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To: Mark McLeod who wrote (5337)	3/29/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10227

(Off Topic) Hello Mark.... >>There will be no fishing on the Shields today. I have a small ranch south of Big Timber on the Boulder. Got six inchs of snow yesterday and this morning and it is still coming down. Heard Livingston (ie Deadrock) got hit harder and you know that means the Crazys probably got two feet.>> My grandfather, C.D. "Bill" Wolfe, owned an 1200 acre ranch right along the Yellowstone right in Big Timber from the early 40's until right after he died in '78. My mom and her sister sold it in '79 I think. As a condition of the sale, my family has "rights in perpetuity" to fish the Yellowstone from that ranch. You can check this out yourself. Bill Wolfe was a great man with a big heart and was known all the state for he managed ranches and had an insurance agency out of Billings. Today, all my cousins live in Billings - great people. My Smart side came out of NYC- Pelham Manor NY - by way of Chicago. The Montana connection is from my mother's maiden name - Wolfe and her mother's name "Evers". The Evers Ranch is the old place up north - use to be a Post Office and you can still find "Everson" on some old - even new - maps. As for the Shields property, its 1 1/2 miles south of Clyde Park, MT on route 89. You know the area: a spectacular valley surrounded by three mountain ranges - Crazy Mountains to the east, Beartooth/Absarkees to the south and Bridgers to the west. In the 70's Bobby Knight found his way to our property - having heard of the great fly fishing, etc. I am hearing the Shields is now hotter than the Yellostone - unfortunately they've fished out the Yellow around Livingston. I worked on the Wolfe Ranch in the Shields River Valley during the summers while growing up. It was the cow/calf operation, Everson was where they went to pasture and Big Timber is where sent them to get "fat" prior to shipment. My grandfather loved to go on these magnificent "pack trips" with a dozen or more horses/mules/men along the upper Boulder River into the Lake Plateau Area of the Beartooth Mtns - Lake Pinchot, etc. This was in the 50's and 60's when you could throw a line with 5 lures on it and catch 5 trout. We still have all the old movies - amazing! My wife and I plan on sending our two boys to MT when they come of age. Everyone should have the chance to work on a farm or ranch. I plan to make this a reality for many more kids through a future nonprofit business I'm working on. One of my best friends, who happened to be black, came to work with me on the ranch years ago. They still talk about it in the Shields River Valley - as if he were some Mohammed. I aim to send more minorty kids to the valley - friends of our two boys and others, hopefully. Every summer we gather at "The Clyde Park Ranch" - even though we only have some 400 of the original 1100 - to celebrate the July 4th holiday. We will have a big celebration this year as our #2 son, Thomas will turn one year old on July 4th - the same birthday as his great grandfather Frederick Smart Sr. Nice to have a Montanan on board! Sorry folks, enough of this non-Nextel "stuff"...