Ward, Fay E.

Fay E. Ward was born in Iowa and raised in South Dakota. When he was in sixth grade, he ran away from the home of his adoptive father and started his career as a cowboy. Throughout the years, he worked as a horse wrangler, a bronc buster, and a rough-string rider. He explored the territory between Alberta, Canada, and the border of Mexico on horseback for more than seventy years. Later, he would write about his experiences for magazines and newspapers, creating drawings to accompany his articles. He died in 1979 at the age of ninety-one.