Pen Pals.......
When I was sixteen, I joined the Gene Autry Friendship Club. In the little newsletter, was a list of names asking for pen pals. I live in upstate New York, and thought it might be interesting to hear from someone out west, so I picked the name Henry Wasson from Elk Springs, Colorado.
Henry and his brother G R were old time cowboys in their seventies, I have saved all the letters, along with the pictures Henry sent. These old-timers sounded quite knowledgeable from a lifetime of ranch and outdoor living. I would write and tell them about horses I was training, and they would write back with a bit of friendly wisdom and helpful advice. I wrote to both of them for quite a few years.
Their letters are real treasures, for they wrote about their earlier days on a ranch, and all the misspelled words made their letters even more unique.
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