I Figured

Earlier this week Ed posted <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/blog/citylights/index.php?p=628">Peace and quiet, city style</a>, in which he mentioned his foray "at a ranch near Livingston." I read that and I figured he had been at the Mission Ranch. Sure enough, that is what the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/10/build/state/35-making-it-pay.inc">story</a> is about. My knowdledge of the Mission ranch? It was my grandpa's place. Which by coincidence puts me on his place "down in southeastern Montana." Now the ranch I'm on is actually my grandpa's wifes fathers place, my great-granddad, who moved into this country in about 1915. <br />n<br />nThe whole article is family history to me. Of course as with all family history, there is a seamier side to it that isn't presented by Doug but it isn't really important for the article or life. Things happen and you just have to move on from them and benifit from wisdom that life has provided you. It was an interesting article though. I always wondered though why grandpa, with only a high school education, could make a highly sucessful ranch while his college educated daughter couldn't make it work without <u>extensive</u> help from the university system?<br />n<br />n<b>History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. Konrad Adenauer</b>