Evening star., 1925-10-01
RANCHER, WHO BECOMES EARL,
PIONEER In BIG HORN COUNTRY
He and Friends Have
Made Land Like Part
of England.
Came There in Youth and
Others Followed His
Example.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SHERIDAN, Wyo., October l.
More than 40 years ago. a younger son
of a titled British family sought ad-
venture in the new world, as others of
his kind had done before him. He
lramped the wlds of British Columbia
across the Yellowstone and through
MOnta ma, down into the heart OF the
Big Horn country. Americas last
frontier. /.
There he east his lot with few
other hardy ones. Theirs was the
task of the pioneer, the land to be
cleared. streams harnessed and re-
Iations begun with the Cheyennes and
the Crows. 1t was a job for giants.
but 1t is almost done now. The rail-
road is there and towns have risen
To care for the yield of the ranches
and farms that now reap a rich har-
vest from the toll fof those early years.
so there's not much reason for
my leaving now. I've tramped every
foot of those hills. They belong to.
me. My friends are here and here I'll
make my home"
The speaker was an old man. He is
stoop shouldered now, but his eyes are
untroubled and clear. And a he swept
which rose few miles to the west.
the eyes held CLINT of youth.
New Earl of Portsmouth.
The night before a telegram. carried
16 miles from the nearest station, had
told the old man he is now the eighth
Earl of Portsmouth, that he Is the
master of Hurstbourns, Hampshire,
England, and various other landed
estates. He is the ninety-ni rank
ing peer under the Prince of Wales
and he has but to Indicate his desire
to be sworn as the forty.third Earl in
the House of Lords. The day before,
he was known as Oliver Henry Wal
lop, Big Horn rancher and Wyoming
pioneer.
Even the tourist who stays months
in northern Wyoming rarely sees a
ranch like that owned by Wallop and
the friends who have jointed him in
the little English colony near Sheri-
dan. Broad fields up TO the very foot
of the Big Horns. The houses are old
English manors; Wallop's was built
with his own hands and is the show
place of them all. 1t stands on the
first slope from the principal range
of the Big Horns, surrounded by
lawns that would do credit to an En-
glish estate. Flowers grow in pro-
fusion and vines reach up over the
long porch. ~
Viscount Lymington is now in
Hampshire. He served in the British
army during the World War and was
gassed. He later married Miss Mary
Post. a daughter of W. Kensington
Post of Long Island. According to the
terms of the various Wills which affect
the fortunes of the descendants of
Portsmouth. he comes into more prop
erty than his father.
The new British peer is not the popu-
lar conception of either a Wyoming
or a member of the House of
Lords.
Proud Of Title Dean"
His attitude toward Britain and his
earldom Is not assumed, He has his
on his family. He will tellzyou one Of
his American titles In which he reposes
an almost inordinate Importance.
They call me the DEAN" he says,
almost too apologetically for an earl,
but with smile that fairly reeks with
pride. It's because / was the first of
the bunch to come over here. William
and Malcolm and the rest followed me
here. / was the one who showed the
way. Why, there wasn't any one in
this country when ! came. I've watched
1t all grow up
The .Old man is so kindly he has be-
come the favorite of the whole region.
Though the English colony keeps
rather to itself and seldom touches the
life in Sheridan and surrounding
towns, the old earl knows hundreds of
cattlemen and mountain men intimate