Lewis Rice "Broadhorns" Bradley (February 18, 1805 – March 21, 1879) was an American politician who was the second Governor of Nevada from 1871 to 1879.

[1] When he was thirteen years old, his father died and he quit school and became a mule trader to support his mother and his many younger siblings.

In 1852, Bradley and his son, John R. Bradley,[3] bought a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle and pushed them west, earning him the nickname "Old Broadhorns", and arriving in the San Joaquin Valley, California, with a 40% loss.

The winter and spring floods of 1861 and 1862 ruined their lands, and the Bradleys moved to Nevada where he worked in the cattle business in Elko County, near Jiggs.

[4] Bradley, running for governor, bought a defunct newspaper, "The Daily Inland Empire", used it as a campaigning tool, then let it go under again.