Musings of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
(from the Paleotool vault) Here’s a great story I read years ago about being raised in a family of six in a sheep camp measuring about 7 x 8′! (I think that’s the floor space). I recently relocated the article in Mother Earth News. Here’s an excerpt: “The canvas-covered sheep wagon was roughly about seven […]
Read More Growing Up on the Range…(from the Paleotool vault) Sheep camps from Wyoming from the Wyoming Tales and Trails webpage. Great photos and some good information concerning everything “western.” A self-contained base camp in a sheep wagon provides a cozy home on the prairie. A beautiful culmination of cultures a innovations created this iconic American living arrangement. We can learn a […]
Read More Wyoming Sheepherders AgainHere are a few classic Sheep Camps from the Wyoming Tales and Trails webpage. There are some great photos and some good information on their web page. I personally took a lot of inspiration from these resourceful and low-cost housing solutions. There’s a lot of other information and photos of western history here too. Have a […]
Read More Sheepherders’ Camps“Victor Croley grew up with a sheepherder father, his family of six lived happily in a wagon like this, entertained by the outdoors and a fiddle.” Victor Croley describes growing up in a nomadic family of six with a sheepherder wagon for home and how years down the road he felt the urge to build […]
Read More A Story of Growing Up in a Sheep WagonPulled by oxen: It certainly leaves me wanting to know more… any info, anyone?
Read More Vardo in NormandyKent Griswold posted another fine link to sheepherder wagons. The community provides the few essentials not found in the wagon itself; shower, full kitchen, internet, etc. Watch the video here. Or see it on AOL’s website.
Read More Sheepherder Wagon CommunitySpotted a couple years ago in southern Arizona… Pretty basic but gets the job done.
Read More Sheep WagonDerek Diedricksen at Relaxshacks.com is always good for some inspirational offbeat home ideas. Here’s a shot of the interior of a sheep wagon with a promise of more to come. Click the photo for the original post.
Read More More from DeekMike is finishing up his remarkable vardo in the great white north. He included a mollycroft in the roof which not only looks cool but should add a lot of light and headroom. The front storage is accessible from the outside like a sheepherder and it will have an enormous bay window in the front. […]
Read More Mike’s Gypsy WagonHere’s a link to a short article about the Basques in Oregon from the Oregon Encyclopedia. I’m just in it for the wagon photos of course.
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