Are Old West Bankers and Today’s Bankers Different? Today, when I think of banks and bankers, I think of Wall Street, my home mortgage, and the banker that I used to deal with on a frequent basis to retain a line of credit for my dad’s business, Big Sky Horse Leasing. I have to say […]
People of the West
cowboys and Cowboys!
In the west there are cowboys and then there are Cowboys! Let me explain what I mean. The men that I consider to be true western Cowboys have a desire that they are born with to be on a horse for the rest of their life. They feel that any excuse they can […]
Homesteads Joined in Marriage
I live in western Montana and have always been intrigued by old abandoned homes and building that I see all over the state. One of the things that always comes to my mind when I see one of these old homesteads is the thought that someone worked very hard to try to make that place […]
True Cowboys of the West
The title of Cowboy can mean many different things in this day and age. We think of a cowboy as someone who trains horses, or rides in the rodeos, or maybe a cattle rancher who still uses horses to work cattle, but being a cowboy was something different a 100 years ago. When someone talks […]
The Millionaire Who Never Knew It
Sometimes it seems that life deliberately hides things from you until the opportunity has passed you by like a breath of wind that suddenly goes calm before you knew it was really there. Life in the west is no different. A man known simply as Dick was someone who never felt the wind of fortune, even […]
The Price of the West
The west was and is a place that brings a sort of longing for the good old days to your heart. People that came and settled the west in the homesteading days, possibly came because of that longing, but paid for it with much suffering and tears. Suffering is not the first thing that comes […]