Bruce Brockett

RIMROCK - Services are pending at Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood, for Bruce D. Brockett, 73, a rancher in this area since 1928 and a Republican candidate for governor in 1948. Mr. Brockett died Thursday in his home here.

Born in Alliance, Neb., Mr. Brockett came to Arizona from Wyoming in 1928 when he established the Beaver Creek Guest Ranch. He was a Marine veteran of World War I.

In 1933, he and Marcus J. Lawrence bought the V Bar V Ranch and Cattle Company. He was a charter member of the Rimrock American Legion and the Greater Arizona, Inc., a long time member of the Elks and a former director of the Chamber of Commerce in both Yavapai and Coconino counties.

He was chairman of the Finance Committee of the American National Association in Denver for eight years and past president and two-term chairman of the board of directors for the Yavapai Cattle Growers Association.

He was active in Forest Service work for 14 years, sitting on county, state and national boards.

There are no known survivors.

Source:

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona

Wednesday, February 10, 1971, Page 81

BRUCE DOUGLAS BROCKETT – Marine Corps

For some reason, not many men from Sheridan County enlisted in the Marine Corps. One notable exception was twenty-one year old Nebraska-born cowboy Bruce Brockett, who joined the Corps on June 1, 1918, in Billings, Montana. He was then sent to Mare Island, California, for basic training. In November 1918, just as Brockett was preparing to go to France, the armistice was signed and his dreams of battlefield glory ended. How do we know all this? Because Brockett was a poet who set his experiences down in verse. Two of the three Brockett poems published in The Sheridan Daily Enterprise (reprinted here) pretty much sum up his career with the Marines: enlistment, basic training, stateside duty, discharge. After the war, Brockett returned to the Sheridan area for a while; he worked as a cowboy for the Kendrick Cattle Company. By 1930, he was operating a dude ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, where he lived until his death in 1971. He released at least two collections of his "cowboy" poetry, one in 1930 and another in 1948.

(Letters Home - Navy trailend.org)

Bruce Brockett

RIMROCK - Services are pending at Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood, for Bruce D. Brockett, 73, a rancher in this area since 1928 and a Republican candidate for governor in 1948. Mr. Brockett died Thursday in his home here.

Born in Alliance, Neb., Mr. Brockett came to Arizona from Wyoming in 1928 when he established the Beaver Creek Guest Ranch. He was a Marine veteran of World War I.

In 1933, he and Marcus J. Lawrence bought the V Bar V Ranch and Cattle Company. He was a charter member of the Rimrock American Legion and the Greater Arizona, Inc., a long time member of the Elks and a former director of the Chamber of Commerce in both Yavapai and Coconino counties.

He was chairman of the Finance Committee of the American National Association in Denver for eight years and past president and two-term chairman of the board of directors for the Yavapai Cattle Growers Association.

He was active in Forest Service work for 14 years, sitting on county, state and national boards.

There are no known survivors.

Source:

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona

Wednesday, February 10, 1971, Page 81

BRUCE DOUGLAS BROCKETT – Marine Corps

For some reason, not many men from Sheridan County enlisted in the Marine Corps. One notable exception was twenty-one year old Nebraska-born cowboy Bruce Brockett, who joined the Corps on June 1, 1918, in Billings, Montana. He was then sent to Mare Island, California, for basic training. In November 1918, just as Brockett was preparing to go to France, the armistice was signed and his dreams of battlefield glory ended. How do we know all this? Because Brockett was a poet who set his experiences down in verse. Two of the three Brockett poems published in The Sheridan Daily Enterprise (reprinted here) pretty much sum up his career with the Marines: enlistment, basic training, stateside duty, discharge. After the war, Brockett returned to the Sheridan area for a while; he worked as a cowboy for the Kendrick Cattle Company. By 1930, he was operating a dude ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, where he lived until his death in 1971. He released at least two collections of his "cowboy" poetry, one in 1930 and another in 1948.

(Letters Home - Navy trailend.org)