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Waterfall Currents Raging

Boat Upstream vs Downstream by Stephen Bly with Podcast

DRAGGING YOUR BOAT UPSTREAM Before the invention of steam engines, the only way to bring large amounts of goods upstream in the Old West was to use a keel boat. Size often averaged about 60’x15’ and had a three-foot depth of hull. With one steerer and another operating the sweep, you could travel downstream. But […]

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Quality Cowboy Hat, Boots, Spurs

Quality Built Cowboy Brands with Stephen Bly Audio Podcast

Built With Cowboy Quality Name recognition products didn’t just happen in our present age. Long before radio and television, even among the cowboys and ranchers of the Old West, certain brand names meant quality built. Quality Western Hats and Boots John B. Stetson made hats. He fashioned wide-brimmed, high crowned, beaver felt hats like no […]

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Stray Sheep

Stray Sheep & Cabin Fever by Stephen Bly with Audio Podcast

STRAY SHEEP NEED A FLOCK Enrique Borba spent most of his life running flocks of sheep and plenty of stray sheep too in the mountains around Winnemucca, Nevada. He lived a lonely life, to say the least. The rolling, treeless mountains and sage scattered valleys might make a good place for sheep, stray or otherwise. […]

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