We got our first snow at the Home Ranch, and dramatic clouds there and at Powder Flat.
We got our first snow at the Home Ranch, and dramatic clouds there and at Powder Flat.
Posted by Ladder Ranch on October 20, 2016 in Events
Tags: Bakers Peak, clouds, Lucky Butte, Squaw Mountain
Patrick and Sharon O'Toole are ranchers in the Little Snake River Valley on the Wyoming-Colorado border. They represent the fourth generation on the six-generation family ranch. The O'Tooles raise cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and children on their high country ranching operation. The transhumance operation stretches from north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Wyoming's Red Desert.
Pat has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives, the Western Water Policy Commission, and is currently President of the Family Farm Alliance, representing irrigators and water users in the western United States.
Sharon is a writer and poet. She writes extensively on western issues, and the relationship between landscape, animals and people. She is widely published as an author, essayist and editorial commentator.
Sharon's father George, 89, passed away December 25, 2010. He lived much of his life in the house where he was born, and remained active in the day-to-day life of the ranch. Mr. Salisbury was a decorated World War II veteran, a former member of Wyoming's House of Representatives, and former President of Wyoming's Board of Agriculture.
Pat and Sharon have three children. Their daughter, Meghan and her husband Brian Lally, live on the ranch with their children, Siobhán, Seamus, Maeve and Tiarnán. Meghan also served on the Wyoming Board of Agriculture, and she and Brian are active in community service. Daughter Bridget lives in Denver with her husband, Chris Abel, where she works in public relations and he serves agriculture in the food business. Son Eamon and his wife Megan live on the ranch with their sons, McCoy and Rhen. Eamon is a horseman and natural resource manager, and Megan is a nurse.
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Donna Sherwood
October 21, 2016 at 6:58 AM
One of these days I’m going to stop in there and see you guys and all the kids who have kids and take a trip down memory lane out to powder flats… I follow you and think of you often. Think of George and Laura and will never forget the first day I ever met George out of power wash… Those were the good old days. But it looks like you guys are reliving the good all days with all your kids and grandkids… What a blessing, truly what a blessing!
Ladder Ranch
October 21, 2016 at 6:16 PM
Don’t be a stranger, Donna. We still have cows to move and beans to eat!