Nottingham-Albertson Ranch – CO. Great Ranches of the West

“Nottingham had traveled from Iowa to the Rocky Mountain valleys with his wife and five small children in 1882. He’d met Ernest Hurd and a third settler near the town of Redcliff, and the three men proposed a ranching partnership. The trio bought 480 acres, brimming with all the excitement and hope that a new business venture in the Wild West brought. But soon tragedy overshadowed the enterprise when the third partner committed suicide. Nottingham and Hurd began Read More …

Nottingham-Albertson Ranch – CO. Great Ranches of the West

“December 20, 1896. Running for his life, the cowboy slipped on frozen mud in the corral. Scrambling to his feet, he sprinted into the barn and shimmied up a latter into the loft. Ernest Hurd’s breath turned to puffs of white in the frigid air as he squinted through gaps between hay bales, gun drawn. Cold sweat tricked between his shoulder blades. Just seconds later, his senior partner, William Nottingham, burst through the barn door. Gunfire split the Read More …