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https://soapweedsoliloquy.wixsite.com/order-now We sure do appreciate your friendship through the years. Looking through these discussions have brought back many fond memories. Praying you all have a very fine year. Peach

LAST OF THE CODY WOLVES by Clint Anderson From the March 1968 WESTERN HORSEMAN Submitted by Steve Moreland, February 13, 2018 It was a cold winter night that was about spent, and snow covered the rolling Sand Hills. The morning passenger train, as it was called in Cody, Nebraska, was boring...

COULD HAVE BEEN A WHEELY BAD DEAL By Steve Moreland – July 17, 2021 The railroad went through northern Nebraska in 1885. Even though equipment was primitive, and the work was done with man-powered shovels and genuine hide-covered horse-powered fresnos, it seemed to go fast. All the towns...

MOOSE HEAD MEMORY OF THE HAYRIDE HOLDUP By Steve Moreland – June 13, 2021 In the summer of 1970, I had an enjoyable job as a wrangler on the Moose Head Ranch in the heart of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This lovely guest ranch was 120-acres of deeded land, with the distinction of being the only...

OUR 1980 RED FORD F150 PICKUP By Steve Moreland – March 14, 2021 Carol and I were married in June of 1979. At that time, she had a 1966 Dodge Dart that had earlier belonged to Cecil Dahlgren, and had seen its better days. My vehicle was a 1978 gas-guzzling rough-riding fulltime four-wheel...

ANOTHER MEMORY OF OUR 1980 RED FORD PICKUP By Steve Moreland – March 17, 2021 Carol’s sister and her husband, Julie and Terry Pitkin, lived in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. We had been there visiting, and were on the way back to our ranch near Merriman. I was driving our red single cab 1980 Ford...

CHRISTMAS COOKIE DAY By Steve Moreland – December 12, 2016 Today was the annual Christmas Cookie Day at our local Security First Bank in Merriman. Loretta Fish went all out in making some magnificent chicken noodle soup and many delightful-tasting decorated cookies. My son, Brock, and I took...

My friend, Kay Wolfenden, recently told me this story. I suggested she write it down for the sake of posterity, and here is her “glowing” account: UNPLANNED ADVENTURE OF A YOUNG RANCH WIFE By Kay Wolfenden – October 10, 2020 Sometime in the early 1970’s, I was sent on the long road from...

MY THOUGHTS ON THE CATTLE MARKET - Steve Moreland - October 10, 2020 A young friend gave me a point to ponder on Facebook messenger last evening. He asked me, “What are your thoughts on the cattle market?” These ideas on the cattle market are roaming in my head. We have in the past two weeks...

MANY OF OUR PASTURES are named after the old homesteaders that first settled this country. On our ranch, our better land with more gently rolling hills and sub-irrigated hay meadows is on the Nebraska side of the border. Our South Dakota land is rough hills, sandy pastures, and not nearly as...

I’M GOING TO OPEN MY DOOR UP By Steve Moreland, May 9, 2020 A couple Canadian cousins were going to have a double birthday celebration in the town of Rockglen, Saskatchewan during the week-end of August 18th and 19th in 2007. Grace Justus would be turning 90 years old, and her sister Dorothy...

FUN EVENING PLAYING CRIBBAGE By Steve Moreland – February 27, 2020 On Wednesday evenings, Cody’s Husker Hub hosts “cribbage night.” Usually there are about seven or eight cribbage players that show up, and the card games are run tournament style. The entry fee is $6.00 each time, and names...

FROM OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES By Steve Moreland, February 20, 2020 Yesterday, Carol went to pick up any grandkids that would be spending the day with us. When she arrived back home, not only did she have the two youngest that we knew would be here, but also one of the six-year-old twins came...

BOOTS By Steve Moreland – January 1, 2020 PART ONE As the song goes, “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys.” Ever since I was a wee small lad, this saying has held true. With cowboys come boots and hats, and no matter how good of a hand they might be, other forms of footwear and headwear just...

GOOSE—HE WAS A GOOD ONE By Steve Moreland, November 22, 2019 Back in the year 2001, we had our brandings on the last two Saturdays of April like usual. No one else seemed to brand in April in those days, preferring to wait until May, so this plan worked out well for many years. On April 28th...

IT’S HARD TO BE A HERO By Steve Moreland, October 10, 2019 Back in 1988, calving time was sneaking up rapidly. Carol and I had two small children, Will (five years old) and Tiffany (not quite two), and we had only lived on our “new” ranch for less than two years. Looking back through our old...

This is a rather entertaining event that my dad wrote about, which happened five years ago. Friends and Fancies #567 By Bob Moreland, August 6, 2014 The annual Tri-State Cowboy Breakfast was this past Saturday, July 26th, in connection with the Sheridan County Fair and Rodeo in Gordon...

STORY OF THE LOST CHAIRS By Steve Moreland, July 21, 2019 Back in my younger years, there were no cell phones, and not everyone even had a landline telephone. Local calls were handled by a telephone operator, who would connect the caller to whoever they wanted to call. The caller would ring...

AN OLD COWBOY’S LAMENT By Steve Moreland, July 19, 2019 A few months ago I was sitting at the sale barn with an old friend, who has been a cowboy and rancher all his life. In our conversation he lamented that he needed a new hat, but hesitated in buying one because they were so expensive. I...