Bryant Butler Brooks (February 5, 1861 – December 8, 1944) was an American businessman, rancher, politician, oilman, banker and published author.

After attending a business college in Chicago, Bryant headed west to Alexandria, Nebraska to work on a ranch and farm operation owned by his father's cousin, Judge L.D.

At the Big Muddy, he traded six beaver traps and a sack of flour for a trapper's old sod-roofed log cabin.

Bryant and Mary were married in Alexandria, Nebraska, where she was a school teacher living with parents, Judge Lockhart Dickman Willard and Olive Hester Clark.

He was survived by his wife Mary and their five children, four girls and one boy – Jeanie, Abby, Lena, Melissa and Silas.

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the state capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming.