Loose Ends: One gobbler too many

Accounts of life on many of the ranches at the turn of the 19th century usually include humorous remembrances of the animal members of the family, including the farmyard creatures. The remembrance of rancher Al Ellison in the Rio Blanco Historical Society’s edition of “This Is What I Remember, Volume II,” remembered one particularly aggressive tom turkey.
“Al Ellison stocked B.M. Vaughan’s ranch with all manner of fowl-ducks, geese, guineas, light Brahma and Plymouth Rock…