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  'The \'Big Four\' that financially backed the Calgary Stampede could just as well have been the \'Big Five\' - a Rosebud and area rancher named Jack Morton provided much of the livestock for the early years of the rodeo.',
  'Jack Morton was about 6 foot 2 inches and weighed over 180 pounds when he was only 14 years old. His love of racing and practical jokes soon forced him to leave his father\'s farm in Manitoba and started him on a life of herding livestock across the wild expanse of the prairies. As he matured he used his natural \'\horse sense\'\ to buy animals that were prairie hardy and his tremendous strength to perservere through hardship and be available to anyone in need.',
   'Jack Morton had a unusual way of getting oxen ready for plowing. He found that fastening sections of spruce logs as yokes across the necks of \'green\' steers and then hitching them to stone boats for a few days while grazing did most of the job of breaking them in for plowing work. For a couple of years the settlers in the Carbon area would take all the oxen that Morton could supply. Trouble was that if the oxen got loose, the critters seemed always to return to Morton\'s spread.',
   'Although Jack Morton\'\s herds of horses seemed to grow like magic, giving him the reputation of a horse thief it was doubtful if he actually stole any horse. Although, if a horse saw fit to join his vast herd, he did not chase anything away. Mostly it seemed that the Rosebud area had its very own \'Robin Hood\'. This was testified to by at least one settler who said that, \"He didn\'t care where Jack Morton found the horses he gave him, but he knew Jack put him back on his feet and he\'d bless Jack forever.\"',
   'Livestock, especially horses, often were difficult for the first settlers to afford. As one of the local Danish settlers relates, Jack Morton\'s was generous in providing horses for peopl in need was well known. Jack would say - \'Take your pick, pay when you like, and if you can\'t handle the horses, bring \'em back.\'',
   'Cattle mange in the early 1900s nearly wiped out the livestock across the prairie causing the government to make everyone dip whole herds of cattle in a nasty vile-smelling mixture. In 1902, the Rosebud area dipping vats were used to treat a hundred thousand head of range and farm cattle and \'one unhappy cook\' (the moral - never deprive a cowboy of his well-deserved supper especially one as big and full of high spirits as Jack.)', 
   'Jack Morton was often the sensation of the Gleichen Stampede, especially in the wild horse race. The object of this race was to catch and mount an unbroken horse and then ride it across the arena to the finish line. Once, Jack was helping Tom Lauder with a wicked horse addicted to fighting back with either front or hind feet. Jack held the rope while clamping on to the horse\'s ear with his teeth pulling him to a standstill. The horse then promptly planted one foot inside of Jack\'s trouser belt and peeled his pants off. Some of ladies in the crowd were so shocked that they were screaming. However, Jack calmly held on until the horse was saddled and Tom rode off to win the race leaving him near naked in the infield.',
   'For the first Calgary Stampede in 1923 , Guy Weadick, the promoter and organizer, invited Jack to drive his chuckwagon as a demonstration over the  race course. In typical Jack Morton style, he drove pell mell around the track, then halted, unhitched, and doused the stove with gas and lighted it to send up a cloud of flames and smoke. In the real race afterwards, there were six chuckwagon entries.', 
   'Morton\'s \'CX boys\' are credited with starting the tradition of yelling \'Yahoo\' during the Calgary Stampede. Before every opening day for the Calgary Stampede they would finish the stock drive of 120 or so of Jack\'s wildest horses right past the front of the Palliser Hotel on 9th Avenue while whooping and hollering as wild as they could.',
   'Often when Jack Morton drove his chuckwagon at the Calgary Stampede, he wasn\'t looking looking for a prize. He liked the attention so much that he often added colour to the race by throwing his reins to the ground on the homestretch approach to the grandstand, leaving it to his outriders to catch the horses by their bridles after the finish line.',
	  'Jack Morton often went to extremes to make sure the right thing was done. He wasn\'t a religious man but he happened to attend church one time in Rosebud when the travelling preacher came through. The deacons of the church had not thought of who would take the offering so when the preacher came in the door to the church he asked the nearest man to do it, which was Jack. Jack passed round the offering plate and it came back near empty. He must of thought the congregation could do better because he went to the front of the church, raised his pistol and had the plate passed again until their was a respectable amount in it',
   'In the early years of the Calgary Stampede, Jack Morton always added excitement to any event he was entered. In at least memorable one chuckwagon race Jack dropped his reins and reached forward, seized the horses in the rear team by their tails and pretended that he was steering them leaving his outriders to help slow them down after the end of the race',
