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Index of
Past Weeks' Photos
See the current Photo of
the Week postings on Page 1 here.
Click the dates below for
the photos and their stories.
Photos for July 21-28, 2008
Utah poet and rancher Paul Kern shared photos,
a poem, and more about the late Utah rancher Joe Mascaro.
Writer and cowboy poet Smoke Wade shares
photos and recollections that center around log troughs.
Photos for June 23-July 13, 2008
Poet and rancher Diane Tribitt shares recent photos from her ranch.
California poet and writer
Susan Parker shares pictures of Bodie, California.
Journalist and photographer
Jeri Dobrowski shares a vintage Fourth of July photo:
Arizona photographer Lori Faith Merritt
shares photos of mustangs.
Photos for June 23, 2008
Wyoming writer and poet Jean Mathisen
Haugen shared
family photos, stories, and some Western history...
Photos for May
27-June 16, 2008
Alberta's Bryan Smith—poet, retired Mountie, packer, horse trainer, ski
patroller and back country guide—shared photos from his part of the
West...
Award winning poet, radio host, and humorist
Andy Nelson
of Pinedale,
Wyoming, sent a photo representing three generations of farriers...
Oklahoma poet
Janice Chapman shared a photo of her horses...
Oregon poet
Byrl Keith Chadwell shares photos
from a pack trip into the Snake River Breaks country of Eastern
Oregon...
Special photos for May
22-26, 2008
A Memorial Day tribute all who
have given their lives in military service, with photos in memory of
Corporal Josiah Hollopeter...
Photos for May 19, 2008
Wyoming rancher and photographer Nicky Groenewold shared photos
and a grim commentary about coyotes, cows, and ranching...
Photos for April
28-May 12, 2008
Wyoming rancher and photographer Nicky Groenewold shared photos
and some history of a Weston County sandstone dugout...
Poet, songwriter, and cowboy Mike Moutoux
shares photos of the New Mexico range where he works...
Oklahoma rancher, poet, and reciter Jay Snider
shared photos and more about his grandfather, Marvin Turner (1905-1976), who
was a brand inspector for the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association...
Photos for April
14-21, 2008
Journalist and photographer Jeri Dobrowski shares photos
and stories
from the early 1900s in Coalwood, Montana, where her great grandfather
John W. Janssen was postmaster and proprietor of the general store...
Texas poet and writer Linda Kirkpatrick shares
a story and
photos of vintage dolls from a ranch girl's life...
Photos for March 31-April
7, 2008
The inimitable California poet and artist Pat Richardson shared photos
from the late 1800s, and a related photo from 1951...
Wyoming photographer Chanda Snook shared a moving photo from
the March, 2008 funeral of South Dakota rancher Jack Loughlin...
Photos for February
25-March 24,
2008
Texas poet Doc
Wood shared contemporary photos from the Copper Breaks State Park in
northwest Texas ...
South Dakota rancher, poet and writer
Robert Dennis shared family photos,
one from about 1924 and one from the 1940s...
Wyoming singer and songwriter Laurie
Wood shared photos, including those of her daughter, poet and
musician Cora Wood working cattle...
Poet and writer Jean Mathisen
Haugen of Lander, Wyoming, shared
photos of Western artist and "flintnapper" Tom Lucas from Lander.
..
Matt Whitt shared impressive views from in and around Thermopolis,
Wyoming...
Photos for February
18,
2008
Nevada poet, writer, and gathering organizer
Smoke Wade shared photos "depicting
the 1952 branding of the Hashknife calves at the Cactus Flat branding
corral, which sets on a flat along the Grande Ronde River in Washington.
..
Photos for January 28 -February
11,
2008
Montana singer, songwriter, musician,
storyteller, writer, auctioneer, Model T authority, and fiddle expert
Stan Howe shared a unique 1912 eastern Montana homestead photo...
Poet and writer Jean Mathisen Haugen of Lander, Wyoming, tells about grandfather...
Photographer and journalist
Jeri Dobrowski
shared photos about her grandfather and "all the
things he ever rode..."
Photos for December 31,
2007 -January 21,
2008
Wyoming rancher, writer, poet, and horsewoman Terry Henderson shares
photos (courtesy of John Hewlett) about teaching her horse to lie down on
cue...
Janice Chapman tells about her piece of Oklahoma...
Nevada poet, writer, and gathering organizer
Smoke Wade shared vintage and contemporary
photos, history, and recollections of the of the
one-room school in Joseph Creek, Washington, which he and generations of
his family attended...
