Stories from James E. Greet. ”A word about buffalo wallows. The only ones that I was aware of, were up in the mountains. They were located in a gentle drainage that would fill the wallow with snow water and not silt. No doubt, the buffalo were plagued with ticks and lice, along with their heavy…
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Reminiscing VII
I have heard dad tell of how one summer when there was enough rain to keep the grass green and enough water in the buffalo wallows that the sheep herders never had to go to water with their sheep. They also complained that their lambs’ droppings weren’t hardening up the way they liked for traveling…
Reminiscing VI
Stories by James E. Greet. We went to Grandma’s for Christmas one winter. I was probably three or four years old. It was about nine miles up the mountain to Grandma’s. Mom drove the team and buggy. The buggy didn’t have a top, but mom wrapped us kids in plenty of quilts, and I don’t…
Reminiscing V
Stories from James E. Greet. “One morning, mom wondered if there were any fresh wagon tracks on the county road past our gate, and she sent us kids to go see. George and Marjorie said yes, there were. They tried to explain to me how they could tell, but to no avail. I could see…
Reminiscing IV
Sorry about last night, somehow, I couldn’t post… I tried for 3 hours! Let’s go back to the tried and true… Reminiscing by James Greet. “There was lots of activities going on. The county road passed right along one side of our pasture. There, big bands of sheep trailed by on the road. Twelve to…
Reminiscing III
I’m thrilled you are enjoying excerpts from a small type written “book” from James E. Greet, who was one of Johnny’s brothers. Let’s continue! “Dad spaded up a garden spot about twenty foot square just behind the cabin for mom. Dad built a stockade type of fence around it from native material. Mom’s folks came…
Reminiscing II
By James E. Greet, 1991“There was the summer that the folks lived on the mountain claim with my older brother and sister and me. I was about three years old, and that would have been 1921. Our home was a one room log cabin that dad put up. It had a window in either end,…
Cold History
Not a great deal of work is going on at the moment… the boys each have small herds to feed in the morning. Every three days Vernon is on rotation to break ice for the cows in the badlands. Tractor upkeep, prepping for delivery of feed, and paperwork (plus some flu recovery) fill the days….
Photo Permission
Those of you who follow me on Facebook will have seen this already, but I know many of you aren’t on the Book of Face… so here ‘tis. I was contacted by Shannon Rollins and she asked permission to use a few of my Spring Creek Raid photographs in a video she and her husband,…
More Treasures
So many things… I left you with promises of geology and dugout history… and since then we’ve brought the cows down from the Mesa, it has snowed 7” and fallen as low as -1*, roads were nasty so I didn’t make it to my long awaited Mike Rowe show in Casper, everyone else worked and…
Display Ideas?
Vernon’s sister and brother-in-law have been here sorting through Johnny’s house. It’s a big undertaking as many people know. Johnny had cleared out much of his house, but inevitably, after living in one place for 70 years, there was still more to go through. This is one of the “winners” in the “found” objects. A…
Music of the Meadowlark
Though it threatened, no rain fell here today. The wind decided to blow instead and the road is quickly drying from its persistent breath. We helped Brandon with his cows this morning, then took a tour of the Mesa Pasture… back for lunch while we waited for the vet to show up to check something…