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Show John W. Ramey Page 2. and cut out a particular animal without any difficulty, once he knew which cow or calf was wanted for branding. "I often think of the days on the range, hungry and thirsty, riding hard all day, thenoo.ting a bite and rolling on the ground in the saddleblankets at night. I am reminded of the experiences every time I hear songs about the Last Roundup. "Once 1 was out alone and saw what I thought were a party of Indians riding towards me full gallpp. I had a bit 45 caliber six shooter strppped to my side so I rode as fast as I could straight for the horsemen, thinking I might bluff them into believing there were more cowboys near by. When I got nearer I saw I had been fomled by a mtrage. "My father got restless again and ih the summer of 1875 bought two yoke of oxen and hitched them to a covered wagon and we WElre on our way again, across the plains on July l. "We came through Denver and then up to the Black Hills. There we struck the old emigrant trail west and followed it acnoss Wyoming. We came by way of Green River, Rock Springs, and Evanston, Weber Canyon, through Ogden and west to Elko, nevada. We were in Ogden about the middle of August, and reached Elko September 20, 1875. Q... "Father left us there and went to the Pavific coast, from there he took a ship to Hawaii and went to work in a factory in Honolulu where he died in 1885. "Mother and I stayed in Elko for six years, enduring some very hard times. I used to milk cows on a dairy farm and go to school and was printer's apprentice besiaes. I leanned the printer's trade there under Major E. A. Littlefield, who was the f at her of Jack Littlefield of Ogden. For a time the state of Nevada maintained a university at Elko before moving i t to Reno and attended classes there. "Elko used to be a pretty wild town with cowboysj Indians, trappers, hunters, construction crews and freighters gathering t here. I t used to be the freight distributing point for Tuscarora, Cornucopia and Eureka and big wagons with six |
