Bryant Butler Brooks

Bryant Butler Brooks (February 5, 1861 – December 8, 1944) was an American businessman, rancher, politician, oilman, banker and published author.After attending a business college in Chicago, Bryant headed west to Alexandria, Nebraska to work on a ranch and farm operation owned by his father's cousin, Judge L.D.At the Big Muddy, he traded six beaver traps and a sack of flour for a trapper's old sod-roofed log cabin.Bryant and Mary were married in Alexandria, Nebraska, where she was a school teacher living with parents, Judge Lockhart Dickman Willard and Olive Hester Clark.He was survived by his wife Mary and their five children, four girls and one boy – Jeanie, Abby, Lena, Melissa and Silas.
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