EK Ranch

EK Mountain was named after the EK Ranch Outfit, established in 1880 by Alexus Roach and Horace Plunkett, both Irish noblemen. This was the main ranch building, located at the foot of EK Mountain. They also established a cow camp on North Fork of the Powder River.
The EK Cattle Company did not homestead the site. So later, a man named Dan Sleeper homesteaded where the house was and the EK Ranch had thirty days to remove its property from the site. Sleeper picked roundup to file notice, assuming the cattle company would just leave the house, and he would have a cabin already built to live in. Instead, they set cowboys to tearing it down and hauling it off.

Amy Chubb and Elsie Lloyd, daughters of settlers at EK Mountain

Round up Camp in Kaycee Wyo

 

These photos show several brandings and a round up in the area:
Brock Livestock branding, 1915
Branding at the EK Home Ranch, J.J. Jones, A.L. Brock, W.S. Jones, Barney Beard
HW Davis family members branding a calf, courtesy Timmie Hinckley-Anderson
Round up Camp in Kaycee, date unknown

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