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The town of Baggs, Wyoming was named for:
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George Baggs
This pioneer in the Texas cattle trade is no longer a citizen of the Territory but has been so long and so thoroughly identified with its most important industry, that he is entitled to notice as one of the authors of its prosperity and promoters of its growth. Born in Maryland in 1831, he went to Cincinnati in boyhood and there learned the moulders trade, which however, he abandoned on reaching years of maturity, for more adventurous callings. In 1852 he drove an ox-team across the plains to California and after four years experience in the mines went to Oregon where he lived for another four years. Then going to Washington he embarked in the stock business which he carried on successfully in that territory for six years, shipping and driving cattle to British Columbia with profit, though incurring great risk of Indian depredation. His next venture was in driving sheep into the Boise basin, Idaho after which he engaged in cattle operations in Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee. Then buying a herd in Texas he drove it to [Colorado?] and after selling to advantage, took up a tract of land on Snake River in 1879 and stocked it with cattle brought from Colorado and has since continued to deal extensively in cattle. Mr. Baggs now makes his home near El Paso, Texas and in addition to his stockgrowing interests, invested in Mexican mines, being the owner of the richest in the state of Chihuahua. He was the first and perhaps has been the only man to drive a herd of horses to El Paso by the Western trail including the passage of the terrible Jornada del Nueste or "Journey of Death", as the waterless reach of desert to the northward of that place is significantly called. His early faith in the future of the stockgrowing industry induced him to make experiments which, by their successful results, encouraged others less bold to venture in his wake. Of course Mr. Baggs has done his share of Indian fighting and has passed through many startling adventures far more interesting to relate, than they were pleasant to undergo.
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H-113; Archives and Historical Biographies of Carbon County,WY.
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