Looking Back: Golden Rule days, Pt. 2

Stories from the one room schoolhouses still abound in this area, and so the “when I was a youngster” tales passed down from grandparents are dramatic and vivid. One Axial Basin old timer’s account of his earliest schooldays brings to mind the wide variety of excuses that teachers continue to hear from tardy students.
Edwin Ernest Collom recalled in the Rio Blanco Historical Society’s “This is What I Remember” riding a horse seven miles each…