Nevada State Journal, Monday, June 14, 1971 Historical Market Honors Pioneer Nevada Rancher Winnemucca-- Dedication of a Nevada historical market honoring Frank J. Button will be held today at 2 PM at Button's Point, about 15 miles east of Winnemucca on Interstate 80. The ceremony will be conducted under the co-sponsership of Vernon Robbins Post No. 5, American Legion, the Nevada Historical Society and Nevada State Highway Department. The highway department will be represented by Frank Smyth, relations officer. Button will be represented posthumously by his grand-daughter, Leonore Conway of Sacramento and Victor Button, a grandson, of Winnemucca and Sacramento. Winnemucca Councilman Hughle J. Schoff will be master of ceremonies and introduce state and Humboldt county officials who will participate. Button will preside at the momument's unveiling ceremony while Lesle Stewart, past president of the Nevada State Cattle Association, and Leland Berk will review the elder Button's pioneer past covering the Nevada Territorial era in Northern and eastern Humboldt County. Frank Joseph Button was born April 29, 1855 in Danby Four Corners, Vt. and at the age of 9 moved with his parents, Joseph and Melissa Button to California via a windjammer trip around Cape Horn to San Francisco, thence overland to Petaluma. After receiving his secondary education at Santa Rosa High School, he attended North Pacific Methodist College at Santa Rosa. Button and his uncle, I. V. Button, came to Humboldt County in 1873. They brought 600 head of cattle and arrived in Winnemucca where they settled , pending securing ranching property. Going north, they took over the Double Square Ranch in the Midas area. It was purchased from an Indian for a saddle horse and $50. The ranch, which was later to become two ranches, covered 4,000 square miles of range. The Double Square Ranch was at first a cattle spread, but horses were valuable then and the Buttons soon converted, amassing a herd of several thousand head of horses. "The State of Nevada was famous for fine horses and no branding iron better symbolized that reputation than the Double Square of I. V. and F. J. Button," a Humboldt resident said. Besides Button's ranching activities, he also became a member of one of the earliest Humboldt County boards of commissioners.