They were sodbusters, carpenters, mechanics, horsebrokers, outlaws, lawmen, some of the first corn-growers in Iowa, wheat-growers in Montana, and 'Okies' driven out of the Depression-era dustbowl. There are not many Old West roles that some of them didn't play. My ancestors lived, worked, settled, unsettled, and died on the Old West frontier, on both sides of my family and both sides of the law.
