tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post4586322234447051487..comments2024-03-28T16:31:23.093-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: Wilderness Boyhood with HorsesP. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-29087732444295469652016-03-11T07:04:52.036-08:002016-03-11T07:04:52.036-08:00BB, what an idea! You driving through the pass, Ma...BB, what an idea! You driving through the pass, Mark probably out rounding up horses from their winter range, the two of you obvious to each other's existence -- and so we slide by each other, every day, oblivious.<br /><br />Gerry, there is plenty of river stuff, nearly a whole chapter near the end. You will LOVE. IT!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-32672104823608015472016-03-10T17:16:13.130-08:002016-03-10T17:16:13.130-08:00I am not even a horse person in the way you are, b...I am not even a horse person in the way you are, but I want a copy of that book.<br /><br />I am a rivers person, and a person who can live in a book while I'm reading it. Not every book of course, but I understand why you couldn't read this one aloud.<br /><br />Gerryhttp://torchlakeviews.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-13799803029841703802016-03-10T13:53:20.245-08:002016-03-10T13:53:20.245-08:00Thanks for the fascinating review. I looked that r...Thanks for the fascinating review. I looked that ranch up on google<br />earth (the new atlas, I guess) and realized a bit of connection.<br />In May 1966 I ended my Army tour-two years at Dugway Proving Ground.<br />That peculiar institution of germ warfare and poison gas experiments<br />was another large unfenced, but well guarded expanse the west, but<br />primarily desert. My wife of 3/4 of a year and I packed our 63 Chevy<br />and headed back to Wisconsin and thought to drive up to the Tetons<br />and Yellowstone to see that part of the country. It was early April<br />and the SW pass to Cody had just opened, so we were in the first few<br />cars to pass through the Park. Who would have though that after<br />we slid through the pass with 20 feet of snow on each side, we would<br />drive past the ranch where a 12 year old Mark Spragg, incipient novelist, was bundled up working at his chores? The weather in that<br />area is affected vertically so that as we pulled into Cody it was sunny and fifty degrees warmer than the previous hour. BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.com