A drifting cowboy

An old cowboy's thoughts about horses, canoes, fishing, art, movies, family, and the American West

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Our Head Family: Tied to valleys' heads, mills' hum, and rivers' flow

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  Our ancestors primarily resided in rural villages and hamlets in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, during the 17th and 18th centuries. The...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

1917, Retirement from the Royal Gun and Carriage Factory

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Stephen John & Susannah (Avery) Head c. 1910 The inscription on Stephen John Head's retirement watch from November 1917, referencing...

From ancient New Forest across storm-tossed seas to Yankee shores

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  1887  View from Mary Magdalen Church Woolwich (Church Hill) across the Thames towards Plumstead A tale of our English Family Heritage… In ...
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My goal in writing this blog is to answer to the questions I wish I had asked my granddad... I am a horseman, a canoeist, a Western movie historian, a genealogist, and a folk artist. My cowboy and voyageur legacy can be back-trailed for more than twelve generations in North America.
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