A drifting cowboy

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

Friday, November 14, 2025

The Arsenal’s Shadow and the Home Builder’s Dream

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  1887  View from Mary Magdalen Church Woolwich (Church Hill) across the Thames towards Plumstead This is a story of incredible resilience, ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

A saga of Colonsay’s McNeill clan, and their PEI arrival

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A saga of Colonsay’s McNeill clan, and their PEI arrival In the mist-shrouded crags of Argyll, Scotland, where the relentless Atlantic gales...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Gunner's Gamble: John Headd in the Yellow Fever Wars (1795–1798)

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💣 Gunner's Gamble: John Headd in the Yellow Fever Wars (1795–1798) I. The Embarkation (Portsmouth, November 1795) John Headd was a ma...
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Drifting Cowboy
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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