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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 753091" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>If you are interested in learning about our Canadian Ranch, Empire Valley, then google Churn Creek Grasslands and read about our winter pasture and see a few good pictures. Across the creek to the North lies the mighty Gang Ranch and to the south the rest of Empire Valley.</p><p></p><p>Our ranch had no exterior or boundary fences. The fences were all natural barriers like unscalable Churn Creek. That creek separated us from the Gang Ranch for seventy-six miles which was the length of both of our ranges. You could ride from one end of it to the other in a day if you started before daylight , changed horses at noon and ended about dark. I know this because our older son rode this trip in one day at the age of fourteen. He had started going to the mountains with the cowboy indians at the age of twelve, much to his mothers chagrin. He is without a doubt the most natural and gifted horseman and cowman I have ever known since he never knew anything else. All of our present neighbors rely on his rope and cattle abilities. He is a keen appraiser of the condition of our range cows and tells me " they are happy or P'oed." There were no roads anywhere near this route so when you left the barn you saddled up in the spring and returned in the fall. In fact when I took food and hay to the crews at the cow camps I drove 265 miles to get there. I had to go out to the major highway and then around through Lilloett and along Bridge Lake to get to the Relay Creek cow camp. My family and I lived many summers at that camp with the indian cowboys and a bunch of horses and dogs. We were usually there from July one through September one. This range was called Tyaughton or in Shuswap good little things from the ground. The legend was that early winter snows trapped a group of indians in that valley and they survuved on rock chucks hence they came from the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 753091, member: 14119"] If you are interested in learning about our Canadian Ranch, Empire Valley, then google Churn Creek Grasslands and read about our winter pasture and see a few good pictures. Across the creek to the North lies the mighty Gang Ranch and to the south the rest of Empire Valley. Our ranch had no exterior or boundary fences. The fences were all natural barriers like unscalable Churn Creek. That creek separated us from the Gang Ranch for seventy-six miles which was the length of both of our ranges. You could ride from one end of it to the other in a day if you started before daylight , changed horses at noon and ended about dark. I know this because our older son rode this trip in one day at the age of fourteen. He had started going to the mountains with the cowboy indians at the age of twelve, much to his mothers chagrin. He is without a doubt the most natural and gifted horseman and cowman I have ever known since he never knew anything else. All of our present neighbors rely on his rope and cattle abilities. He is a keen appraiser of the condition of our range cows and tells me " they are happy or P'oed." There were no roads anywhere near this route so when you left the barn you saddled up in the spring and returned in the fall. In fact when I took food and hay to the crews at the cow camps I drove 265 miles to get there. I had to go out to the major highway and then around through Lilloett and along Bridge Lake to get to the Relay Creek cow camp. My family and I lived many summers at that camp with the indian cowboys and a bunch of horses and dogs. We were usually there from July one through September one. This range was called Tyaughton or in Shuswap good little things from the ground. The legend was that early winter snows trapped a group of indians in that valley and they survuved on rock chucks hence they came from the ground. [/QUOTE]
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