Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Henry Sieben
SIEBEN, HENRY (1847–1937), inducted 1934
Henry Sieben and his family emigrated from Germany to Illinois when he was five years old. At age eleven, he was orphaned, and in 1864, at age seventeen, Sieben and his brother headed west to the Montana gold fields. They worked as farmhands and freight operators, saving to purchase their first cattle. In 1875, Henry Sieben became one of Montana Territory’s first sheep ranchers. He acquired several ranches as the Sieben Livestock Company, managing them from his Helena, Montana, home. He co-founded the Montana Woolgrowers Association in 1883 and was active in the Montana Stock Growers Association. He and his wife funded and directed Montana’s first orphanage as well. In 1961, Sieben was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and in 2012, into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 178