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a 17,000 acre ranch in Mendocino County is the domain of Mrs J. W. May Jr. Of san Francisco with its hills and virgin redwoods. It is surely one of the most beautiful ranches in the west kate as she is known to. Her friends learned sheep ranching

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during World War two. I had never done any ranching, I had to learn from scratch and that turned out to be nobody else to come here to do it because three sons were out in the pacific. My husband has taken on the job of president. However,

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commission, which was a tremendous job during the war, millions of shipping went out of it. Report of san Francisco and he said to me, do you suppose you could go up there and try or do we give up all the livestock. And I said, well I

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can do no more than fail. I don't know anything about it. I had no idea how hard it was going to be. So I came up here and everything I learned, I learned from experience because telephoning was difficult at that time. I couldn't get in touch

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with others. There were no books to read on it. It was just something that you played by ear all the way through. And if anyone ever wants to try this and work perhaps 18 hours 17 hours a day When they're in their early 50s, I'll tell

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them that they have to love hard manual labor every summer mrs mayor with some of her Children and grandchildren goes on a pack trip into the wilderness astride the continental divide in Montana just below Glacier National Park. This year's trip was marred by an unfortunate mishap.

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We had a great deal of trouble with our pack train. We had a great deal of trouble with the mules. We had a great deal of trouble with the horses. They were what we called. They were ready to spook at anything and nothing. And my mayor

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who rather likes this book and which I ordinarily of mind world and not to quote part way out of us. My container, my camera container, which into which I stuffed code and it was just far and about courtesy. And so she went to work to try

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to buck that thing that she didn't recognize off. I stayed with us for five of those books and then my hat went off and that was the last straw as far as she was concerned. And she gave one prodigious book and the hat sailed and I

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sailed after it landed in a pile of logs and when I got home after riding Having to ride about 35 miles out of the wilderness after this and then flying to Palo Alto and then driving from Palo alto to san Francisco. When I finally arrived at

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the hospital to be x rayed, I found I'd cracked a vertebra