Ranch Picture and some history 3-23-2013

[jodywy]

Ranch Pictures today the first picture I zoomed in too close but it is Tom's Canyon named for Wild bunch Outlaw Tom McCarty, Whom spent some time on a homestead close to the Canyon. It is a long canyon that you can drop into 4-5 other canyons. The second Canyon is Martha's name after the wife he took when in Star valley (Sarah Lemberg , but understand she went by Martha)

Matt and Tom spent the winter of 1889-1890 in Star Valley, south of Jackson, Wyoming on the Idaho-Wyoming border, using the names Tom Smith and Matt Willard. Matt married a fourteen-year-old girl named Rosa Rumel. Tom's wife had died and he married Sarah Lemberg.

Hard times fell on Star Valley that winter and the only storekeeper in Afton, Wyoming refused to extend any credit. Matt and Tom held him at gunpoint while the settlers took what they needed, then paid the man half his price. Such antics, to some extent probably apocryphal, were not necessarily done from any Christian charity; every outlaw knew he would need a place to lay up for a while and these acts of generosity with someone else's money bought a lot of friends.

As the valley became more accessible that Spring, so did Matt and Tom. Moving on again, the two outlaws and their wives went to Butte, Montana where they blew the rest of their proceeds from Telluride. When the money was nearly gone, the wives were sent back to Star Valley; Matt and Tom headed out to Haines, Oregon.

http://www.rockincherokee.com/The%20Wild%20Bunch.htm

 

[jodywy]

gee typical women stay till the money is gone :shock: