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The driveway to the acre we lived on:
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-My parents still own this chunk of land, which is exactly one
acre.
+My parents still own this chunk of land, which is two acres. My father had worked his way through college (Monana State University in Bozeman) by working each summer for Billy and Margaret Wallace whose 14,000
acre ranch was just off the Jens exit, bordering the Clark Fork River with the Flint Range Mountains surrounding the ranch. While we were living and working at our Big Sky Motel in Deer Lodge, the Wallaces came to us to see if we wanted to run some cattle on his ranch in exchange for some fence fixing and elk herd protecting. We couldn't do this unless we could live there so the Wallaces gave us 2 acres - wherever we wanted it. Dad picked a spot not too far from the river, with a hill for sledding and Perkins Creek running through it. We fenced it in, moved a trailer house onto it and built the addition. Wallaces gave us an easement for the driveway to enter our land
.
-My father purchased the property by working as
a farm hand
for the big rancher in
the area, Billy Wallace
. The deal was
that my
dad would work for Billy for
a year and he would be paid in one acre
of land off
the Wallace ranch
.
+Billy Wallace was
a difficult to work
for, so after
the first summer we tried another arrangement. We would continue running our cattle but pay
the going fee for pasture
. At the end of
that time
dad went back to managing our motel full time. Later we bought the travel stop, Stuckey's, which we named Country Village. I helped Dad with
a lot
of the outside work and helped with the dishwashing. We moved into Deer Lodge when I was starting the 3rd grade. Later we got more
land and moved onto our property by
the Country Village
.
-Billy Wallace was a grumpy old bastard, so my dad knew he would stick exactly to the letter of their deal, while at the same time he would try to work it to his advantage as much as possible.
Normally when you purchase a plot of land from someone, the driveway gets thrown in for free, since obviously you have to have access to your land. Dad knew Wallace would fight him on that, so when the time came for him to measure out the plot, he calculated it to precisely one acre, including the driveway.
-
-So that's why I say it's exactly one acre.
-
-
+ All of these pictures were taken in the 1995-1999 timeframe. We lived here in the late 70s.
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The driveway to the acre we lived on:
Billy Wallace was a difficult to work for, so after the first summer we tried another arrangement. We would continue running our cattle but pay the going fee for pasture. At the end of that time dad went back to managing our motel full time. Later we bought the travel stop, Stuckey's, which we named Country Village. I helped Dad with a lot of the outside work and helped with the dishwashing. We moved into Deer Lodge when I was starting the 3rd grade. Later we got more land and moved onto our property by the Country Village.
All of these pictures were taken in the 1995-1999 timeframe. We lived here in the late 70s.
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