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TRAVIS NYE, ROPING CHAMPION
Comments on the October 8, 2017 Camp IOU newsletter.

“The roping was the Wrangler National Team Roping Finals. I have roped at the finals two other times, but have never had any luck. This is the largest payout I have received for an event. The horse I rode is a 9 year old mare that I bought about 2 months ago. She does everything right so it makes my part easy. Team roping is a sport that allows you to get away from the grind of the work week or day. You have to be focused and in the moment, much like golf. It’s also one of the few hobbies that will actually pay for itself if your lucky.” – Travis Nye

FROM ACROSS THE POND
Re: Afternoon Tea at the Jersey Lilly 2016
Very many thanks for sharing this review – together with photos – of an astounding tea party. I was deeply impressed with the staging of the event and the trouble to which the ladies had gone to make it so special.

In Victorian and Edwardian times, the milliners of London created the most fabulous hats for ladies. Actresses led the fashions and not just the wealthy appearing in the Royal Enclosure at the Ascot Races.

I noted the beautiful tea services being used and the decorum of the event. Most impressive coming from our cousins over the pond!!!! At least some people appreciate the living standards and life style of a bygone age.

Please let the sentiments and admiration of a Brit be known to those who organised and attended this splendid function.
Warm regards as always.
Keith Shipman
Saarlouis – Nalbach
Germany
[Ed.: Read the full story about the afternoon tea here]

MUSINGS FROM THE PRAIRIE
“My great uncle was Vern Thomason from Jordan area; since he also raised sheep we assume he may have taken the wool to Ingomar for shipping. We had some contact with him long ago, before he died; and we were able to go out to the old ranch with permission from the current owner (about forty years ago now). He told a story to my youngest brother, about a man who murdered someone in the area; and the law was going to be some days away at that time…Read more

LINDA LOU: Although Owen Badgett does not do email we got Peggy’s story to him by phone. And we will ask around for more information about the sheepherders that frequented Ingomar, and share with readers. Thanks Peggy!

“I knew Owen years ago when I lived in Miles City. I still have a poetry book that he autographed for me. Its in a box but I still have it! Owen used to come down to the Hole In The Wall where a bunch of us girls worked and he would come down and say hey and hang out for a bit.:) I hope he had a good turn-out at the Museum last night.” – Stephani S-C.

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COWBOY TALES 2018 at the Jersey Lilly

Cowboy Tales 2018 at the Jersey Lilly

Saturday October 27th, the Jersey Lilly in Ingomar, MT, presents “Cowboy Tales”. 

It’s a western music and cowboy yarn-spinning event, with great grub, great talent and good old-fashioned western entertainment. This year’s event features an extraordinary talent, singer-songwriter Almeda Bradshaw. Among many honors, Bradshaw was recently recognized by the Academy of Western Artists with a nomination for the 2018 Western Music Female Entertainer, and was the 2016 Cowboy Idol Winner – at the Columbia River Cowboy Gathering, Kennewick, WA. Bradshaw is a consummate western entertainer. Her music is spell binding and her stories deliver you directly to the old west. Read the full story here.

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Well CHUTE….
The Ingomar Open Rodeo 2018 Gets It Done!

Grand Entry, Opening Ceremony, 2018 Ingomar Open Rodeo.
Morris Ware drove his team of Halflingers in a
freight wagon built by Owen Badgett. PHOTO: Hart Broesel.
Folks came to the 2018 Ingomar Open Rodeo to see a show, and they sure saw one. They came for great grub and they got it. And they came for a grand day of family fun and getting together, and that’s how it went. People from as far away as Minnesota were there to enjoy the show. There were a few calf escapees that spiced things up just before the rodeo began. After all the broncs and the bulls were bucked, the ropers had thrown their loops, and the Buckaroo Bouncers had bounded across the arena to a cheering crowd, folks hung around to enjoy each other’s company, eat some barbecue and listen and dance to cowboy music under the stars. Read the full story and view photos of the Open Rodeo here.

 

 
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