~ Ranch Hand Wanted ~

   Ranch hand needed to do hard work on 10,000 acre ranch in southern wyoming. We will pay about $30 a month and we include a room and supper every night as you work for us. Some of the work that needs to be done is fence repair, cattle moving, cattle drives, barn raising, and plowing and planting of the fields. All ranch hands live together in a one room bunkhouse with around 30 men in it. We will also pay you a extra $5 a month if you take the job of hauling the grain to the mill to sell. Cattle drives run from our ranch to my brothers ranch in northern texas and then back to us. We also provide you with a horse and all the tack you need. If interested please send a letter to Double T Ranch, Thermopolis Wyoming.

Thanks,
Tyler Tedford
Double T Ranch

My Life: John Plower

   This is a breaking news story! The south has lost the war and the reconstruction process now begins...Fast Forward 12 months......I am a white southerner that fled during the war. My family owned about 150 slaves. Our plantation raised mostly cotton and tobacco. After the first band of confederate soldier's passed our home we sent my mother and three sisters off to Texas with friends they would be safe from the war. I am only 14 years old and not old enough to go to the war, I am helping my father run the plantation. We have had many hardships through the war. We have fought off northern soldiers trying to take our food and supplies and we have had to house southern soldiers in our home. Right now our house is set up as a hospital for injured southerners. We have taken in over 50 people who have lost there homes in the war. We are one a few owners of slaves who freed our slaves when the war started. I myself do not support slavery but it has been in my family for over 100 years. Right now though my father is very sick and I and our ex head slave are running the farm until my father get better. We are right now letting any of our ex slaves staying their quarters and help farm the land for a small pay. We have lots to do in the next few months, we need to rebuild the barn and fix the roofs on the living quarters. I am also working on bringing my mom and three sisters back.