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ColoradoOak
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Good read! Well I didn't read the whole thing yet of course, but Peeler sure is an interesting character and has a lot of fame around here in Texas still.
Make sure you read Chapter V
http://www.ctlr.org/Resources/Legacy/#V
HOOK 'EM!
Make sure you read Chapter V
http://www.ctlr.org/Resources/Legacy/#V
HOOK 'EM!
txhunter58
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LAST EDITED ON Sep-19-11 AT 07:09PM (MST)[p]I met him when I was a kid. My Dad was his veterinarian. Got to look at his trophy room a couple of times: Wow! And he had an amazing arrowhead collection.
One of the people who did an amazing amout of work to save the longhorn breed.
My dad told this story on him: He had an old wild longhorn that he could never get in the pen on horseback. So one day, he took out his gun, shot her, then tied a rope on her horns and drug her in the pen and said: "See there you old B#*ch, I told you I would get you in the pen!"
If you want to read about another tough old bird from those days, google O.W. Cardwell. Did a lot for the quarter horse breed. At the time, most Polo ponies were thourobreds until he took a team of himself, two sons, and a couple of ranchers to Austin to play a national polo tournament. He beat the army's national team in the finals. They had a herd of 300 thourobreds to choose from and he used ranch quarter horses. They even had to change the day of the final, because it was scheduled on Suday, and he would not play on Sunday. He had one arm (the other shot off in a hunting accident at 14). He put the reins in his teeth and used his good arm for the mallet.
He was also my grandfather.
They made them tough in those days.
txhunter58
venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
One of the people who did an amazing amout of work to save the longhorn breed.
My dad told this story on him: He had an old wild longhorn that he could never get in the pen on horseback. So one day, he took out his gun, shot her, then tied a rope on her horns and drug her in the pen and said: "See there you old B#*ch, I told you I would get you in the pen!"
If you want to read about another tough old bird from those days, google O.W. Cardwell. Did a lot for the quarter horse breed. At the time, most Polo ponies were thourobreds until he took a team of himself, two sons, and a couple of ranchers to Austin to play a national polo tournament. He beat the army's national team in the finals. They had a herd of 300 thourobreds to choose from and he used ranch quarter horses. They even had to change the day of the final, because it was scheduled on Suday, and he would not play on Sunday. He had one arm (the other shot off in a hunting accident at 14). He put the reins in his teeth and used his good arm for the mallet.
He was also my grandfather.
They made them tough in those days.
txhunter58
venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
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Some great stories!
Like the one where he ##### slapped the lawyer.
I've always wanted to do that.
Like the one where he ##### slapped the lawyer.
I've always wanted to do that.
