History & Family

Our Angus Heritage

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   Spring Cove Ranch was a dream of Arthur H. Butler. He was born in the depths of the brutal winter of January 1888 to Pleasant Bassham (1850-1932) and Sarah Frances Butler in a log cabin on Clover Creek north of the present site of Bliss, Idaho. The Butlers had left the Ozarks of Northern Arkansas and traveled overland to Clover Creek in 1883.

    In 1916, Arthur brought his bride, Effie Marie Carrico (1898-1987) to his desert home on the Snake River Plain of Southern Idaho. Together they started their family and began grubbing sagebrush and planting trees and grasses on their homestead, which Effie proudly named "Spring Cove," due to the natural spring in the cove above the farmstead. Arthur and Effie purchased Registered Percheron horses in 1916 and the first RegisteredAberdeen Angus cattle in 1919. Since then, Angus cattle and Butlers have been raised at Spring Cove. 75 Years of continuous management by the same family, on the same homestead acres, completely supported by agriculture.

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