostalgia-based culture that both have embraced ever since.

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Essay : March 15, 2013 - 11:55pm

Lucy Morrison Moore, 'The Sheep Queen of Wyoming'

Lucy Morrison Moore, “The Sheep Queen of Wyoming,” was a leading sheep producer during the heyday of public-land sheep ranching from the 1880s to 1920s. Smart, tough and slightly eccentric, she and her family survived brutal, isolated conditions and attacks from cattle ranchers.

Encyclopedia : April 17, 2011 - 12:48pm