EK Ranch

EK Mountain was named after the EK Ranch Outfit, established in 1880 by Alexus Roach and Horace Plunkett, both Irish noblemen. This was the main ranch building, located at the foot of EK Mountain. They also established a cow camp on North Fork of the Powder River.
The EK Cattle Company did not homestead the site. So later, a man named Dan Sleeper homesteaded where the house was and the EK Ranch had thirty days to remove its property from the site. Sleeper picked roundup to file notice, assuming the cattle company would just leave the house, and he would have a cabin already built to live in. Instead, they set cowboys to tearing it down and hauling it off.

 

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