Cowboy and Roping Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519110190)

I was born and raised on the JA ranch in 1935 to Tom and Eleanor Blasingame. Dad had the Cherokee Camp there on the south side of the ranch. Then, we had no electricity, running water or indoor toilets. The water on all the river country was gyp and unfit to drink. We had a cistern that caught rainwater, and it was good to drink. I liked it better than this ol' town water. I was six years old when a bronc Dad had pawed me and broke my leg. They hauled me 45 miles on a mattress in the back of a pickup to Clarendon and then on to Groom to get a cast put on it. I worked ever' summer at wagon 'til I graduated, then married Joyce Crutchfield, and then we worked on eight different ranches. We moved a lot and kept the U-Haul Company in business. The last ranch I was at, I worked there for 17 years 'til it sold, and we then moved to Hereford where we retired. Joyce retired from the Gas Company after 17 years, and I retired from the City of Hereford after 18 years. In all, I worked on 15 different ranches.