Home Ranch Research Paper

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This has to start with how the home ranch was acquired. It was a wedding gift to mother and dad from her parent’s john and Mary Pearce. They were married on June 10, 1910 in the Methodist Church which at that time was on the corner of Broadway and Ewing. Neither I nor anyone else ever told me how he met my mother. It could be they met in Marysville since mother was born there and lived nearby in Bald Butte or it could have been when the Pearce’s lived in the valley and Dad worked on a ranch also in the valley. I can only guess as to how they met. I have come to realize there were many things I was never told. Our house consisted of 3 small bedrooms, front room (small), kitchen (also small) and a pantry. Mother and Dads room had…show more content…
We still had time for fun such as sleigh rides down the road in front of our house, skiing in one of the fields that had a steep slope (these skis were hand made by Dads cousin Augie (August Johnson) or Ice skating on one of the three fishing pons we had. Our skates were the kind that clamped onto your shoes. No fancy shoe skates like you have now. As we skated the clamps would loosen and you would have to stop and tighten them. There was also a strap that went around your ankle that kept them from falling completely off. Quite often all of us would go for a ride in the horse drawn sleigh to visit some of our neighbors and good many times we would go the 8 miles to the Canyon Creek Store and to the post office. The snow should be so deep on the road a sleigh was the only form of transportation that could get you where you needed to go. Dad had a set of bells that hooked onto the horse’s harnesses and would jingle all the way. He would put hay on the sleigh and we would cover up with a big old fur robe. We all wore heavy long underwear and well mighty glad to do so to keep warm. My Uncle Bill Blakley herd sheep around White Sulphur Springs and while he sat on his horse and watched sheep he would knit mittens for everyone for Christmas. They were heavy and warm and we sure did appreciate getting…show more content…
In about 1933 or 1934 Dad and my brother Ed had gone to Chateau or Conrad (can’t remember which for sure) to look at a service station Ed was interested in taking over. After they had left some of our horses got out and had to be caught and put back in the field. Helen and I and Ed’s girlfriend Fern Aagard were alone on the ranch. We decided to take the Chevy and drive to the neighbor’s house and get help to catch the horses. The neighbor’s son came with us to help. On the way home Helen fainted and the car went over the bank hitting a tree. Helen broke some ribs; Fern hit her arm on the cigarette lighter which left a ring on her arm for some time. I hit my jaw broke half of one tooth off and knocked another tooth out leaving it hanging my some skin. The young man we had with us was not hurt at all. Helen had been sick all day and fainted once more after she got out of the car. Another neighbor came along and picked us up and was going to take us to town to the Doctor. We then met another neighbor who did take us to town to Dr. Hawkins. He taped Helen’s ribs and put me to sleep with either so he could check my jaw but I could barely open my month for a long time. All of that was done in the Dr’s office. You didn’t go the emergency room in those days. When I got into high school in 1939 finally had the broken tooth capped. That was a lot of years to go with a broken tooth on top

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