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Unrelated to the post, but if some of you western history buffs are interested? Search out Caleb Green(e) and Ewing Young. They were the real deal, and maybe it's fortunate the novelists with the motto of 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story', didn't bother with them. Green at the age most people were pushing daisies was instrumental in rescuing the Donner Party. Young, inadvertently by an epic cattle drive over uncharted territory now known as Interstate 5, broke the chokehold of the Hudson's Bay Co on American settlers in the Willamette Valley. I personally believe the residents of Oregon and Washington might be flying a flag with a maple leaf, if a crazy mountain man hadn't decided he could move 630 head of cattle through some of the toughest terrain in the West.

I've met a few bull shipper truckers who can get nearly that many on a double deck trailer!
Jerry

Certainly. You just have to know how to stack 'em.

"In the fall of 1931 I had booked a party led by noveliest Zane Grey for a two months trip over the Middle Fork country. Zane Grey wrote the novel Thunder Mountain from this trip. He sent me a copy of it, autographed, and it was loaned to somebody. Anyway, whoever it was never brought it back. Zane Grey never paid me the $1,500 he owed me for the trip." Elmer Keith