NATIONAL WESTERN COURTENAY C. DAVIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP HONORING CLIFFORD P. HANSEN

After graduating from Princeton University in 1924, Courtenay C. Davis continued his education by receiving his law degree from Northwestern Law School. He then went on to practice law in Chicago and purchased the Y Cross Ranch in Horse Creek, Wyoming, in 1941. After a few more years of working in Chicago, Courtenay moved to the ranch, where he actively ranched and lived the rest of his life. The Davis family donated the ranch to the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University in 1998. Clifford P. Hansen, former Wyoming governor and U.S. senator, and Courtenay became close friends and worked together in the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. They were able to maintain this friendship based on mutual respect for many years.