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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Cowboys

I have been going through some old family photos and scanning them into my computer. The photo below is of Brad's maternal grandfather, C.C. Dobson 1877 - 1947. The picture was taken in 1901.
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I enhanced it and this was was reveled;
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C.C. Dobson was the town butcher and farmed about a mile downstream of Brad's paternal grandfather, B.J. Lyons.

This is a picture of B.J. Lyons from his book, 'Thrills and Spills of a Cowboy rancher'. B. J. is on the darker horse on the right. This picture was taken in 1952 when B. J. would have been 83 years old.
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It's been over 120 years and we're still living on and farming B.J.'s original homestead. It hasn't been easy at times, but we're still here.

1 comment:

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I love the old photos! And I love that you're still on the family land. I bet there aren't many who can say that.