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

By Lee York
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Family, Ranching, and Hard Work

 

Last updated 12/3/2019 at 8:55pm

Lee York

A dog keeps an eye on a cow at the Fleming Ranch.

I met Tel Menard on a cold, snowy day in October while he was shoeing horses for his sister Katie.

Tel is a modern-day rancher and a part of Montana's ranching history that dates to the 1860s, when ranchers and cattle first moved into Montana.

His ranching lineage in Lincoln goes back to 1965 when his grandparents, Betty and Gerald Fleming, began working at the Jacobsen ranch. The Jacobsen's b...



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