JD45.
About Elmer Keith.
His son Ted Keith lived down the road from us on Shamrock (what was then outside of Boise). My older sister took horse riding lessons there. I would ride my bike over and play with Elmer's grandson Greg sometimes while this was going on. Greg and I went to school together, though he was a year behind me. There were always a bunch of guns in Gregs house.
I vaguely recall his grandpa/older relatives sometimes being there but really never paid any attention as we were just kids paying and I really hardly remember much of that. Anyways, later I joined the Army and got into handgunning, and big into .44s. It was not until I was in my late teens that I realized that Greg's grandpa was actually Elmer Keith.
Keith died a few miles down the road from where I grew up, in a nursing home on Ustick Avenue in 1984. I always felt like I totally missed out by just a few years on knowing such an interesting guy. As it were I have met/known a number of locals from central ID who knew him, and my cabin is located in country he used to run around in frequently.
