| My Grandfather George Frank Larison wrote this Poem in the Early 1930s. He had been a Horse Soldier at the First Part of the 1900s on the Border of Arizona and Mexico with the First Cavalry. He went on to be a U.S. Marshal in Tombstone. He then went on to be Chief of the Phoenix Police Department in the Late 1930s and the Early 1940s. He was a Tough old Guy, and His Nickname that He was known by was "Booger Larison ! But He Loved to Write Poetry, and had many Published in books. In the Early 1970s William R. Hearst Jr. ask if He could use the above Poem in a Book of Poetry that was doing of His Father's William R. Hearst the Man that started The Hearst Corp. and Built the Hearst Castle in California, and He also Wrote Poetry. On the trip to the Hearst Castle and on to Hearst Wyntoon Ranch in the Early 1970s John Wayne ask if He could also have a Copy to Hang on the wall of His house at Newport Beach, California and a copy for The 26 Bar Ranch at Eagar, Arizona and that is where One Copy is still Hanging all these Years Later. At The 26 Bar Ranch. |
| THE FIRST CATTLE SALES CATALOG AT JOHN WAYNE'S THE 26 BAR RANCH IN 1967 |
| BELOW THE POEM THAT DUKE WANTED FOR 26 BAR RANCH |
| JOHN WAYNE HISTORY IN ARIZONA |