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Re: Some good stuff here
Some good stuff indeed Bill, a lot of those photos I've never seen before.
By the way, is that a young Terry Mubach on top of that over loaded stagecoach?
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By the way, is that a young Terry Mubach on top of that over loaded stagecoach?
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GK: Ironically the link was sent me by my pal in Alconbury over your way.
Here's more American the Beautiful:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... 1943/2363/
Here's more American the Beautiful:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... 1943/2363/
Re: Some good stuff here
thanks, great photos and some talented photographers, too
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My ancestors really did "miss the boat" when the Mayflower sailed.....bulldog1935 wrote:thanks, great photos and some talented photographers, too
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Alconbury, there's a RAF base there.
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Re: Some good stuff here
I wonder what the oxen population is today? I am 63 years old and I have never seen a live oxen, plenty of horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs and other domesticated animals shown in old west photographs but never an oxen. They used to be quite prevalent as shown in old pictures but today ?. Heck I have even had my picture taken with a live bull buffalo that weighed over 2,000 lbs.
Re: Some good stuff here
My biological father was in the Army. I turned 6 years old old on the boat going over there.
I turned 10 years old on the boat going back to the US.
We did not live on base, we lived in a SMALL german town.
I had the opportunity ( with the german farmers supervising ) to drive several teams of oxen.
The oxen were so well trained, that even a dufus like me could do it.
I turned 10 years old on the boat going back to the US.
We did not live on base, we lived in a SMALL german town.
I had the opportunity ( with the german farmers supervising ) to drive several teams of oxen.
The oxen were so well trained, that even a dufus like me could do it.
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Re: Some good stuff here
Oxen are not a species they are bovine, they are a castrated male bovine of any breed , for example blue ox was a castrated Brahman, most oxen were longhornes or in the south we call them woods cattle, you can go to pinney woods cattle an see this breed. I hope I explained this correct. You may have known that already, but a few folks still use them kinda a novelty thing, at olde time days and such. Some will say that a castrated bull yearling is a steer and this is true but when kept and trained to work he is an ox, and if you have more than one then you have oxen.Gaucho Gringo wrote:I wonder what the oxen population is today? I am 63 years old and I have never seen a live oxen, plenty of horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs and other domesticated animals shown in old west photographs but never an oxen. They used to be quite prevalent as shown in old pictures but today ?. Heck I have even had my picture taken with a live bull buffalo that weighed over 2,000 lbs.
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Re: Some good stuff here
Thanks for the links, good pics