South Dakota poet and rancher
Ken Cook sent a photo
of " tail end of 2007," taken
as he and his sons headed home with the last of the cows...
Photos for December 3-24,
2007
Jim Nelson, Wyoming rancher and co-host
of Clear Out West (C. O. W.) radio with his brother, poet
and humorist Andy Nelson, shared photos and
the story of the live Nativity enacted each year at their Flying U
ranch...
Bruce Matley ("Nevada Slim," half of the
popular singing duo Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue) shared the history of his
family's Nevada ranch and more ...
Wyoming writer and poet
Jean Mathisen
Haugen shared the story of a tree planted by her family 117
years ago...
Poet, musician, saddle maker and rancher
Robert Dennis shared photos and stories about
his ranch and the town of Red Owl...
Photos for November 5-26,
2007
Award winning poet, radio host, and humorist
Andy Nelson
of Pinedale,
Wyoming, sent photos of his family's next generation of farriers (and
Mike)...
In observance of
Veterans Day,
journalist and photographer Jeri Dobrowski shared family photos of
generations of veterans and some additional World War I photos...
Utah poet Paul Kern shared poems in honor of
his father, Reese Kern...
Retired pastor Billy H. Burris of Springfield,
Missouri, shared a photo taken in Montana...
Photos for October 1-29,
2007
Nevada poet, writer, and gathering organizer Smoke
Wade shared these photos of Rachel, Nevada, in the spirit of Halloween
...
Hugh McLennan,
British Columbia cattle rancher, horse trainer, singer, storyteller,
and host of the
award-winning Spirit
of the West weekly syndicated radio program, shared photos of
his buckskin mare, "Lucky the Wonder Horse"...
British Columbia poet, gathering
organizer, and cowboy Mike Puhallo shared a photo taken in about 1936
of the Alkali Lake Hockey Team in about 1936...
Minnesota poet and rancher Diane
Tribitt shared a pasture photo taken in May, 2007 that includes a Sandhill
Crane, a fawn, and a squirrel...
Popular California poet
Pat Richardson shared family rodeo
photos...
Photos for
September 17-24, 2007
Poet, writer, reporter, and gathering organizer Smoke Wade, who divides his
time between Idaho and Nevada, shared photos from Bodie, a California gold
mining ghost town, which once had a population of 10,000...
Journalist and photographer Jeri Dobrowski shared family Yellowstone
photos from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s...
Photos for
September 10, 2007
Oklahoma rancher, poet, and reciter Jay Snider shared photos
of three generations of rodeoing Sniders and four generations of Sniders
horseback...
Photos for
August 20-September 3, 2007
California poet and reciter Susan Parker
shared photos from Montana and Wyoming ....
Colen Sweeten, Jr.'s family shared family
photos, and many others posted here, in a page accompanying
tributes to Colen Sweeten, Jr.,
who died August 15, 2007...
Oklahoma rancher, poet, and reciter Jay Snider shared photos from his
Rafter S Ranch Cowboy Reunion...
Photos for
July 30-August 13, 2007
South Dakota poet Yvonne Hollenbeck shared early
photos of acclaimed writers
Billie Snyder Thornburg, her sister Nellie Snyder Yost, and their
family's ranch...
Singer and songwriter Juni Fisher shared
photos of her great grandfather from 1888 and 1914, and her of her
grandmother Florence Marie Overstreet, from 1916. Her grandfather,
born in 1866 in Kirkville, Missouri, set out at age 14, wanting to be a
cowboy...
Texas poet and writer Linda Kirkpatrick shared
photos and a story about the wild hogs of Frio Canyon in Texas Hill
Country...
Photos for
June 25-July 23, 2007
Montana poet and writer Sandy Seaton shared contemporary photos of the
country where she lives and works...
Texas poet and writer Linda Kirkpatrick shared sheep and goat ranching
photos from the 1950s and later...
Utah poet Sam Jackson shared sheepwagon
photos from Utah's West Desert in the 1930s...
Journalist and photographer Jeri Dobrowski shared contemporary photos
for the Fourth of July ...
Fifth-generation rancher Deanna Dickinson McCall shared photos from the
early 1900s...
Photos for
June 4 — June 18, 2007
Texas poet and writer
Linda Kirkpatrick shared 1930s photos from her Texas hometown's history...
Rancher and poet Paul Kern shared contemporary photos of his father in
celebration of Father's Day...
Nevada poet Hal Swift shared a 1940s photo from his service days in
Arizona...
Photos for
May 14 — May 28, 2007
Minnesota rancher Diane Tribitt shared this photo
from a Little Britches rodeo...
