Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-01

He took up to Two Dot brand by
which he was known throughout Mon
tana and in all eastern stock centers.
1t was run horizontally on both hips
on his cattle and upended for horses
on the shoulder Although Wilson liked
of "Twodot," men who rode for him
say that it worked over very convent
emily into almost any other brand in
the hands of good man with a run
ming iron, and there is no doubt but
that it was worked over plenty. OPP
Grating on such an extensive scale in
a day when the range was unfenced
and law and order remote, 1t is almost
impossible to estimate the losses which
the Two Dot ranch sustained in the
hands of cattle and horse thieves.
Twodot Wilson's prestige was second
cattle and sheep barons coined money
in the Musselshell valley. The story of
New York life insurance company
agent who ventured to the ranch about
1900 nd sold Twodot 10-year, $4,000
policy and then proceeded up the val
ley. shows his position and his en-
joyment of it.
Returning down the valley from a
brilliantly successful trip. he stopped
at the Two Dot ranch where Wilson
was sitting in the door yard sharpen
ing a sickle bar.
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he recognizes the agent, did you have
any luck?"
Twodot Wilson had bought, and they
were sold!"
Twodot turned his head toward the
kitchen door where his wife was stand
ing, Hear that. Berry," he asked.
If Twodot burned down his barn to-
night every son in the valleyd burn
hiSl"
George Wilson liked the name Two
dot" and called himself by it. And
there is little doubt but that he en-
joyed his reputation as an eccentric.
A Hard Worker
1t was a tough assignment to work
for Twodot Wilson. A tireless and eX-
acting worker himself, he expected his
hired only tough men who knew which
end of a horse was up. For the pur-
pose of finding out how well an APP
plicant for job as cowhand could
ride, he kept an outlaw horse named
Brownie. 1t was his boast that Brownie
Brownie was ridden and Twodot had
a new hand--Sam MacGregor. Sam
had lost all his money. his horse and
saddle in a poker game at Martins
dale and needed job and needed 1t
bad. Twodot didn't think much of a
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improvident as to lose his money, horse
and saddle in a poker game, so he
wasn't inclined to give Sam a job.
However, he said, if Sam could ride
his Brownie horse, he'd hire him. That
was a ride! With Twodot sitting on
the sGr5a and encouTag tp tine h 6e
Brownie! Throw him!" And Sam,
knowing he had to ride or starve-
rode him.
Wilson prided himself on his judg-
ment of men Austin Pierce, a young
man from Missouri, shipped to Big
Timber and began looking for ranch
Job. He ran into Twodot by chance
and asked for work
where you from?" pipes Twodot.
Il came from Big Timber" says
Austin in a Missouri drawl
well. sometimes you get a good
Missourian," observed Twodot. Go to
work"
Three years later Pierce was ranch
foreman.
Married in 1876
In December of 1876, Twodot felt
that he was we'll enough fixed to take
unto himself a wife, so he went east
and put his rope on" Harriet Sails
bury Of New York-or so he told young
Billy Ford, now Judge Ford. He had
not advised his young wife as to the
extent of his possessions. and on his
nestled up to her newly acquired hus-
band and timidly asked: George, do
you suppose we could have a milk
cow?"