Con Price was born in 1869 in Manchester, Iowa. His father, a Civil War veteran, died before he was ten years old. His mother remarried and the family moved west to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1878. Price got his first job as a cowboy in 1885 near Belle Fouche, South Dakota. He moved west to Montana in 1887 and continued to work on various ranches as a cowboy. Price and Claudia Toole eloped and were married in Shelby, Montana, in late 1899. Toole's uncle, Joseph K. Toole, was the governor of Montana at the time. Price published two memoirs entitled
Con Price's partially handwritten original manuscript published as
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