Orlando Alfonso Bond (1849 - 1927)

Born 22 Mar 1849 in Ashford, Cattaraugus County, New York

Died 9 May 1927 at age 78 in Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States

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Biography

Orlando Bond was involved in the "Wild, Wild West," part of the westward expansion of the United States. Join the Wild Wild West Project.

Orlando was born in 1849 in New York State^[1] the son of Sullivan and Maria Bond. His nickname "Brick" is said to have come from his brick red hair.

He moved to Minnesota as a child and then moved to the West at age 22 in 1871. He worked for the Santa Fe Railroad supplying buffalo meat and arrived in Dodge City in 1872. A prodigious buffalo hunter, it is claimed he killed over 10,000. Later he became an advocate of strict game laws to help preserve all wildlife on the Great Plains.^[2]

Brick's partner in the purchase of the Lady Gay Saloon and dance hall in 1881 was Tom Nixon, fellow buffalo hunter and Dodge City Assistant Marshal. In 1884, Brick partnered with Dodge City Mayor Alonzo Webster in the opening of The Palace Drugstore.

In his reminiscence of life on the Great Plains, R. M. Wright wrote of Brick Bond at a time in life when only seven men who had helped start Dodge City in 1872 still remained, "O. A. Bond is pointed out, by the younger generation, as the great hunter and nimrod--the man who killed so many buffalo in one day, and stood in the front ranks of the mighty hunters in early days. He is now the owner of one of our largest drug stores, and is taking life easy in his old days."^[3]

He passed away in 1927.

Sources

1. ↑ Year: 1900; Census Place: Dodge City, Ford, Kansas; Roll: T623 480; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 49.
2. ↑ Bell, Kathie, "Brick Bond", Dodge City Daily Globe, 24 May 2016, [1]
3. ↑ Wright, R.M., Personal Reminiscences of Life in Southwest Kansas, address to the Kansas State Historical Society, [2]