A drifting cowboy

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

The Skipper of Point Prim: Findlay MacDonald and the Selkirk Settlers

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  Every family tree has its quiet giants—men and women whose grit laid the groundwork for everything that came after. On our MacDonald branc...
Monday, September 28, 2026

From the Isle of Colonsay to the Red Soil of PEI: The Voyageur Bloodline of the Munns

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  Every branch of our family tree seems to find its way to water and wilderness. Long before our ancestors rode the trails of Southern Calif...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

A Preacher in Royalist Virginia: The Faith and Fortune of Rev. William Thompson

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  Every genealogist knows the satisfaction of uncovering an ancestor whose life intersected with the defining trials of early America. A new...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Our English Savage–French–Mason Lines

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  From Cheshire Knights to the Montana Frontiersmen In the turbulent Cheshire of the mid-15th century, Sir John Savage of Clifton navigated ...
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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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