Mrs.Greg said:
Congrates Soapweed,I love that picture!Actually love anything to do with teams and pulling. Greg fed square bales for years with a team.
We had a nieghbor,great cowboy and story teller,he was a master at the 18 horse hitch. Anytime he drove that hitch greg and I were there watching in total awe.Lost him a few years ago in a bad accident not far from our place....Rusty's missed and talked about all the time.They just don't make cowboys like that anymore
Thank you, Mrs. Greg. Here are a few more pictures from that era of my life.
The Paint was one of the best cow horses I have ever owned. I bought him when he was four years old, in 1974. When he was 18 yars old, I traded him to a girl for a 4-H horse. Her dad traded me a two-seated completely restored buggy straight across for the horse. I still think of Ol' Paint every time I hook up the buggy. In the background is Peach handling the lines of the Rushmore Four.
I took this picture of my six-horse feed team in 1978 at my dad's Green Valley Hereford Ranch. Mike Paulick is up on top with a pitchfork. He worked there at the time.
Christmas card pictures from 1981. The top one was from Peach and me. She is standing by the haysled.
The next Christmas card was the one my folks' sent that year. Dad's paint horse is on the left and mine is on the right. They were two top horses, and we had a lot of friendly competition vying for who had the best horse.
The bottom picture is the Christmas card my cousin and his bride sent in 1981, of a pack trip they were on the previous summer. It was in the Teton Wilderness Area in Wyoming. I worked for that outfitter in 1971, and my cousin worked for them in 1975 and 1976. He and his family went back a few times through the years to take in an occasional pack trip.