A drifting cowboy

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

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

OUR WYNGAERT FAMILY OF DUTCH FUR TRADERS

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GENERATION 1 LUYKAS GERRITSE WYNGAERT was an Albany mainstay during the last half of the seventeenth century. He was known ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Antoine Robidoux - Santa Fe based Mountain Man and Fur Trader

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Antoine Robidoux (22 Sep 1794 – 29 Aug 1860) (my 4th cousin 6x removed) was a Santa Fe NM based fur trapper and trader of Fren...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Joseph Robidoux and our ever deepening web of fur traders

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JOSEPH ROBIDOUX IV (1783–1868), FOUNDER OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI, MY 4TH COUSIN 6X REMOVED The following is edited from wikipedia...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Tribute to ol' Montana

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My view of early Montana... a painting by Charles M Russell, "When White Men Turn Red" I’ve had a love affair with ...
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

End of an era and a cowboy lifestyle

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Zinger and Joyce in Chatsworth, 2004 On June 28th of this year we said good-bye to Zinger, a beautiful paint horse, who had ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Oliver Bailey (1738-1822) — A Hero of Two Wars

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Oliver Bailey, our 6th great-grandfather, was born 25 JUN 1738, in Haddam, Middletown, CT; and died 14 OCT 1822 in Granville Townshi...
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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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