Volume 10 , Issue 7

Valentines Day Snow Storm

Though the higher elevations of the Rocky mountains received new snow fall readings this week, here in the valley south of Bayfield, we have seen warmer temperatures and the snow has slowly compacted and started to melt... slowly, of course, making things a bit muddy around here. We did see another couple of inches of snow here in the valley around Valentines Day.

We hear that Oklahoma might have had some rain and are expecting icy stuff this weekend but not as much as was originally predicted. AND... Oklahoma gas prices around Perry, Oklahoma have gone back up to $2.93.9. Our gas prices at the Conoco in Bayfield, Colorado have still been hanging steady at $2.99.9. If you go down highway 160 to the East, the Phillips 66 station, gas prices are 3-cents higher.

I got sidetrack this weekend watching the old oscar winning movies on the Turner Classic Movie (TCM) channel the last few days. Remember the movie with John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, in "True Grit," directed by Henry Hathaway in 1969, with John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby. A drunken, hard-nosed US Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn young woman track the murderer of her father in Indian Territory. Actually, the filming took place mainly in Ouray County, Colorado, in the vicinity of Ridgway (now the home of the True Grit Cafe), and the town of Ouray. The courtroom scenes were filmed at Ouray County Court house in Ouray.

We have also managed to transcribe some more Oklahoma histories from A Standard History of Oklahoma that had some interesting stories from that time.

We would love to hear some of your ancestor's growing up memories of life in the twin territories. AND... old photos that you might find in your grandparent's treasures of the past. Thanks to all of you who have shared your memories with us all in the "OkieLegacy Ezine."
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