California poet, writer and horsewoman LaVonne Houlton sent family pictures
from the early 1900s...
South Dakota rancher, writer, and poet
Robert Dennis shared photos from the early 1900s...
Photos for
April 23—May 7, 2007
California cowboy poetry reciter Tony Argento sent this photo
of his grandfather in the Salinas Rodeo, about 1919...
South Dakota poet and rancher
Ken Cook sent these photos—by
Sabina Frutiger of Rapid City—of
branding in April, 2007...
Award winning poet, radio host, and humorist
Andy Nelson sent this contemporary photo from his brother Jim
Nelson's ranch in Cora, Wyoming...
Photos for
March 26—April
16, 2007
Jeri Dobrowski shared the following information and
1940s-era photos about McNierney Livestock...
Yvonne Hollenbeck shared this
tintype of her great grandfather, Ben Arnold...
California poet Janice Gilbertson shared this photo from June, 1955....
California poet Pat Richardson shared this circa 1900 photo of his great, great maternal grandmother,
Celesta Ann Twitchell Hickok (1849-1933), probably taken about 1900...
Photos for
March 12—March19,
2007
Rancher and poet Paul Kern shared this 1924 photo of his grandfather, Alfred
Kern...
Montana singer, songwriter, musician, storyteller, writer,
auctioneer, Model T authority, and fiddle expert Stan Howe is pictured
in this 1949 photo along with "Betsy," in a photo taken at the
family Ranch in Westmore, Montana...
Photos for
February 12—March
5, 2007
Jane Morton shared this photo taken at her family's ranch in
Colorado in the 1970s or 1980s...
Poet, writer, reporter, and gathering organizer Smoke Wade
shared this circa 1915 photo of his grandfather, J. H. "Jidge"
Tippett, taken at the Tippett home ranch on Joseph Creek in Asotin Country,
Washington...
Award winning poet, radio host, and humorist
Andy Nelson sent this photo from where he lives, in Pinedale, Wyoming,
taken on a summer evening in 2005...
Singer and songwriter Patty Clayton, who lives in Hawaii and
in Colorado, sent this photo of her great grandparents...
Photos for
December 18, 2006—February
5, 2007
South Dakota rancher and poet Ken Cook often writes about his family, and he's
particularly fortunate to often visit with his "Grandpa Buckles," (Frank E.
Buckles)...
Texas poet
and writer
Linda Kirkpatrick shared this family photo, taken in about 1904...
Mike Puhallo, British Columbia rancher, poet, gathering
organizer and President of the British
Columbia Cowboy Heritage Society sent this 1926 vintage photo...
Idaho writer, poet, musician, and talespinner Charlie Camden
sent this 2006 view from Idaho...
In 2005, Yvonne Hollenbeck wrote, "On November 28, 2005 the Dakotas and
surrounding areas were hit with a blizzard, which South Dakota Governor
Mike Rounds called "the worst storm to hit eastern and central
South Dakota in nearly a decade." ...
The inimitable Pat Richardson shared this photo of his
parents, taken in Lockford, California, in the 1930s...
Diane Tribitt shared this photo taken on her Minnesota ranch
in 2006...
Jane Morton shared this photo taken on the family ranch in
Colorado in the 1920s...
Photos for
October 23, 2006—December
11, 2006
Andy Nelson shared this early 1950s photo...
Linda Kirkpatrick shared this 1930s-era photo...
Jeri Dobrowski shared this 1907 photo...
Al Mehl's
poem, "The Great Depresson," led us to ask him if he
had a photo to accompany it...
Fifth-generation rancher,
poet, and writer Deanna Dickinson McCall shared this circa 1912 photo of
her grandfather...
South Dakota rancher,
poet, and writer Robert Dennis shared this circa 1923 photo of his
father and uncles...
California poet and
horsewoman Janice Gilbertson shared this circa 1917
photo of her grandmother, taken in West Texas...
South Dakota rancher and
poet Ken Cook shared this 1935 photo of his Grandmother Buckles and
some of her children...
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In observance of
Veterans Day,
journalist and photographer Jeri Dobrowski shared family photos of
generations of veterans and some additional World War I photos...
Utah poet Paul Kern shared poems in honor of
his father, Reese Kern...
Retired pastor Billy H. Burris of Springfield,
Missouri, shared a photo taken in Montana...
Award winning poet, radio host, and humorist
Andy Nelson sent this contemporary photo from his brother Jim
Nelson's ranch in Cora, Wyoming... 
