My mother and father were raised on ranches in Montana; mom in Graycliff near the Yellowstone River, and my dad on a horse-and-cattle ranch near Roundup, Montana. Mom was born and raised in Montana and my father was born in 1910 in Lawrence, Washington.
Under the 1909 Homestead Act, my grandfather homesteaded a section of land near Flatwillow, Montana, about 16 miles from Roundup. The section was adjacent to an old stage road that ran across…
