Archive for October, 2009

Posted on October 9, 2009 - by Hubba

More Fall Work

After I get done writing about the “Disaster of ‘89,” and write about the “Adventure of ‘90″ I can write about the “Adventurous Disaster of ‘92.”  All of these, in case you hadn’t guessed, are stories of our ill-fated cattle drives. (more…)

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Posted on October 5, 2009 - by Hubba

HH Vcast Program; Twisted Tree

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Posted on October 2, 2009 - by Hubba

The Summer of ‘89, Cont.

Ok it’s close enough now I can tell the rest of the story.

The cows had been up at Cascade Springs in the Black Hills since mid July.  Except for maybe Dad going to check on them we had pretty much forgotten about them.  But Dad had made a plan to gather them into a set of corrals up there, sort the calves off and send them to Edgemont to sell, and haul the cows home.  We called all the neighbors and got ready.

We all assembled at our place on a balmy October afternoon.  All except Dad that is, who went to get his truck.  He had an ancient cabover semi with a wooden straight trailer that he had the brakes overhauled for the trip to the Hills.

So there we were, about seventeen of us, waiting in the yard.  At the tender age of ten, I was wearing a set of Crockett spurs that I had found in the barn a few months before.  My horse Dan had proven impervious to the children’s spurs I had gotten the Christmas before, so I had dug up Dad’s old Crocketts from the barn.  He had been a little shocked, and reluctant to let me use them, but he had relented, partly because Dan got more done at their insistence. (more…)

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