Day 9 Cowboy Pictures by Stewart

This was a rig of my dad's. He used pickups with sideboards until 1964 or 65. I think that's Larry Preuit airing the tire up. Larry day worked for my dad, and later on I day worked for Larry's dad Top. The air hose coming from the motor area is a mystery to me. Maybe Dad had some kind of a compressor rigged up on the motor? This pic tells the story of ranch life prior to radial ties. Flat tires were a daily chore, just like feeding the horses and milking the cow. I sometimes cuss modern technology, but I'll never say anything but good about the advent of steel belted tires. They were a game changer for the ranching profession. I can also draw a picture in my imagination of Roy Lee Criswell and I being of age back in this era. If we could have had a rig like this and a horse named Old Fooler, we would have been just as cool as Glen Ford and Henry Fonda in The Rounders. Hell, we might have even been cooler lol

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Larry Littlefield Everybody is missing the hard part, training the horses to jump up in the pickup. Ole Jay Carol had a horse that really didn't like it, but you know JC, he always won!

I also rode Preacher and Doubtful and loaded them in that pickup.

Stewart Williamson Larry, a jillion comments on this. You were the only on who was actually there lol

Larry Littlefield yes I was working there summers 61-thru 67 and 71. Larry Preuit was there off and on, summers the 5 years before me, I think.

Larry Littlefield We really slowed down using the pickup after I built the red 4-horse trailer.

Stewart Williamson Larry, so you remember what year you built the trailer?

Larry Littlefield no, I think I built the double deck chute one year and the trailer the next. The plans/directions came from the Dora Ag teacher, who was having the class make them each year (I think).so I would guess 64 or 65.

Larry Littlefield maybe the other way around. I don't think much of the corral was finished when the trailer was, cause I remember using it to get stuff from Lubbock. I do think the swimming pool was first big project though.