Margaret Louise Yates Buyer
June 18, 1930 – September 22, 2023
Margaret Louise Yates Buyer was born in 1930 in Aurora, Illinois. She had one older sister Ruth, a school teacher, and two younger brothers. Her dad was head of the Chamber of Commerce and moved the family to Albuquerque New Mexico when Margie was 12.
This is when she fell in love with the West.
She raised rabbits to feed the family during the Depression and saved her coins to ride at a nearby stable every Saturday.
They then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado , where she graduated high school. She went to Colorado State University in Ft Collins, CO and was an expert marksman on the rifle team. She then worked at the San Antonio stockyards, the Hartsel Hereford ranch in Hartsel Colorado, and the Terryall River Dude Ranch.
She met and married local rancher John R. Buyer (“Micky”) and had two children, John D. Buyer and Melody A. Skiver.
In 1964 she moved with Mick, a three-year-old son and an infant daughter to a remote cattle ranch in northwest Wyoming. There she lived and worked on the ranch for the next 20 years.
But the snow blew her to Arizona where she ran cattle, was a Cowbelle, and drove her teams of horses, and various wagons, including the 100 miles wagon train from Ft. Huachuca to Patagonia with Anne C. Stradling.
She raised Harlingen Horses and White Park Cattle. But she was famous for her chuckwagon dinners at her Poco Toro Ranch, where she hosted many a gatherings and a wedding or two. She met and married Charlie Davis and continued her Western lifestyle.
She was the first woman to be filmed for Marlboro cigarettes and the first woman to make it over Union Pass in Wyoming on a snowmobile.
She will be remembered for her food, parties and fun and her love of the West and Mountains. She will be buried in Fairplay, Colorado.