INTERVIEW OF MARY ROSENCRANCE
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After quitting the stock business, we developed the ranch, put in a water wheel and raised grain, and started an orchard.
I rode in many roundups, but the longest one was when I rode with 500 cowboys for that last roundup when the Big Bend was thrown open to settlement.
Over 2,000 head of horses carried our brand, the Bar-X. We were four or five months in the saddle and the last great band of horses in Washington was taken off the range. We had to quit raising stock when the settlers came and didn’t know how to do anything else.
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