, 1885-02-25
THE HOME RANCH.
How an English Journal Describes
a Wyoming Ranch.
A Bit of Interesting Information
About Moreton Frewen.

oAttNh VI -AOACAOh AA0Wtht HAO 10 well
known in New York IS the son-in-law Of
Mr.. Leonard Jerome and owner OF the
Home ranch on Powder river, Not far
away from the Home understanding to
the measure ola place from which the
nearest railway station is 800 miles dis
fanfare the spots in which Gen. Mac
kenzie fought the last great Indian fight;
and a little further, on the verge of Mr..
Frewen's range, is the fatal spot in the
Little Big Horn hills where Gen. Custer
and his comrades were cut up by the
Sioux. On the prairie some fifty yards
from the house, is the grave of a soldier
"A Warren who was shot by Indians
and buried where he fell.
Standing on an elevation above the
river. the house stands within a bend ON
a sort of peninsula, around which the
stream curves in a semi-circle, a situation
always preferred by Briton, Saxon and
Roman for purposes of defense, and OK
pressed in the Celtic derivation Of Col
chester, corrupted into the Latin camulo-
dunum. The banks are prettily fringed
with large cottonwood trees. Above them
rises a two-storied log house built of en-
tire pine trees, plastered and ceiled inside,
with chimneys Of stone quarried within
halfa mile. Within are induces Of other
than prairie life. The drawing room is
p%rettily furnished, has a pianoforte and
plenty Of books, including the works of
Froude, Macaulay, and the late Lord
Lytton, whose ''Zanoni" has been restored
to notice by recent works on Buddhism.
The house is as n far west palazzo
should be, built, as it were, round a large
hall which runs to the top ofit. This
huge apartment, with its immense rough
hewn logs covered here and there with
the skins of beaver caught in the river
and bison killed on the prairie, and the
decoration consists of heads of elk, of
black-tailed and white-tailed deer. big
horn sheep, and other creatures Amid
these signs of wild life is a telephone con.
nected with a postofice and telegraph
office at the crossing of Powder river,
| twenty-five miles below. Mr.. Frewin
will sometimes say. 81 frequently connect
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tenant Mckinney was killed in the great
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