Ann Williams Bader, along with three of her sons, moved to Wyoming from Nebraska and settled on the Nowood in the spring of 1896. Three other sons preceded her there: Johnnie, Fred and Mike. Ann filed a desert claim adjacant to Johnnie's property where her sons built her a log cabin. She lived in that cabin until her death. Ann's son, Merton, recounts their trip to Wyoming: "I was born in November 25, 1883 in Dorsey, Hold County, Nebraska and came to Wyoming in October 1895. We came in a covered wagon, it was a long cold trip. My mother, two brothers and myself. I had a brother Johnny, he had a ranch at the mouth of Broken Back Creek (in Wyo.) and that's where we were headed. I was never more lonesome and discouraged in my life as I was when we got there." The Bader family has a long history in Worland, Washakie County and the Big Horn Basin. - adapted from "A History of Washakie County"
