A.C. HUIDEKOPER (1845-1928)
Owner of Large Horse Breeding Operation Helped Build Southwestern N. D.

One of the largest horse breeding operations in the U.S., at the turn of the twentieth century, was located in North Dakota. In 1885, A. C. Huidekoper organized the Little Missouri Horse Company in what is now southwestern North Dakota. At one time, “he had 12,000 horses running on hundreds of miles of open range.”