This is my son Jeremiah Johnson , a few years ago ! This is his first elk . He was 12 years old and on opening day in Hellroaring . We left camp at 430 am and tied up our horses on the park line right below Doc Shores . At daylight we started bugling […]
I found this in some old boxes I was going through . The early years of the C. Sharps Arms Co. this is their brochure . There office , factory was in Big Timber Montana . I was the first Outfitter to take clients for them and help sell their rifles etc.. Sitting l to […]
This is me skiing into Crevice and then down the Pine creek trail . The snow was deep and it was blizzarding . But we had to do it cause it was there! About a mile further is a bad snowslide and it had already slid once earlier in the year . Two things scare […]
As I was doing chores in Jardine I drove by ol Martins house . He died last month at 96 Years old . I knew him most of my life. Through last year he grew the very best garden you could hoe for, made wonderful sauer kraut . He was of German descent . He could […]
It’s that season again . Christmas has always been my most favorite holiday , for many reasons . Here we are a long time ago taking a Xmas eve ride . This has been a family tradition forever. The team is bay clydes Tom and Jerry . They were gentle but one was faster than […]
I sat with Scott Sallee the other day at the bucking horse sale and it brought up this memory of me and him on deckard flats . We were talking about bucking horses and riding them . There was a comment made to him about some hunters that I took hunting and they couldn’t believe […]
I was looking at some old pictures today and this is our old homestead from 1983. I had started to rebuild the corrals and hadn’t yet pulled all the sagebrush! The old log barn was leaning as no foundation just rocks. My haystack was pretty tiny. We lived in the cabin to the far right […]
Well let me introduce you to “Oink”! So many serious / sad things going on I’m going to tell a few funny tales! There was a guy in Gardiner named Jesse James, and he owned the Pit Stop cafe. He went to a pig sale and bought a pig not knowing it was 10 times […]
This is me, Joe, the wounded Warrior and Mick! This was Joes last day at our place yesterday! He had just finished telling me about his American flag that he carried all over the world ! In a submarine . Antarctic, in battle etc.. in a very emotional two sentences he said I can’t think […]
Joseph’s last supper! Thirty one years old and I’ve had him for twenty eight. . Today I got him up twice and I knew what needed done . I lost my nerve twice , I’ll be honest ! I usually let nature take its course but I buried my old friend. He came from the […]