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Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose was a promising young Philadelphia surgeon who moved to Wyoming after suffering from tuberculosis. His friend and fellow surgeon, Dr. Amos Barber had recommended the fresh air of Wyoming as a cure. Barber was serving as the second governor of Wyoming at the time.
While in Wyoming, Penrose was recruited to join a group from the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. In 1892, the Stock Growers were alarmed by the incessant problem of cattle rustling and horse stealing. They decided to take matters into their own hands and hunt down the rustlers.
The ensuing conflict between the powerful members of the Stock Growers Association and the ordinary cowboys who were accused of rustling became known as the Johnson County War.
The old rock Huson house, three miles west of Clearmont, is one of the Sheridan County Land Trust preservation projects. The 500 acres of land is protected from development, and old rock house, according to Brad Bauer, Executive Director, the house has a Historic Preservation Easement that protects the “original rock structure.” There have been some additions and alterations over the years, but the house is still much as it was when it was first built.
According to the Clearmont Historical Group, in the book, Huson, As it Was, the Huson family-Doc, Clarissa and their seven children, along with Clarissa’s parents, started West in 1881, traveling in covered wagons along the Oregon Trail. They brought along oxen, cows, horses, pigs, chickens and furniture, barrels of flour, sugar, water and rice were attached to the sides of the wagons. They moved to Buffalo, Wyo.