jodywy
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some of the first registered quarter horses in this part of the country
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some of the first registered quarter horses in this part of the country
Soapweed
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Jody, did your family have a livestock brand that read "67"? When I worked for Frome in 1972, we had a black horse and a grey horse that both wore the 67 brand. It almost seems like Mont Harmon said they were Bagley horses.
jodywy
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I ask mom about that brand , think in might of been on some Texas horses we got, as most every horse here had a backward B bar on left thigh
jodywy
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got a old 1966 brand book Miller in Big Piney had 67 on left thigh. Most anybody that would know if it was a Texas brand is gone.
Soapweed
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jodywy said:
Didn't the rancher Bob Miller lose his life from a car wreck in a drag race on Main Street of Big Piney? It seems like this is what Mont Harmon told about one time.
jodywy
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I couldn't tell you, need someone on the other side of the mountain for that oneSoapweed said:
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http://www.millerlandandlivestock.com/history/History_Part_3.pdf
The ranch was known as the R.L. Miller Ranch. The 67 brand went on the hip of both cows and
horses. The ranch earmarked with a 7 on the bottom of both ears & the left ear croped. In the
1950's through 70's, the Miller Ranch owned 60,000 acres and ran anywhere from 3000 to 5000
mother cows and kept the calves until yearlings when they were sold in the fall. Large BLM
and Forest Permits were utilized for additional grazing, along with several school sections.
Tragedy struck the Miller family in August of 1970, Bobby Miller was killed on the 24th, in an automobile accident. He had had a couple drinks at the Daniel bar and was heading to Pinedale. While being passed, he swerved into the barrow-pit to keep from having a head-on and his truck hit a culvert. Bobby had internal injuries, he was conscious at first but died upon arrival to the hospital at Rock Springs. Bobby was in his prime, 36 years old.
Mike came upon the wrecked truck while with some hired hands coming down from the cabin. A policeman pried his father's Hamley saddle out of the back of the cab of the truck where it had been forcefully lodged and gave it to Mike. The young men drove onto the Rock Springs hospital where Mike was told that his dad had just passed away.
Bobby Miller had many friends and a very large funeral. He was buried on the hill south of the ranch in the graveyard that his Granddad had started when he buried his stillborn son. Bobby was a hard working, fun loving cowboy and a very appealing person. He left many friends and a big hole with his passing. His family was stunned and devastated.
The ranch was known as the R.L. Miller Ranch. The 67 brand went on the hip of both cows and
horses. The ranch earmarked with a 7 on the bottom of both ears & the left ear croped. In the
1950's through 70's, the Miller Ranch owned 60,000 acres and ran anywhere from 3000 to 5000
mother cows and kept the calves until yearlings when they were sold in the fall. Large BLM
and Forest Permits were utilized for additional grazing, along with several school sections.
Tragedy struck the Miller family in August of 1970, Bobby Miller was killed on the 24th, in an automobile accident. He had had a couple drinks at the Daniel bar and was heading to Pinedale. While being passed, he swerved into the barrow-pit to keep from having a head-on and his truck hit a culvert. Bobby had internal injuries, he was conscious at first but died upon arrival to the hospital at Rock Springs. Bobby was in his prime, 36 years old.
Mike came upon the wrecked truck while with some hired hands coming down from the cabin. A policeman pried his father's Hamley saddle out of the back of the cab of the truck where it had been forcefully lodged and gave it to Mike. The young men drove onto the Rock Springs hospital where Mike was told that his dad had just passed away.
Bobby Miller had many friends and a very large funeral. He was buried on the hill south of the ranch in the graveyard that his Granddad had started when he buried his stillborn son. Bobby was a hard working, fun loving cowboy and a very appealing person. He left many friends and a big hole with his passing. His family was stunned and devastated.
Wyoming Wind
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Soap, the 67 brand is still Miller land and livestock's brand from west of Big Piney, WY...south of my place about 40 miles. My husbands aunt is one of Bob Millers daughters. Her brother Mike runs the home place with beef cattle and he raises some pretty nice quarter horses right now. They raised Khadafy Skoal---the famous bucking horse that's in the bucking horse hall of fame...never could get him broke! Playboys Buck Fever is their super nice cowy buckskin stud they have now. Throws some very nice horse. Millers are a well known local family for sure around here...Mike has made a name for himself in the ranch horse competitions. My father in law broke many horses for them in the past too.
Soapweed
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That's interesting, Wyoming Wind. Thanks.