I'm Off to Montana for to Throw the Hoolihan (Code of the West) (25 page)

“I believe you’re right. Did I actually ask you to shoot me?”

“Yep.”

“I’m very glad you didn’t.”

“So am I.” His jaw seemed locked in a permanent grin. “How you feelin’, darlin’?”

“I feel. . . skinny.” She puckered her parched lips for a kiss.

Aimee “Pepper” Paige Andrews

b. 1852, Atlanta, Georgiam. December 24, 1882

d. 1933, Yellowstone County, Montana

Tapadera Andrews

b. 1855, Tuolumne County, California

d. 1921, Yellowstone County, Montana

Their Children:

(All born in Yellowstone County, Montana)

Zachariah Hatcher Andrews

b. 1883m. Martha Naomi Clark, December 24, 1903

d. 1959

They had 7 children, 21 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren.

Suzanne Cedar Andrews

b. 1883 m. Paul James Stoner, December 24, 1903d. 1976

They had 5 children, 10 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren.

Patricia Paige Andrews

b. 1885d. 1892

“Punkin’” died from cholera andwent to be with Jesus on Easter Sunday.

Eugene Stuart Andrews

b. 1887m. Elizabeth May Brannon, December 24, 1919d. 1961

She died in an automobile accident in 1921. They had no children. Eugene never remarried.

Tapadera Andrews, Jr.

b. 1895m. French actress Lea Devrais, December 24, 1925d. 1974

They had 3 children, 7 grandchildren,

2 great-grandchildren (as of this printing).

Two years after the death of her husband, Lucinda Miller married Henry “Stack” Lowery.

In 1893 Peter Miller Lowery married Angelita Rachel Gomez. They inherited the Sphinx gold mine in 1899. Still in limited production, the mine is owned today by the Lowery family. Angelita died in 1975 at the age 103, although she insisted, only weeks before her death, she was 99.

On the trail,
Stephen Bly

Stephen Bly

Pork City, Montana, in '23

was changin' for all the world to see

The slaughterhouse sold, and hogs ran free

Pork City, Montana, in '23

Roustabouts swarmed like locust in the sand

Derricks sprouted up where the sage used to stand

Iron pipe laced this wilderness land

Crude oil flowed, the economy fanned

Pork City, in '23

Pork City, Montana, in '53

as desolate a place as you're ever goin' to see

Stores boarded up, it was time to flee

Pork City, Montana, in '53

Weeds in the blacktop, porches startin' to fold

Shingles in the yard, woodstoves growin' cold

Rows of $100 houses, ever' one of 'em u
nsold

Families uprooted, their stories never told

Pork City, in '53

Pork City, Montana, in '93

As lively a place as you'll ever want to see

Shoppin' mall's where the slaughterhouse used to be

Pork City, Montana, in '93

They came back to the land, to graze and to till

Of big city livin' they all had their fill

They claim they'll stay and I reckon they will

Sharin' them sunsets with wild hogs on the hill

Pork City, in '93

from "When The Cowboys Come To Town"

cowboy poetry by Stephen Bly

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