Advertising Career Lincoln Marketing Nebraska

Advertising Career Lincoln Marketing Nebraska

Advertising Career Lincoln Marketing Nebraska

As the western United States opened during the 1800s, the need for cowboys to drive cattle from grazing lands to market became a needed necessity. John Bratt was such a cowboy. He was born in Staffordshire, England on August 9, 1842. He was twenty-one years old when he arrived in America.

Before moving to Nebraska, he lived for a time in Chicago and the south. He moved to Nebraska City, Nebraska in 1866. He took a job as bullwhacker, a driver of oxen, with a freighting company going to Fort Phil Kearney, Wyoming. Later he worked as a courier, ranch caretaker, teamster, wood and hay contract foreman, contractor’s agent and manager.