Photos of our ancestors, old farmsteads, old barns, old cowboys, old dogs, old horses. I love all these, so photos please!!

[Faster horses]

From 1972, Bronc Riding School, Buffalo, WY. It wasn't a Roping School, I titled it wrong when I found the photo
in some old pictures. These were BRONC RIDERS.

 

[webfoot]

Too bad there isn't a list of names. I might have known some of them. But it has been too long ago to remember faces.
This is me on Ralph McLean's Boomerang Barney, fourth of July weekend 1974. Lost my house to a fire in 1984. Lost the vast majority of pictures that day.

 

[redrobin]

There's not any photos of me doing brave things.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

Somewhere north of Mitchell Or.

Old John Day Stagecoach station Dooley Mtn. Or

Near the Umatilla River

Echo Or

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

Morgan Oregon old range cabin

Holman Or

Reith Or

 

[webfoot]

The branding I was at today is what the family refers to as the homestead. It is at the location of the family homestead. They got there via the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. This place was a stop over on the Oregon Trail. The original family there built a black smith shop to service the travelers. There is the remains of a couple of the old buildings. I was going to take pictures before I left, and I forgot. I did take a picture of the old hay derrick. Then on the way home I snapped a picture of the old Plano school. The 92 year old matriarch of this family went to grade school in this building.

 

[leanin' H]

Pictures of the old Clyde place south of my grandparents ranch about 18 miles. Once there were over twenty ranches that had folks living on them year round. Now there are none.

 

[DosArroyos]

It is hard for a man to have any real future if he has no sense of history

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

1960 The Blackfoot Reservation Montana
I was 10 and one of the ladies took me out
so I could get this photo safely.

 

[leanin' H]

It is hard for a man to have any real future if he has no sense of history

Man I love that!!! I feel the same way. A person needs to look behind them from time to time to gain perspective.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

MC all gussied up headed to town in 1980.
I built this cabin, fell all the logs, and sawed all the lumber.
Now my body is paying the price for my foolishness.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

My Texas Family Ranch House 1850
My Great Grandma was born in it

 

[Faster horses]

Pretty neat, Mountain Cowgirl. Pretty darn neat!! You are blessed with a great talent. Thanks for sharing these photos.
Amazing work!

 

[Faster horses]

My dad, Ralph Watkins. 1938 Buffalo Wy. Love his boots.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

 

[Faster horses]

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WOW. You don't see that everyday!