The Storer Family Bell

The Storer Family Bell
Our bell

Thursday, August 13, 2015

August 13, 1913-Wednesday:  Everybody up at 5:30 AM.  Breakfast--hot cakes, bacon, eggs and coffee.  Broke campe at 7 AM.  Stopped at Leach's Sheep camp at 8:10.  Took some picutres of the outfit.  Stopped for lunch at Blacktail Deer Lake at 12 o'clock noon.  arrived at P & O Cow camp at 3:30 PM.  Cooked our supper in a cabin that had been built in 1876.  This is in the Centennial Valley.  Sandy, the foreman of this outfit, joined our party with his two saddle horses--Pacer and H8.  We took pictures of the cowboys and Ethel, also pictures of the cabin and riders.  (from Della Kurtz's diary)

From Recollections of Norman, Lester and Jim Kurtz in 1980:
The Kurtz boys, Ollie, Norman and Lester wore high top boots.  The boys slept in a tent with their parents, Bertha and Oliver.  They were the only children on the trip, Lester was then called "Babe" as Aunt Dell writes in her diary.  There were two other tents, one for the men and one for the girls and Grandma Kurtz.  Ollie and Norman fought to ride the grub wagon (chuck wagon) driven by Jack Clay.  Uncle Jim drove the grub wagon after Jack Clay got mad and left.  The surrey was drawn by two mules borrowed from Charlie Humes.  Jack Shaffner drove them.  Probably they all traded around in driving the different rigs. 

This must be the building referred to where they cooked supper.
The young girls on the trip were:  Lulu Kurtz, Della Kurtz Mabel Philips and Ethel O'Leary
Notice the pistols!
 
 

1 comment:

  1. I believe that my Grandmother, Mabel Phillips, went on this trip with Jack Clay but met my Grandfather, James Kurtz so Jack left, leaving the cooking to the girls and the driving of the chuck wagon to my Grandfather.

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