A drifting cowboy

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

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Cowboy Wisdom -- Halters and horse sense

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One of Bob DeRoche's saddle horses on a trail ride high above Wapiti, Wyoming I have some strong opinions about halters E...

Cowboy Legacy -- Looking north to Canada

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Annie McNeil with son Leonard in Detroit, MI about 1915 Annie McNeil, my grandmother, was of Scotch-Irish descent.  Her mother's gra...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Cowboy Chic -- Come sit a spell

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After I began "Lure of the Dim Trails" in 1989, I contacted the son of the late Thomas C. Molesworth (1890–1977) to obtai...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Garden of the Gods

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All of my meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch blogs are stories about movie location ranches that once existed in Chatsworth, California, my home...
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Cowboy Culture -- A "bombproof horse" anyone can ride

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Most horses are flight animals; that means their first reaction is to run from danger.  However,  I have one named "Ready Cash" th...

British Legacy -- Born 1826 in Newfoundland

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1902 photo courtesy of Ron Foster a distant cousin in England   Margaret Wilkie (far left in the 1902 photo above) was born March 2...

Cowboy Culture -- Running mount to the high jump

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Six-gun heroes who did exciting horse tricks were always a big hit with me.  I especially loved to watch some of the extraordinary ...
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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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