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    Fire Truck Fiasco, by Steve Moreland, May 28, 2018

    Fire Truck Fiasco By Steve Moreland, May 28, 2018 My wife Carol and I and our three-year-old son Will moved to our “new ranch” ten miles northeast of Merriman, Nebraska in the spring of 1986. We trailed 300 cow/calf pairs from our old ranch, which was 20 miles south of Merriman, and arrived on...
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    SUCCESSFUL EVENING, by Steve Moreland, August 9, 2018

    SUCCESSFUL EVENING By Steve Moreland, August 9, 2018 My little four-year-old grandson George and I left the house this afternoon at 4 o’clock riding double on a Polaris Ranger. We put 23.2 miles on the speedometer before arriving back home at 7:40 p.m. In those three hours and forty minutes, we...
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    Second Spearhead branding - April 25, 2018

    Boys and toys Fellows and phones Snack time Will and Bryce Brock Carol Future cowpoke His brother And their father Sister Sybil watching the gate so I can pair out heifer calves and their mothers The lay of the land Putting the steer calves and their mothers onto a meadow...
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    Spearhead branding April 23, 2018

    Sorting cows away from calves Cows to the right, calves to the left The generator is smoking a little, but we have extra oil. Branding in progress Cows waiting to be joined with their calves The gate in front of the calf table allows heifers to be held back and steer calves to go out...
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    MILK COW MEMORIES, by Steve Moreland, April 18, 2018

    MILK COW MEMORIES By Steve Moreland, April 18, 2018 Recently Dave Burgess wrote some of his milk cow memories. His stories have inspired me to recall a few of my own. The first milk cow I remember on my dad’s ranch was a golden colored cow by the name of Genevieve. Dad bought the cow from...
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    Pictures from late March through mid April of 2018

    Foggy day in late March of 2018 Water on the way to join Bear Creek A pond in the pasture Therapy dog And another one Heading out the door. A pair of peas in a pod Their cousin Digging out and hauling hay after the April 13-14 blizzard of 2018 Sparky's outfit has chains...
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    Milk Cows…Nuff Said, by Dave Burgess, April 15, 2018

    My friend Dave Burgess shared this story today. I really liked it, and identified with some of it, and think others will enjoy it, too. Dave grew up in the Hyannis area, and is now a brand inspector at Valentine. Milk Cows…Nuff Said By Dave Burgess, April 15, 2018 If you have ever milked cows...
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    MY OTHER SHINING MOMENT IN SPORTS, by Steve Moreland, April 13, 2018

    MY OTHER SHINING MOMENT IN SPORTS By Steve Moreland, April 13, 2018 I think it was the year 1988 when Jim Gray and Dave Roth sold their ranch on the Niobrara River south of Merriman to Butch Shadbolt. They acquired the old Clyde and Bruce Weber ranch northeast of Merriman at that time. My son...
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    ONE OF MY ONLY SHINING MOMENTS IN SPORTS, by Steve Moreland, April 9, 2018

    ONE OF MY ONLY SHINING MOMENTS IN SPORTS By Steve Moreland, April 9, 2018 Sports of any kind have never really been my cup of tea. I’m not particularly athletic, and have just not had the burning passion to get too involved. My dad never encouraged me along these lines. He was never very...
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    It was cold this morning

    It has been rather cold for this time of year, and not especially good calving weather. My friend and forty-mile-away neighbor, Shane Kime, reported the weather conditions at his ranch this morning. He posted: "So cold out this morning that I had to heat up the cleanings in the microwave so...
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    Innovative concept

    http://twinvalleytrailers.com/
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    The Wreck of Freight No. 116, east of Clinton, NE 6-25-1908

    • This was on the SHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY webpage, posted September 12, 2014 - by Jerry Penry • • http://sheridancountyhistoricalsociety.com/ The Wreck of Freight No. 116 Eastbound Passenger No. 6 from Deadwood was running late on Thursday, June 25, 1908 and had not yet reached...
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    GETTING LOST By Steve Moreland, Originally Written January 23, 1999

    GETTING LOST By Steve Moreland, Originally Written January 23, 1999 This morning the fog was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Our original plans were to get up early, saddle three horses, and haul them and one other for our ranch-hand, Bill Steinmeyer, to a neighbor’s place 26 miles...
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    Kosmo Kid's letter to his daughter, originally posted August 24, 2007 in Coffee Shop

    http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20585
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    A FEW DOC BUNNER STORIESm by Steve Moreland, February 24, 2018

    A FEW DOC BUNNER STORIES By Steve Moreland, February 24, 2018 Daniel John Bunner was born May 13, 1928 to George W. Bunner and Kathryn Egan Bunner, and grew up on the family ranch near Hyannis, Nebraska. He graduated from Hyannis High School in1945, attended the University of Nebraska at...
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    Weaning day at my dad's ranch. We did it this way for many years.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1520294404735800&set=pcb.1520298848068689&type=3 This was weaning at my dad's place about fifteen or twenty years ago. We had a good sized crew, and sorted the cows away from their calves on horseback about a mile and a half away. Then the cows were...
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    Video of mule-drawn bale feeder

    https://www.facebook.com/steve.moreland.90/videos/1516024835162757/
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    FANCY STIRRUPS AND THE TROUBLES THEY CAN CAUSE

    FANCY STIRRUPS, AND THE TROUBLES THEY CAN CAUSE By Steve Moreland, February 24, 2018 Back in 1970, the first summer after I graduated from high school, I worked as a wrangler on the Moose Head Ranch in the heart of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. One of the other wranglers on this picturesque guest...
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    A FEW GOOD STORIES

    A FEW GOOD STORIES Of Things That Have Happened Over the Years By Steve Moreland, February 20, 2018 Jimmy Boeckman was an old cow trader and horse trader from Yankton, South Dakota. I first became acquainted with him when I bought a team of three-year-old Belgian geldings from him, sight...
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    LAST OF THE CODY WOLVES by Clint Anderson From the March 1968 WESTERN HORSEMAN

    LAST OF THE CODY WOLVES by Clint Anderson From the March 1968 WESTERN HORSEMAN Submitted by Steve Moreland, February 13, 2018 It was a cold winter night that was about spent, and snow covered the rolling Sand Hills. The morning passenger train, as it was called in Cody, Nebraska, was boring...
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