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Wyoming Sheepherders
Today, it’s sheep camps from Wyoming from the Wyoming Tales and Trails webpage. Great photos and some good information about Western history.
Note the important things; wood stove, wash pan hanging on the door, the big tub sitting outside, and a fiddle for company. I could spend a good chunk of my life like this!
Another sheep camp, dog included.
This camp is downright crowded with two wagons.
Although the site is a bit difficult to navigate, there is a lot of information about western history to be found there. Have a look around.
A Story of an Old Time Sheepherder
It was a lonely life on the range. “Even if a herder does not particularly care for reading, he will be driven to it in self-defense.” I wanted to re-share a good story about sheepherding life. Gilfillan was a shepherd for 20 years and went on to become a well-known humorist, author, and speaker.
“Archie Gilfillan was South Dakota’s sagebrush philosopher. His prairie wit entertained people in the ranching areas of Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and South Dakota through the Great Depression.”
As to why he never married,
“You profess sincere and unbounded admiration for the beauties of the opposite sex and you practically lay your heart at their collective feet; and then you meet some individual who combines the poorer qualities of a mama wildcat and a bitch wolf, with a voice like a buzz saw, the temper of a slapped hornet, and a disposition that would curdle the milk in four adjoining counties. And then you have to revise your opinion of the sex all over again –– and downward.” In short, he never met a woman he liked who would have him as a husband.
The full article can be found here in South Dakota magazine.
A Sheepherder in South Dakota Magazine…
(from the Paleotool vault)
A lonely life on the range. “Even if a herder does not particularly care for reading, he will be driven to it in self-defense”. This is a good story about sheepherding life. Gilfillan was a shepherd for 20 years and went on to become a humorist, author, and speaker.
“Archie Gilfillan was South Dakota’s sagebrush philosopher. His prairie wit entertained people in the ranching areas of Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and South Dakota through the Great Depression.” The full article can be found here.
Wyoming Sheepherders Again
(from the Paleotool vault)
Sheep camps from Wyoming from the Wyoming Tales and Trails webpage. Great photos and some good information concerning everything “western.”
I could spend much of my life like this!
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 lot from these designs today.
The Wyoming Tails and Trails website contains a lot of other information about western history along with more than 100 photos. Have a look around and get a feel for the old west.
http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/
Sheepherders’ Camps
Here 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.
Fiddling on the prairie. I could spend much of my life like this!
Out on the range. Looking at my Vardo, you can see my inspiration for the offset door and stove.
Again, the offset door. I get asked about this a lot. It gives a large amount of room on one side.
There’s a lot of other information and photos of western history here too. Have a look around.
