Much dickering was gone through and many deals made, some of enormous extent.
Individual sales of 2000, 5000 or even 10,000 steers were effected, and individual purchases of numbers up to 20,000 head; even whole herds of 30,000 to 50,000 cattle were sometimes disposed of.

It was a meeting where old friends and comrades, cattle kings and cowboys, their wives, children and sweethearts, met and had a glorious old time.

It brought an immense amount of money into the place, and hence the strenuous efforts made by different towns (the saloons) "to get the Convention." Among the celebrities to be met there might be Buffalo Jones, a typical plainsman of the type of Buffalo Bill (Cody).

Jones some years ago went far north to secure some young musk oxen.

None had ever before been captured.