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Orville Ewing’s Travels: The Animals

November 23, 2014

Old West, Stories

Tags: animals, Goats, mules, Orville Ewing, Pritchett, wagon rooster

Before we head into Orville’s travels during the 1940’s let’s take a peek at the the animal menagerie which served as Orville’s traveling companions over the years. This is the group that provided quite a background for those wishing to take pictures with him. The ox, burros, donkeys and/or mules were obviously used to pull […]
Orville Ewing’s Travels: The 1930’s

November 20, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: baca county, Greencastle, Orville Ewing, Ox Cart, Pritchett, San Francisco, Sheriff, springfield, Worlds Fair

I mentioned in a previous post the large number of Orville Ewing postcards available for sale online, but there are also over 300 newspaper references to his 30 plus years of travel. UPDATE: April 2020. This past week I received another scan of the picture above. Since we already have it the picture isn’t that big […]
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 […]

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Orville Ewing’s Travels: The Animals

Orville Ewing’s Travels: The 1930’s

A Bevy of Wandering Muleteers

Orville Ewing’s Odyssey Begins

Orville Ewing’s Postcards