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More Tales of the Prairie: The Kar-Vu Drive In…An American Icon

September 9, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: drive in, Ike Burgers, Kar-Vue, pizza, Ross, Southeast Colorado, springfield

A drive-in theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a large parking area for automobiles. Within this enclosed area, customers can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their cars. -Wikipedia What a treat it has been watching a social […]
Letters From a Navy Boy – November 11, 1942

August 6, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: Charles Brooks, Letters, Military, Navy, Southeast Colorado, Vance Alfrey, Vilas

As I move many of my dad’s Navy letters to a digital format I will occasionally provide samples as shown below. I picked this one simply because it was from the set of letters from 1942 which I thought was lost. Also most of the language from the letter is original. I changed a couple items […]
A Bevy of Wandering Muleteers

July 21, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: Jack Ratliff, Multeer, Orville Ewing, Peter Voiss, Pritchett, San Francisco, Southeast Colorado

Some might say Orville Ewing was born 100 years too late. However, I have discovered while learning about his adventures he wasn’t alone. In various written accounts I have encountered references to muleteers traveling the countryside during Orville’s 30 plus years of traveling the highways and byways. What is a muleteer you ask? a muleteer […]
Orville Ewing’s Odyssey Begins

July 15, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: mule, Orville Ewing, oxen, Pritchett, San Francisco, Southeast Colorado

Orville Ewing called himself an “artist from the Old West”. He crisscrossed the United States in his covered wagon/trailer with his menagerie for about 30 years, selling literally thousands upon thousands of different postcards of himself over the years and described in my previous post “Orville Ewing’s Postcards” A sample is shown below: Orville’s own […]
Orville Ewing’s Postcards

March 26, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: baca county, Grandma Huckaby, Orville Ewing, postcards, Pritchett, Southeast Colorado, wagon

I don’t live in Baca County Colorado anymore, but it is the place where I grew up and still call home. It will always be home. This mini writing adventure began after I shared the picture below of my grandma holding what I now believe to be Orville Ewing’s wooden rifle in front of his […]
Mrs. Tune, The Sheriff and the Goats

March 5, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: Brooks, dust bowl, Goats, Huckaby, Sheriff, springfield, Texhoma, Vesta Tune

Vesta Tune lived in Springfield Colorado in the 1940′s and 50′s, Prior to that she lived in the Lycan Colorado area (north of the present day town of Walsh Colorado) near the Brooks side of my family. During a lecture on “Women of the Dust Bowl” presented by Dr. Sara Jane Richter of Panhandle State […]

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More Tales of the Prairie: The Kar-Vu Drive In…An American Icon

Letters From a Navy Boy – November 11, 1942

A Bevy of Wandering Muleteers

Orville Ewing’s Odyssey Begins

Orville Ewing’s Postcards

Mrs. Tune, The Sheriff and the Goats

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