When a Dollar was a Dollar

[dryheat]

Oh please.. tell me how I was looking to argue?

Take a break.


Quote Originally Posted by Vern Humphrey View Post
I'm very familiar with that area. My folks lived a bit Northeast of there, around Meridian, East of Guthrie.

I was in Guthrie a few years back and saw a historical marker, "The mustering in of the Roughriders." What!! My grandfather was 20 years old, unmarried and he DIDN'T join the Roughriders?

I learned later that territories and states were given quotas. Oklahoma's quota was one troop -- and they got enough volunteers to form another regiment, if they had been allowed.
I have a picture along the west side of my G'parents house in Yukon after the left the farm. The land falls off down to the street and looking north across the farms. This "groove" in the land is where the Old Chisolm Trail passed west of Yukon. The groove is about 100 yds wide with homes built in it and up along the other side. The groove / path was worn by the thousands (millions?) of cattle going down to the lower ground toward the North Canadian River crossing. From a point off in the distance, looking back toward town, you could clearly see the cut in the bank in the winter time when all the leaves were off the trees.

As an aside, the old Route 66 is the main street of Yukon. Last time I was there in 2018, it looked the same as when I was a kid. Shops and Stores are different, but buildings are still the same. The pool hall is still the pool hall. I assume it is being preserved as historical landmark. I- 40 passes th the south about 5 mi. All my family from my GG'parents to my Mother and Father are buried in the Yukon Cemetary.

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A nice house but not real old time. I have seen Yukon mentioned in OK before, but it's strange. I was raised just S of the arctic circle in Fairbanks AK. Yukon came up occasionally. Even growing up in the country I was never sure where the Yukon was. I think it's mostly in Canada.
But the Old Chisolm Trail is some real history. Songs were written about it. McMurtry based Lonesome Dove on the cattle drives. Mostly about Goodnight and Loving (names, not a suggestion).

[PWC]

Dryheat - The house was built in 1956, when my G'parents had to leave the farm. Sons and son-in-laws came from OK and CA to build it for them. I was 12 and helped with original roofing. Learned the hard way you don't hold a roofing nail the same way you hold a 6 penny nail.

[Vern Humphrey]

When my grandpa first came to Oklahoma, everyone had to work. He worked punching cattle in the Cherokee Strip, and later was eligible to join a very prestigious organization, the Cherokee Strip Cow Puncher's Association, formed by Joe Miller of the 101 Ranch. He met and knew the great men of the Chisholm Trail, Shanghai Pierce, Charlie Goodnight and so on,

[rayg]

Dry heat was your post, "take a break" meant for me?

[dryheat]

Just the arguement in general.
I like to say I was raised in a log cabin but thats only a little true. This picture is from a 1949 Nat Geo. The old timer died and my dad knew him. His relatives let us live in the cabin for a summer while our house was being built, about 1955. I loved it there. I was about four yrs at the time. I have a couple pictures of us at the place.

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$ When my dad retired from Civil Service in the early sixties he was making about $4.00 and hr.

[lyman]

speaking of old houses,

my maternal grandparents managed (not owned) a Dairy farm for a couple business partners,

the house on the farm was built in 1835, updated sometime in the 1880's or so, and again in the 10's or 20's (kitchen and bathroom added to the house)

when my Grandfather passed (drowned while fishing on the James) my Grandmother moved into a home they owned down the road a bit (after my father and paternal grandfather rebuilt it)

the old farmhouse was yuge, heart pine flooring, lots of walnut fixtures, and solid,
probably needed to have the flues relined, and a good paint job, but otherwise in decent shape for the age,


dipxxxx that bought the farm (the owners sold out not long after Grandpa died) thought it had termites, and tore it , the original kitchen builiding/ butlers quarters, and all the outbuildings down,
not a termite or evidence found in the rubble,


and he tore up thousands of $$$ in recyclable lumber

[PWC]

Every family has a story. I've never seen an uninteresting one. Not all "modern children or grand children are interested, unfortunately. They may bee too wrapped up making their place in the sun.

I'm the black sheep, and my FAMILY, was never allowd to know my "family", so they aren't really interested in their geneology. I have a female cousin that has no children, nephews or neices to leave her's to, so she contacted the county library where her father's family came from. She has county and family info back to pre Civil War in her hostory. They are willingly taking it, and for doing so, she is leaving a small endowment.

[dryheat]

Yeah, holding a roofing nail like a real nail might get you a sore finger or two.