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In 1953, a fifteen year old boy wrote of his great outdoor summer adventure that took place in the West and it has to be one of the best summers a kid could ever have! Mt Rushmore, Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Vagabond Ranch, girls, whitewater rafting down the “River of No Return”, fishing, flying, and eating the best food around the campfire. What a fantastic experience! And oh yes, he did all of this and had a knife fight in a corn field just to start things off.
Clockwise from upper left: Large group photo from 1949; Charlie and Lonnie Pavek – Founders of Vagabond Ranch; Unidentified group of boys in front of Wranglers Cabin. Photos from Comics Kingdom Website.
Charlie and Polly Bemis on their ranch along the Salmon River. Bemis Ranch as it looks today.
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