   'Jack Morton rode a trick horse that would \'play dead\' on command. He often rode this horse in the Calgary Stampede parades until it was sold to an admiring Indian chief. In fact there used to be a mural on the side of Big Four Building at the Calgary Stampede that immortalizes Jack, his horse and his pet badger, Sundown.',
   'Horace Inkster, Jack Morton \'s ranch cook was famous for accompanying Jack\'s chuckwagon crew to the Calgary Stampede and providing flapjacks (pancakes) and beans as the first \'Stampede Breakfasts\' to passers by.',
   'Jack Morton purchased his first quarter section SE of Rosebud in 1909, by 1919 he had nearly 15,000 acres of crop and grazing land as well as over 7000 horses and 700 head of cattle and two steam engine tractors and a 30-60 Rumley Oil Pull tractor. His CX ranch covered vast areas of land through Rosebud, Standard, Rockyford and Gleichen',
   'Just before the bars closed in 1915 and Alberta became \'dry\' Jack Morton invited his ranch hands to celebrate a recent land deal at a Gleichen hotel. Two men from opposing ranches started a fight that turned into a free-for-all outside. When Jack decided it was time for a recess, he shot his revolver into the air and offered to buy everyone a drink with the fight to resume later. Everyone stumbled inside and no-one remembers if they ever did finish the fight.',
   'Always one to to do the outragious, Jack Morton thought one day that just visiting his friends in Rosebud was too boring. He decided that it would be more fun to ride up the steps and right into the bar of the Rosebud Hotel to say \'Happy New Year\' to Mrs. Wishart and Mr. Brown.',
   'Jack Morton even tried to join the army in 1916, however army officers soon realized their uniforms did not include size 14 army boots. (He probably also didn\'\t fit into their idea of a well-disciplined recruit). However, he was very proud of the outrageously short kilt that was the only one close to fitting him. He made the other recruits look so puny they sent him home but they let him keep the kilt.',
   'Once when he and his men dropped into the annual Christmas concert in Rockyford, Jack was asked by the Master of Ceremonies to sing or recite or do anthing he chose by way of entertainment. Although surprised, Jack pulled his enormous cowboy hat on more snugly, tightened his belt over his trousers and performed the Red River jig and the crowd held their breath in awe as the platform held under his great weight.',
   'Another time Morton bought a wild bull, cheap and was driving it home to the ranch. When he got off to open a wire gate, the bull charged his horse and then him. He grabbed its tail and hung on for dear life. Round and round that bull went trying to get at him. It bucked, bellowed and stomped his hat but Jack kept hold of that tail until the bull finally fell down, exhausted. Then Jack dragged his battered body onto his horse and drove the bull back home.',
   'Jack Morton was recruited to be a ranch hand in the 1890s for one of a group of French businessmen. These entrepreneurs realized there was lots of money to be made raising horses and cattle to supply army troops waging war in various places in the Americas at the time. Jack was very savvy and used his employer\'s money to good advantage. When he sent to buy cattle down East to bring to Rosebud, he would purchase the nice looking, inbred Eastern stock and then turn around and sell it for a good price. With the profit he bought a goodly amount more of the wilder, more rangy looking longhorn cattle and keep the extra stock for himself. Turns out that his employer was well pleased because the longhorns had a greater survival rate on the open prairie so he and Jack both ended up ahead in the deal.',
   'The Indians often put up hay for Jack Morton and he often brought their head man a drink of Nappy O-ka, but Jack\'\s top saddle horse also liked whisky. At one pow wow the host was disappointed when the thirsty beast consumed the whole bottle of fire water. The Indians smelt the horse\'\s breath feigning drunkenness they fell to the ground, only to be back on their feet in a few minutes to start a scalp dance at which Jack was to lose his scalp. jack knelt in prayer, inviting the swift passing of the knife which would remove only a small scalp lock - a thought that helped. But it was all in fun, only a small lock of hair was taken off, but following the ceremony he was no longer called \"\Sun-Up\"\ but demoted to \"\Sun-Down\"\, a name which the older Blackfeet called him for the rest of his days.',
   'The Gleichen Patriotic Stampede was a success largely because of Jack Morton and Chris Bartsch who put up money and animals for the show. Morton and his boys did more than their share of the work and supplied wild steers, calves and budking horses. And one of the higlights of the trotting races was Jack driving his trotting mare, Roxy, who out-paced them all. Jack rode in the sulky with one of his long legs on either side of her, and her tail, a very long one, hung over his right leg and out behind, making it look as if Jack had grown a tail. They stole the show and had to answer encores with a solo heat.'
      
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