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Jack Morton, 1879-1944, was born in the Balmoral district of Manitoba, and came to southern Alberta in 1891. He settled in the Rosebud area in 1901 with Jose Sala and married Jose's daughter, Carmen. He named his ranch the CX and later expanded his holdings to include the Bragg Ranch and Pacific Cold Storage Ranch near Standard, the Two Bar Ranch near Wayne and the XC ranch near Cochrane. The Morton family farmed and raised horses which they sold to neighbours and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Jack and Carmen had five children, Lucy (Cunningham), Charlotte (Donnelly), Clare (Barton), Allan and Frances (Leahy).
For further information see Wild Horse Jack : The Legend of Jack Morton / Grant MacEwan. -- Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983; Glen Mikkelsen's article "Wildhorse Jack's Half-Mile of Hell" in Old West. -- vol. 35, no. 4 (Summer 1999), p. 29-31; and Stone Gods and Haunted Schoolhouses : Nostalgia and Vernacular Local History in Rosebud, Alberta, 1960-1983 / Janene Rae Holman. -- unpublished MA thesis, University of Calgary, 2015.