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Show • 23- DL: We went clear to the river, x^ here the Colorado runs together like that. GT: With the San Juan? DL: We didn't know that rivers come to life again but we knextf we could have been drox^ n when that river come to . . . FO: Did you drive the sheep doxvn the river bottom. DL: Um hum. FO: That's the only xvTay you can get there, isn't it? DL: Um hum. FO: A thunderstorm would have been pretty bad. DL: Um hum. FO: How many sheep did you have? DL: Oh, we had, oh, about 800. FO: About 800. DL: Eight hundred or over. FO: Did you and your family own eight hundred? DL: Yah, we all owned them. GT: Did the government come a few years after that and tell you you had to get rid of part of the sheep? DL: Yah, that x^ as what they call him, it was John Collier. Everyone knows John Collier. He took the horses and the sheep, everything, GT: Cattle? DL: Um hum. GT: Did you have any goats when you x-? ere over there? DL: Huh? GT: Did you have goats too? |