A drifting cowboy

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

Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Fur Trade Lives On in the Art of Yesterday

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Voyageur Canoes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XR-1-54zvY
Monday, February 6, 2017

Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

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1797, engagement for Gabriel Pinsonneau Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes I have been putting together a collection...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

Great Grandfather Canoes to Lac la Pluie (Rainy Lake)

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Jean Baptiste Meunier (Mignier) said LagassĂ© (LagacĂ©) (1776–1835), my 4th great-grandfather , was born 24 Apr 1776 in Terrebonne, Quebec...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art in my DNA

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Mom admiring my Pennsylvania Dutch folk art frame (1973) Pennsylvania Dutch art is a distinctive folk style transplanted by European...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Was granddad descended from William the Conqueror?

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The answer is a resounding maybe! In my opinion all family history gets a bit murky once you are beyond the earliest census records (Un...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Gaelic Love on Cape Cod: David, the Irishman, and Jane, the Welsh Maid

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Edited from the Dennis Historical (Massachusetts) Society Newsletter, Feb/March 2008, by Burt Derick. David O'Killia (O'Kelly) ...
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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Paddling the Upper Klamath Canoe Trail

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Located in the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge is a marked, 9.5 mile canoe trail that meanders through a large freshwater marsh. ...
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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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