Carl “Red” Mathisen

1912 - 1998
Daniel

Carl Philip Mathisen, who was born September 1, 1912, was known to everyone in Sublette and Fremont Counties as “Red” because of his hair. He was truly a cowboy in the basic sense of the word. For 63 years he was paid to care for other ranchers’ herds from the back of a horse. By the age of 15, he joined his brother Walter on Twin Creek and cared for cattle for the Cattlemen’s Association for about 15 years. He had a lifetime partnership, which began on January 1, 1941, when he married Maxine Feery. He tied the knot and swept her off to a lovely sheep wagon in the middle of nowhere for the winter. Red and Maxine moved cattle herds and that sheep wagon around Fremont County for a few years before finally moving to Boulder, in the winter of 1948-49. Then, though out of the sheepwagon, they were snowed in all winter. The Mathisens raised two children, Gary and Kathleen (Seeley). Red cowboyed at the Bar Cross for 20 years, Upper Green River Cattle Assn. “The Drift” for 12 years, and Johnny Vible’s ranch for seven years.