Bio
Known as Wyoming’s first rancher, John Myers was born in England in 1825. In the 1850s, he drove a team of oxen from St. Louis to Florence, Nebraska and then on to Salt Lake City.
After two years, he married and settled in what would become Uinta County, Wyoming. He started a ranch that would become Bear River Station on the Overland Stage route. In 1861 it was also a Pony Express Station.
Myers also developed a thriving timber business, supplying poles for new telegraph lines. His ranching operations focused on shorthorns, and his Yoke 9 Brand was the first registered in Wyoming.
