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Show challenge in the elements, and the uncertainties in the political manipulations that effect the lamb and wool markets most of the time. John K came into his life of hard work naturally. He was the result of turbulent forces that had formed the background from which his life evolved and developed. And because his years were pioneering in nature and very closely bound to his mother's life and effort, he was more fully identified with her than with his father. Yet the old world roots of his parents were important and somewhat interwoven and have been helpful in understanding John K's life. In recording this history of a native son and pioneer of Sanpete County, Utah, and of his part in the improvement program of the sheep industry (principally the Rambouillet breed) a partial answer will have been made to a challenge that Utah history be recorded. It has become more important to me in view of my concern with the vanishing sheep population in the United States. At least it has dwindled alarmingly. Very few people visiting Sanpete County today would be aware that for many years, it held the enviable reputation of being the Rambouillet sheep breeding center of the country, if not the world. And I am impelled to write what I know about John K's participation in the fine establishment of that record. It is important to let younger and future generations know something of how a sheepman's life was lived in the early |
