Lone Star Ranch
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The Stapletons came from Ireland. Mike Stapleton grew up near Petrolia, Ontario. He met the Andersons who owned the Petrolia Hotel. Mike Stapleton married Annie Anderson and brought her to the West. He started a Ranch in Southeast Alberta. Mike Stapleton was nicknamed The Chief and Annie was called Queen Anne of the Lone Star Ranch. They had a son, Murray Michael Stapleton, who worked on the ranch most of the time until he was 34, except for periods of going to school in Chicago and Stanford. That seems odd, but in those days Chicago was the market center where the cattle were sold, so going to Chicago on the train was common for them. Annie's brother, Father Christinsom, was headmaster of St. Cyril's College, Chicago. Marry Anderson Samuels was Annie's sister and visited the ranch during the teens and 20's, before moving to Calgary in the 30s. The ranch was on the Red Deer River at Jenner, Alberta. They kept losing cattle in the quicksands and soapholes of the Lone Star. The brands were the the cow brand split key bar, or hairpin, like their bend in the Red Deer River, and the Lone Star horse brand, the three-point star.

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