What a GREAT name for a book. As we continue reading Ruth McLaughlin's book during Montana History at the Marias Heritage Center, the title is starting to resonate more and more with me. Ruth grew up in Eastern Montana and in my opinion, both her parents and her grandparents, along with many of the homesteaders, had one tough miserable life
A little cold weather certainly doesn't dampen our enthusiasm when comes to getting out and enjoying our weekends here in the Last Best Place. And talk about a good antidote for the chilly weather...Quality Life Concepts in Conrad is putting on a chili dinner this evening (Friday) at the Conrad Moose Lodge
It looks like the 2011 harvest season has wrapped up. My friend "Gunsmoke" Gary Gollehon tells me that his friend, Todd-The-Custom-Cutter Man, is anticipating driving down to Texas, Oklahoma (a good name for a musical), and Kansas to take a look-see at conditions down in those parts. Winter wheat seeding in the south is fast and furious as there have been some reports of moisture in those states but, unfortunately, no sub-moisture on which to rely.
I've always been curious about those "Wal-Mart Greeters". I mean, who are they, where do they come from, did they used to work, why would ANYONE in their right mind want to stand at the front doors and greet the "Walmartians" as they enter the store. Believe me, I've seen my share of "Walmartians" on e-mail "forwards" and it's looks like a pretty strange neighborhood to me. Last evening, I was reading Montana History at the Heritage Center here in Shelby.
It's amazing, is it not! The last day of August and the weather has taken a turn for fall. Cooler temperatures and all that and you can almost smell the change in the air. That said, there's still some summer activities/events/fun things to do as September comes rolling in
That's what the Green Acres song says and I've been in touch with my friend, Gary Gollohon east of Brady. Gary lives on Hells Gulch Road and I've been suggesting for years that they change the name to "Gollohon Drive
Probably with the recent rain, we are hearing more talk about the spring crops than ever. Although I don't have a big background in agriculture, I talk to my friend Gary Gollohon fairly regular and try to keep abreast of what's going on in the field.
Probably here in the Golden Triangle, we pay rapt attention to agriculture because it is our lifeline, and really. our country's lifeline. Agriculture is what the Golden Triangle is all about. Brady area farmer Gary Gollehon reports that Kansas and Oklahoma recently received anywhere from an inch or two of rain
Since we are first generation on our ranch, our story will be a little different than most you have read. Our story begins south of Malta. Dave had graduated from Colorado State University and was working for a rancher 60 miles south of Malta
Dell T Hales first came out to Toole County in the spring of 1910. She was teaching near Ipswitch, South Dakota and 21 years old. She’d grown up near Mt. Sterling, in southeast Iowa, on a farm called Clover Home, where her father raised grain and hay and fed cattle for a company out of Chicago. Her father had taken the family west to South Dakota in hopes of getting enough land to make farmers of his three sons. One of those sons, Miller, went on west to look for land in Montana. He found a couple of adjacent half-sections in Toole County. You could homestead half a section in those days, and he figured that if he could get Dell to grab the adjacent half-section, he could eventually buy it from her, and maybe have enough land to actually make a living on. Her motivation was to be to get money to finish college.
Submitted by Herb Karst
A Journey to a New World, A testament to my Grandfather’s courage
The story of the Karst family farm really begins in the spring of 1903 in the small town of Bruckenthal, Austria . It was then that Adam Karst bid his parents and siblings goodbye and started out his voyage to a land far away from the wars and poverty of Eastern Europe.
Starting on Monday March 7th we will be featuring a different Agriculture family every day Monday through Friday this month on our website www.kesnam.com! You will find interesting stories and pictures of how our producers started out, how they got to where they are today, and how they acquired their land.