Thank you, Sourdough! Yes, you did share that one with me and I am waiting for the book!!! WOW, you have given me some of the very concrete things I was wondering about and I think I have half the battle won, already! Way back in 1987, when all I had was a little tape recorder adn an old 286 computer, I transcribed the whole tape of my dad. I lost the computer file, but had a hard copy which I am using to enter it into this wundermachine.

There is not a lot of material, but I think as I go, I will be asking dad for more clarifications and that ALWAYS leads to MORE stories. So, I figure with what I already have, the poems of granddad, and the great lot of photos I have, it should fill up to a good size. I have many, many early photos of Leadville, in general, for one, which I think would be of interest, as well as originals of the old sod-roofed, homestead cabin with my great-grandparents and great-great grandad, as well as my grandfather when he was little.

SD, it is interesting,I feel I know my granddad, Frank Hudson, and his dad, L.D., so well, yet both died before i was born. That I know them at all is due to my dad and his great ability to tell stories. He will be 83 on May 8th. I would really love to get this done before he takes his last trail ride.

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