Our great great great grandfather, Joseph Clark, son of a Scottish cattleman, was given a year to live when diagnosed with tuberculosis at 17. Seeking a fresh start, he and his brother Thomas traveled to America. They found themselves in Kansas where their fellow Scotsman, George Grant, the father of Angus cattle, had recently introduced the breed to the Midwest. Seeking their fortune in the far west, Joseph and Thomas left for the Idaho Territory in 1883. They took with them some of the first Black Angus cattle the west would see.