Your Moderator

yay! We aren't afloat alone in this here wilderness. Welcome Derek, thanks for taking us on, I promise no shooting atcha. Course, can't speak for the others.

Welcome and thanks!

Soon as I wrap my brain around a Scot being the mod of a Western forum...

Thanks, Derek!

Actually it's fitting in a way, since Scotsmen were major players in the cattle business, especially on the northern plains. Kind of an interesting historical circle, if you will.

dpaterso said:

Giddy-up horsey, och aye the noo.

...see, it just rolls off the tongue. Shrek's tongue, that is.

-Derek

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I now see you as large, green and on a donkey. But wearing a cowboy hat and chaps.

Hmmmm...trying to focus on your avatar instead...

Derek, Couldn't have picked a better man for the job. Thanks for being there for us!

Festus

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:

Soon as I wrap my brain around a Scot being the mod of a Western forum...

Thanks, Derek!

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"Mr. Scott! Full speed on the wagon!"
"Och! Ah'm giving yeh all she's goot!"
"Set Winchesters on stun!"

Cav Guy said:

Actually it's fitting in a way, since Scotsmen were major players in the cattle business . . .

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Yeah, rustlers.

;-)

(just kidding)

alleycat said:

Yeah, rustlers.

;-)

(just kidding)

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No, those were the bloody Micks. The Scots were too cheap t' use their boots t' steal a hoss to go a'rustlin' cattle with.

(also kidding)

Seriously, many of the larger spreads on the northern plains were backed by Scottish money. At least indirectly they played a major role in one of the last cattle frontiers in the West.

Sheep? Sheep! Now you done gone and done it. As my great-grandpappy used to say, "The only good sheep farmer is a dead sheep farmer.".