Showing posts with label Sunlight Era. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunlight Era. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Horses and an Unidentified Woman at Sunlight Early 1930s


As many countless times as I have seen this photo from Mother's collection, I never noticed until I blew it up that a woman was standing by the horse on the right.

Monday, June 29, 2009

The Old Dewey Riddle Ranch in Sunlight, Wyoming

Louise and I were just talking about her recent trip to the class reunion in Powell. Cheryl and Lynn took her over Dead Indian into Sunlight, where our great-aunt Elsie (Krajicek) and her husband, Dewey Riddle, had one of the first dude ranches in the area. Dad worked on that ranch, and it was there one summer that Mother came to work as a cabin girl, in between teaching school. Mail was received at a little post office called Paint Creek. I thought that I had posted this website on the blog before, but couldn't find it - goodness, we have a lot of postings!
Anyway, if you will go to this website, you will find the picture of the present-day area; then click on "history", and you will find a brief history of the ranch.

http://www.7dranch.com/

Monday, August 4, 2008

Sleeping Dog, Crouching Cougar

Well, not really crouching. Remember this shot taken by Mother at the ranch in Sunlight? This is one sleepy dog or else the cat is very quiet. Whatever, it is a good reminder that the mountains were full of critters of which to beware. (Take a look at Steve's grissly bear on his blog.) I like the detail in the well chinked cabin in the background.
I wonder how much of the summers working there was an "adventure". When it was our turn, Mother let Ann and me take our turns working at Pahaska and Yellowstone Park, respectively. She sure placed a lot of trust in us.