The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-08-29
GIRL OWNS AND RUNS
BIG WESTERN RANCH.

Ten years ago Miss Helen Lynch
was a student in the High School at
Omaha. Today she owns and per-
sonally operates a cattle ranch of
10000 acres near Hyanis, Neb, on
which are thousands of cattle and 100
horses and "cow ponies" The ranch
is known as the OH" and cattle
bearing that brand can be seen in the
livestock markets of Omaha, Chicago
and Kansas City.
Miss Lynch did not graduate from
the Omaha schools, but she has made
success of the business to which she
devoted herself upon the death of her
father ten years ago.
Thomas Lynch left little property
IN the shape of small ranch out in
the sand hills country, widow and
four children. At a family council
after the funeral Helen announced
her intention of quitting school and
deVotlng her attention to the small
ranch. Mr.. Lynch had often said that
Helen had good business sense, and
mother gave her consent.
NO long-range management for
me, said Helen. I'm going out to
the ranch and live on it."
And she did. Her father had manv
friends out on the range, and they
were glad to advise her. She was able
10 separate good from the bad So
she prospered and the ranch grew
from the small affair left by the faith
er TO the 1O,0O0-acre domain of TODAY
Last year Helen cut LOO tons of hay
worth in Omaha more than $4,000
AT the beginning there was consider
able trouble with cattle "rustlers.~
number of ranchmen got together and
determined to wipe them out. and sew
eraI OF her cowboys lent their aid
Since then no cattle have ever been
rustled" on that ranch.
Miss Helen is an expert horse
woman and is in the saddle almost
constantly. She is her own manager
buys her own cattle and takes them
TO market. She uses a big "MiIes
CITY saddle, carries a lariat at the
pummel and a revolver in a holster
she wears divided skirt. a pair of
Doots that reach to her knees. and a
large soft white hat
She can use the lariat with anv COW
boy on the range and is a good shot
She is the best "hazer" around Hvan.
MS. The hazer on a ranch is the rid
er who steers a bucking broncho that
is being broken. He follows AT tho
neels OF the regular buster and
When the broncho is seen to be head.
ed for barbed wire fence or anv
other danger, he must so maneuver as
TO push his own mount between If
and the threatened danger. The ioh
is one for a full-sized man Miss
Lynch is the only woman "bazer,, in
the county. III
Miss Lynch's main object in carry
ing a lariat is to assist an animal in
distress. Steers often get mired in
the mud around the water holes and
VIII perish if left to themselves Misc
Helen casts her rope over its bor,,s
and with the other end of the rome CO,
curely fastened to the pommeI Of ber
saddle pulls the animal out.
The recent blizzard came on sudden
~ ana swept across the plains at the
| rate OF fifty miles an hour Miss
Lynch and such of her COWBOYS az She
could reach mounted their horses and
| SET out after the great herd which
they knew would soon start driftina
before the snowy blasts. Before The
rloers arrived at that part of the
: range IN which the herd had haa,
grazing the animals were going at FIJI
speed the cowboys and Miss Lynch
went after them and mile after mile
u sne race went on. the riders trying to
mead ON the frightened animals Fl.
many many the COWS and calves gave up the
hlg1t and suffered themselves to he
heraed' but the steers kept on going
Next day the blizzard was over. but
/ on all sides were piled great snow
orlfts some twenty feet deep. MANY
miles to the south the stampeded herd
was found in ravin and els draws
Many were frozen to death; Others
were SO deep in the drifts that moth
ing but their heads and horns could he
seen. Lariats were thrown over their
horns and the steers pulled out, Miss
Lynch doing her share of the work.