The Powder River Cattle Company Limited. Report Of The General Manager, Mr. Moreton Frewen, To The Shareholders At Their First Annual General Meeting.

FREWEN, MORETON [GENERAL MANAGER]

Publication: Privately printed, 1884, N P

Rare summary of events covering the last year: two day snow storm of great severity, incessant rain in the Spring, a wet summer, average steer sold for $42,50, discusses number of cattle including calves (18,647 cows, 6000 calves), value of the land, news regarding Mr. Con Kohr of Deer Lake, Montana, and the father of the ranch business in Montana. Remainder of the report discusses monetary value in English pounds. In a P. S., (post script) he relates the importance of Texas in raising cattle. In 1924, a book titled "Melton Mowbray And Other Memories" written by Moreton Frewen and published. The following comments are of interest: Six Score 43 says "Frewen was engaged for a time in ranching on the Powder River in Wyoming, ultimately going broke. In all, ten chapters of this book deal with his experiences there. An English squire related, apparently, to virtually everybody who was anybody, including the Churchills and Beresfords, Frewen provides an archetypal British view of the cattle boom. His experience in Wyoming was but one part of his varied career, which was mainly to fight for Bimetallism. To read Frewen is to look at a lost world - the aristocracy of late Victorian England in full flower. This, transplanted to the Far West, makes a most entertaining narrative," Four page 8" x 10" report, folded into three parts. One tiny closed tear to one fold crease, else a fine copy.

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