Three cowboys were frozen to death last…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

his accomplice, has left the country. Three cowboys were frozen to death last week, and several others so badly frozen that it is hardly likely they can recover. They were holding 1800 head of beef cattle for Col. R. G. Head, in Colfax county, when the cattle be- ( 26 ) came unmanageable. Though the snow was so blinding that it was impossible to see fifty feet ahead, Henry Miller, range foreman, called the boys about him and started to follow the herd. How long they succeeded in keeping up with the maddened brutes is not known, but two days afterward one of the men wandered into the home ranch almost dead with hunger and cold. A rescuing party was sent out and the frozen bodies of Henry Miller, Jo Martin and Charley Jolly were found lying on the plains not far from Folsom. Miller had been foreman for Head for twelve years, twelve years. From ihe November 22, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Early Pioneers The Men Who First Opened The Santa Fe Trail