Background
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1907, he was the son of Grizelda and Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1907, he was the son of Grizelda and Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Hobson attended Stanford University before moving to Wyoming and forming a partnership with Panhandle "Pan" Phillips.
His books, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, and The Rancher Takes a Wife, inspired a Canadian Broadcasting Company television program (Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy). His father was a congressman, a United States. Navy admiral, and a decorated veteran of the Spanish–American War. The pair traveled north to British Columbia in the early 1930s, formed the Frontier Cattle Company and established Home Ranch north of Anahim Lake in the Chilcotin.
When his partnership with Phillips ended in the 1940s, Hobson moved to the Vanderhoof area and continued ranching.
He died there in 1966. Hobson"s first book, Grass Beyond the Mountains (1951), recalled his early years in British Columbia and the hardships he and Phillips endured in establishing their ranch.
lieutenant was first published in serial form by Maclean"s magazine. The next volume, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1955), covered the difficulties of maintaining the ranch during the shortages caused by World World War World War II His final book, The Rancher Takes a Wife (1961), detailed his life as a married rancher in Vanderhoof.
His books inspired a Canadian Broadcasting Company television program, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy.