Born in
Washington, D.C., in 1907, he was the son of Grizelda Houston Hull Hobson and
Richmond Pearson Hobson. His father was a congressman, a U.S. Navy admiral and a decorated veteran of the
Spanish–American War. Hobson attended
Stanford University before moving to
Wyoming and forming a partnership with Panhandle "Pan" Phillips. The pair traveled north to British Columbia in the early 1930s, formed the Frontier Cattle Company and established Home Ranch north of
Anahim Lake in the
Chilcotin. When his partnership with Phillips ended in the 1940s, Hobson moved to the
Vanderhoof area and continued ranching. He and his wife Gloria (1921–1986) Hobson's first book,
Grass Beyond the Mountains (1951), recalled his early years in British Columbia and the hardships he and Phillips endured in establishing their ranch. It was first published in serial form by ''
Maclean's magazine. The next volume, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
(1955), covered the difficulties of maintaining the ranch during the shortages caused by World War II. His final book, The Rancher Takes a Wife'' (1961), detailed his life as a married rancher in Vanderhoof. He died August 8, 1966, from a coronary attack. == References ==