gnoahhh,

I also knew Jim pretty well--and consumed quite a bit of whiskey/whisky with him.

Did he ever tell you the tale about how he traded the family car (the ONLY family car) for several old Winchester lever-rifles, and had to wire Sylvia for bus-fare money to get home? (Years later those rifles paid for one of their kid's college education.)

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck