From the fall of 1875 through the spring of 1876 F.H. Maynard worked for W. B. Grimes wintering cattle in the Medicine Lodge country (U.S.A.). Indians again caused trouble for the cowboys,and after repeated skirmishes in which the cattlemen refused to give over any beef, the Indians set fire to the prairie (Indian Nation) in an effort to burn the cattlemen out (Indian Nation). Those who had been wintering below the line in the Cherokee Outlet (Indian Nation) were forced to move their herds out of Indian Territory (Indian Nation) and back into Kansas (Medicine Lodge/U.S.A.). That was the winter, by the way,during which Francis Henry Maynard wrote "The Dying Cowboy". in the United States of America.