We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Three generations of Obrechts, part of the Petrie family, pose in front of the century old barn built in 1916: (l-r) Fifth generation Tyrel and wife Lindsey, fourth generation Linda and Sam and third generation Nellie and Sonny. Louie Petrie and Frances, Nellie's parents, were the second generation to work the ranch. George Petrie and his wife, Nellie, homesteaded Mutton Hollow in 1901.
Some weeks ago I found an abandoned copy of An Ornery Bunch on the "giveaway bench" where we live at the Grande Villa in Chinook. An Ornery Bunch is a book of anecdotes and tales collected by the Montana Writers' Project between 1935 and 1942. The Writers' Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that kept writers and other artists employed during the Great Depression (1929-1941). With the outbreak of World War II, publishing the collected stories was set aside for the war effort. An Ornery Bunch was published in 1999 and contains about 100 examples of Montana's coll...
