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Soapweed said:How is your novel coming along, nr? Seems like ages ago when you and Craig stopped by. Tell him "hi."
nr said:Soapweed said:How is your novel coming along, nr? Seems like ages ago when you and Craig stopped by. Tell him "hi."
Well, I wrote some of my ranchersnet friends into the novel (in one form or another) your ranch being one used for description, Soapweed.
Yes agreed. Though this is a cross between actual history, much of it comes straight from the diaries, but then had to be padded out. So does it sound believable that there was a Spearhead Ranch in California in 1853 that grew PEACHES?Soapweed said:nr said:Soapweed said:How is your novel coming along, nr? Seems like ages ago when you and Craig stopped by. Tell him "hi."
Well, I wrote some of my ranchersnet friends into the novel (in one form or another) your ranch being one used for description, Soapweed.
So is the novel completed yet? Sounds like quite a project. It is hard enough trying to tell the truth, let alone coming up with believable fiction. :wink:
nr said:Yes agreed. Though this is a cross between actual history, much of it comes straight from the diaries, but then had to be padded out. So does it sound believable that there was a Spearhead Ranch in California in 1853 that grew PEACHES?Soapweed said:nr said:Well, I wrote some of my ranchersnet friends into the novel (in one form or another) your ranch being one used for description, Soapweed.
So is the novel completed yet? Sounds like quite a project. It is hard enough trying to tell the truth, let alone coming up with believable fiction. :wink:
nr said:And raised FASTER HORSES?
Some folks did really well back then. And then there were our relatives...Martin Jr. said:I knew that there was a Louis Rubidoux (Robidou) who was born in St. Louis, MO, that had a large ranch in California and had a winery and a flour mill in the 1800's.
Ancestry.com tells me that I am his 3rd cousin 4 times removed.
His brother Joseph Robidoux, founded St. Joseph, MO.
That sounds like a fascinating family tree you've got. It would be so interesting if we could find out all the people we are genetically related to, where they came from and their life stories way back in time. I wanna be a Time Traveler in a time machine.Martin Jr. said:The Robidou's didn't always do that well. I had a great, great grandfather, Joseph Etienne Robidou, who was listed on a baptism record around 1800, at St. Regis, New York as a "poor beggar living on Indian lands".
The Robidou's were my grandmother's line, the first one to come to Canada (from Spain, not France) Andre, had two sons and two daughters and after his death his widow married Jacques Surprenant. Pierre Elliott Trudeau's grandmother was a Surprenant, a descendant of Jacques.
There were Trudeau's back a few generations on Dad's father's family too.
Martin Jr. said:The Robidou's didn't always do that well. I had a great, great grandfather, Joseph Etienne Robidou, who was listed on a baptism record around 1800, at St. Regis, New York as a "poor beggar living on Indian lands".
The Robidou's were my grandmother's line, the first one to come to Canada (from Spain, not France) Andre, had two sons and two daughters and after his death his widow married Jacques Surprenant. Pierre Elliott Trudeau's grandmother was a Surprenant, a descendant of Jacques.
There were Trudeau's back a few generations on Dad's father's family too.
LOL-That gives me an idea, Katrina. If I posted part of the ranching chapter that includes a few of you (in a variety of favorable and unfavorable forms) who I've met through Ranchers, would you critique it for credibility and other problems, if you think that would be fun?katrina said:I'm thinking we need a book club and review on here...LOL