This is an old picture that I saw lying in a box . The lady was one of our guests from South Carolina . The old homely mare was named ” lady” . It was in August many years ago I was shoeing horses in the barn when I heard ” hello hello hello” ! […]
I was 27 years old and living out my dream in the Montana wilderness . This picture here is of Bill Anderson an Orthopedic surgeon from CA! A hell of a hunter , tough , savvy , ethics , could ride , could shoot , used his meat and lived off it all year . […]
Here is the start to Hellsaroarin roarin Outfitters . We lived in this one room log cabin with two children for five years . It was as good a life as young people could want starting out . Our water line came from a gravity flow from Palmer creek . There was an old reservoir […]
Almost Christmas time and still packing in metal I beams for a bridge in the Lee Metcalf wilderness area. These were quite heavy , maybe 300 pounds each . The mules names were Jack and Jenny . Scott Sallee , Dave Poncin , myself and another helper ! It was only about 4 miles so […]
Every life has a beginning and here is I think the earliest picture of me and my dog Fatso. Behind me is our house that burned down . My Dad started building this in 1931. We had the freedom to do what we wanted growing up . There are things I looked back on when […]
Back when this country used big mules . When I was growing up , most of the mules were 13.2 to 14 hands . People would breed their little mares to a jack . These mares wouldn’t raise a good horse colt , so they figured it would raise a good mule! How wrong they […]
This Gazette story was in 2001, it’s a story of Chuck and Arlene Larsen hauling six of our horses to the inaugural parade in Washington DC ! After President Bush got elected we got the call from the Governors office asking if we could supply horses for six Montana delegates including our Governor Judy Martz […]
Sitting here in AZ looking at old photos. ” Dead eye Dick “On the right. My brother Bill Johnson back to camera , the other young man across saw blade is Roy Marchington . Not sure on others . But what really struck me is the saw blade and how ingenious they were . It’s […]
This is a picture of the Marlboro man ! This was taken during the summer of 1999.We had bought about a 1000 yearling studs In Canada and maybe 80 fillies. Most were draft cross and I’ve still got a few. I’d bought them with the promise of a couple big movie contracts. I lost most […]
This is a photo taken in 1996 of me and my brother Earl Johnson . He was 73 when this was shot . We are packing in Aimee’s oxygen bottles for her heart lung condition she had . We never let this stop us from doing things with her . She was on a” picket […]