Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

As kids, we were always anxious to help our fathers (it was always the fathers those days) in their work. We were participating in the adult life, plus we learned new and fun things. The work was enjoyable until we were old enough to be paid; that's when it became misery.

One task that became an annual project for us as children was helping to roll the old barbed wire left by the homesteaders'...