Memories

I would like to start this week by fixing a mistake on my last article. The wages for Bob were $40.00 per month while he was working for General Sweeney, not $4.00 per month. Forty is small enough!

Bob wrote that a highlight of that year was when Mr. Sweeney asked him to ride along on a wild-horse roundup along with other area ranchers and cowboys. “Real excitement for a Honyocker who had been raised on an Oklahoma farm,” he stated.

September ended his time working for Mr. Sweeney. He then returned to his homestead. But what about his homestead house?

Bob’s brother Edwin had cut, trimmed, and...