Thanks for sharing this, I'll definitely be watching.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
I'd also put Herman Linder into the mix of those who helped shape Alberta...in the form of rodeo and the Stampede. I grew up going to church with him, and worked on his ranch, painting fences, herding calves in for branding, pitching bales....I had no idea that he was a 'celebrity', he was just an old rancher who would play crib with me and win back everything I worked hard all day for!
But years later, I saw pictures of him with the Queen and Philip, riding in a carriage from Don Remington's collection (I also knew him growing up, I put tires on his car in my dad's shop)....and later realized what a contribution he had made to Rodeo and to Alberta. Unsung Hero in my books!
Thanks for sharing. Southern Alberta has a really colorful past. There were quite a few trailblazers of the good sort and of the bad sort. Even 'liver-eating' Johnson was in what is now Alberta for a spell at the whiskey forts in the south.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
Southern Alberta History
John Ware (1845-1905)
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