Over the
years I’ve cracked more than my share of cowboy jokes about sheep and
sheepherders. Truth is, one of my best friends growing up came from a
sheepherding family and one of the first pretty girls that ever consented to go
out with me raised sheep. So, like it or not, sheep and the people who raise
them have a place in my heart of hearts.
The new
issue of RANGE magazine features two stories I had a hand in, and both are
about sheep people.
On page 64
is story about the family of Lee and Joan Jarvis, who, for decades, have bred,
raised, and supplied range rams to sheep herds all across the West from their
outfits in Utah and Idaho. (The photo above
is Lee horseback, herding sheep on their Idaho ranch.)
In the “Red
Meat Survivors” section of the magazine on page 82 is a profile of Marie
Ormachea Sherman I put together with help from her granddaughter-in-law, Nora
Hunt-Lee. Marie raised sheep—and cattle—for years on Nevada ranches, and still
does. (That’s Marie in the photo with the lamb.)
If you don’t
subscribe to RANGE magazine, you can remedy that situation here: www.rangemagazine.com.
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