In among collected old photos was this calendar from 1965. The photo’s caption is “Roundup Crew on Nowood River – 1908”. While not directly linked to us, there are many degrees of interest here. In 1908, the Greets were still on their homestead on Spring Creek, but one year later, they would move to our…
Category: History
#TBT: Stationery
Johnny has loaned me a box of old letters, and I’m just beginning to sift through the crispy paper decoratively topped by the fading ink of fountain pens and three cent stamps. My eye was caught by this stationery from the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne. Who wouldn’t want to write on this? And then frame…
#TBT :The Beginning
The twins, Frank, on the left, and Fred, on the right, settled with their older siblings and parents on Spring Creek, south of Ten Sleep, Wyoming. Thus began the story of Greet Ranch. This photo was taken “about 1895”. I played with the intensity and light a bit, revealing even in more detail, the sunlight…
The Big Tipi
Another adventure… This time to Lost Cabin, Wyoming for a tour of The Big Tipi, aka J.B. Okie’s mansion. Known as the Sheep King of Central Wyoming, he was an intelligent businessman with big plans. I’ve driven past this house FOREVER… Well, ever since I’ve been married… and have wondered about it. I’ve wanted to…
#TBT: Where Were You?
July 20, 1969 My dad called me in from playing outside. I whined pitifully, preferring to hulahoop, or play some game with my friends, or something Very Important to my ten year old self. “Get in here, now! Someday you’ll be happy to tell your grandkids you watched the first man walk on the moon!”…
Wordless Wednesday – “Openness”
Homestead Puzzle
#TBT: Winter Cows
Since some of you are suffering through a heat wave… This goes back to 1930’s? winter time… snow on the ground… Herefords on the hill. (Thanks to J.A.G. – who posts old family photos so I can steal some of them and post them here!)
#TBT: Buffalo Bill Museum
A photo postcard from the Buffalo Bill Museum… no date. Very interesting to locals as it is now composed of five different museums… The Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Draper Natural History Museum, and The Plains Indian Museum. Definitely a worthy stop if you’re traveling to Yellowstone Country and Cody,…
#TBT: Two Cowboys
Two cowboys pose in front of our bunkhouse… part of which you can see here, as well. Looks like it doesn’t even have its sod roof yet! No names. No date.
#TBT: Branding Dinner
Feeding the branding crew has always been a Big Deal. Everyone is working hard and has quite the appetite. This branding would have been on the top of the mountain, creating challenges of its own. Heat would be a campfire or what could be brought up in a wrapped pot to keep it as warm…
#TBT: Working Team
A hired man drives the team raking hay on the Greet Ranch. 1920’s photo.
#TBT: Roundup Camp
Roundup camp, 1907, Bates Creek, Wyoming. Photo by Oscar Hoback. Notice the cowboys at rest under the canvas taken off the wagon.