Edgar Beecher Bronson (1856-1917) was a Nebraska rancher, a West
Texas cattleman, an African big-game hunter, a serious photographer
and starting late in life, an author of fiction and personal
memoirs. He was a nephew of famed abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher.
Formerly a reporter for the New York Tribune, Bronson headed west
in 1877 to learn the cattle business under the directive of
Clarence King - first director of the United States Geological
Survey and owner of large mining and cattle operations in the
American West. Bronson worked for one season in Wyoming before
starting his own ranch with 716 cows with calves. Bronson chose
Sioux County, Nebraska for the site of his first ranch. His works
include: Reminiscences of a Ranchman (1908), The Red- Blooded
Heroes of the Frontier (1910), In Closed Territory (1910), The
Vanguard (1914) and The Love of Loot and Women (1917).
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