Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-05-19
SHE SELLS HORSES.
MISS klTTlE WILKINS Is HER IA
THEIRS PARTNER IN A RANCH.

| Would Rather Raise and Sell Horses
! Than Live in a Big City.
| 1t doesn't seem proper and chivalrc
| thing to call n young and handsome wom-
an a pioneer, even when she has been the
| first woman to enter n new occupation.
But Miss Kittie Wilkins, of Idaho, has
no objection to being called the pioneer
woman horse dealer. She would rather be
called that, she says, than the cattle
queen" Rome western papers have given
her that'Ntlc, but she detests it, partly be-
cause she thinks it is absurd and partly
because she doesn't like cattle. But she
loves horses dearly, and has always loved
| them ever since she was q tiny bit of q
! girl.
Eyes that is partly why have taken up
this occupation" said Miss Wilkins. My
! father has been raiser of horses for many
| years, and from the time | was little girl
| was always around with him among the
horses and on his selling trips, and so when
/ | grew up just drftcd gradually into the
work of selling the horses until now
have entire charge of that branch of our
! business"
Miss wilkins is equal partner with her
| father and two brothers in the big Wilkins
! horse and cattle ranch in southwestern
Idaho. The father and brothers devote
themselves to the ranch side of the bust
ness, while into the sisters hands have
been put for the last six years the outside
work, and she has attended to the sales
and shipments of both cattle and horses
She doesn't care for cattle, and her work
with them is perfunctory, but all through
the west she is famous for her thorough
knowledge of horses, her quick and excel
ind, H., | ii
their management.
Miss wilkins has made business trip to
New York. Heretofore she has made her
sales in Chicago and the large cities west
of the Mississippi. And in all the big
stock yards of that reg on her annual visit
and her consignment of big ranch horses
are expected with interest For her horses
are always big, healthy and salable, and
she is a handsome and interesting young
woman. Although she goes about her
business in as businessike way as if she
were IA man, she is like refreshing breeze
from her own far away prairie
My success in New York has been very
good, said Miss Wilkins, land | intend
hereafter to make u business trip to your
city every year.
Yes, enjoy the business very much,
and its fascination grows upon me con-
stantly. Do | consider it my profession for
life? Why, yes, certainly; Just az much as
my brothers consider it theirs. Why not?
devote all nv time and energy TO learn
ing all can about horses. their breeding
care and management. And the more |
learn the more find out there is vet to be
learned It's the most FASCINATING occupa-
ton know of. and lam thorouphlv hannv
in it.
did ever find any obstacles and did
ANYBODY ever hint that they thoupht il
was unwomHulv9 Well. those are uucer
Questions DO Won know. it. never oc.
Cured TO me before that auvbodv MIGHT
think it was m, ilnlyOmanly business for a
woman TO he eunared in. Even the most
disaprceable person | ever saw never hint
ed it. But it's NV chosen occunotion 7
enjoy it and am successful in it. and NV
father and brothers trust NV judgement
and cnu,citv in tLa hteincee i,,et ,, ,I,o,,
do their own. And if we are satisfied
what affair il it of any one on the outside
As for obstacles. why. bless Won. no |
never found a sinrlc one. On The contrary
every one has ALWAYS been kindly and
courteous. and have never met with onv.
thing that was in the least bit unnleas.
ant"
Miss wilkins is n tborouch western
woman, and has lived all her life in Cali
fornia, Oregon and Idaho She has the
frank, cordial. STRAIGHTFORWARD manners Of
the ycstcrncr. modified bv thc native dol.
icacv and self control of a woman of refine
mcnt. There is nothing that is in thc
least unrcfned. or "horscv. - or successive
of the horse market ahout ber u.nner. ~.
her conversation. She is Lealtbful and
wholesome lookino and whom She il anil
mated in conversation her anreararce il
very pleasant TO look unon Her frame il
raj her large and her body well rourLed
and the IMPRESSION she Gives is of overflow.
ing health and vitality. Her hair is as vol
low as her own prairie. in August and her
eyes are clear and stcadv and hIrs and
look straight nj Won win trnnkuoss md
sincerity. And the expression of her faco
indicates that whom She l,,s set n ,,rica ~,
a horse it doesn't leave her hands foro cont
less
"Our ranch " Miss wilkins wont ON j.,
answer ia n ouestion ..is in O,,.,,b,, ca,,r
.,,Ioe ,lo,,+ y ,no Lo.,I - -. ,.S1 zoo
of cattle. No. orr horses have, M n,ustopc,