Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — THE YOUNGEST COWBOY. [ARTICLE]

THE YOUNGEST COWBOY.

A Wonderfully Developed Specimen ot 9 Younr, Amerien. z . n/.-. The youngest cowboy In the world is a phsent visiting this city, says a letter from Fort Worth. He is Logan Miilhad, a herd-owner in the Cheyenne nation, and he is just a month or so over 6 years old. The boy owns over one hundred head of cattle, has his own brand, which is duly registered, and he does fully as much of his own work as any boy of 6 years, has done, even in the West. This very juvenile patriarch is a son of Zach Mulhall, well knowm the cow country, and his father ft firmly convinced that such another young prodigy has not yet appeared in the grazing lands. The young geutlemap was formally put in possession of a herd some months ago He has had made for himself a little Winchester rifle and la special revolver, with both of which arms he is said to be very expert. The boy has his own bunch of horses and hires his own help—of course, under the superintendence of his father—and during the present spring he has everyday ridden a line of more than three miles.about his herd. This is a development of Young America which the herders in these parts do not believe can be equaled in any other part of the country. The boy it worth about $1,200 in his own right, anc bis profits will not be less than SSOO i. year, which is more than falls to the lot bl the average 6-year-old.