Kitty Wilkins

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Kitty Wilkins (1857-1936) was a horse breeder at the turn of the 19th century known as the "Horse Queen of Idaho". Her Diamond Ranch supplied thousands of horses for midwestern markets like St. Louis and Chicago, and later to the U.S. Army in the First World War.
Wilkins was raised in Tuscarora, Nevada where her father John Wilkins operated a hotel. She was well educated, sent to St. Vincent’s Academy in Walla Walla, Washington and later the Convent of Notre Dame in San Jose, California. In the early 1880s, her family moved to the Bruneau country of Idaho and began operating the horse ranch that she later inherited.
She retired to Glenns Ferry, Idaho after 1920.

[edit] External links

• Idaho State Hist. Soc. entry on Kitty Wilkins' Diamond Ranch
• Idaho State Hist. Soc. entry on Ranching and Mining in the Bruneau Country
• Cache of Dec. 1898 article from the Nevada State Journal via newspaperarchive.com
• "Hot Spring Heaven" in Southwest Aviator online.