A drifting cowboy

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

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Chatsworth Equine Cultural Heritage Organization's Parting Gift

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This plaque located on the old Iverson Movie Ranch at the Garden of the Gods filming location pays homage to six-gun heroes and their ga...
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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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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