Grant Gillett, youngest son of James Allen and Margaret Jane Gillett,
  came to Woodbine with his parents from Woodbine, Illinois.
       After the death of his father in 18980, he took over active operation
  of his fathers ranch.
       In 1894 he went into the cattle business.
       In 1896 he organized the famous "Cowboy Band." Instead of cowboy
  outfits, he decked them out in snappy uniforms.
       In those days special trains and private cars were at his disposal and
  he traveled extensively, taking his cowboy band with him and having it play
  at every stop. He returned to his ranch with trainloads of cattle to be fed
  and shipped on to market. On one buying trip to Texas, he shipped back
  fifteen trainloads of cattle.
       Gillett's reigh was cut short by unexpected reverses and he gave up the
  operation of the ranch and left Kansas. His older brother, James, a conserv-
  ative man, took over the ranch which he operated on a more moderate scale.
       Grant built the big stone barns on the ranch. One kept the work horses
  and the other the saddle poinies. Grant had his own blacksmith shop. They
  had many cotteges on the ranch occupied by nearly fifty cowboy employees.
  They had a large mess hall and employed a cook for the men.
       By 1898 Grant's career in the cattle business came to an end. That fall
  he sent a wire to Woodbine telling them he was leaving for Spain but instead
  went to Mexico. Three years later he was living in poverty but five years
  later he was back, saying he had obtained a valuable mine and offered his
  creditors stock to clear up his debts. Whether anyone invested no one knows
  but talk of prosecuting the cattle king of Kansas was dropped.
       Later Kansans heard he was living near Fostoria, Ohio, had acquired some
  land and was back on the road making a fortune.
       Grant Gillett died in Los Angeles, California int he early 1920's.   
                    
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg.  
          Taken from newspaper stories.