All are welcome to join us for homemade soup and pies as we celebrate our work in 2019. Speaker for the evening will be Jim Gray, a sixth-generation Kansan who co-founded the COWBOY (Cockeyed Old West Band Of Yahoos) Society to promote and preserve Kansas’s cowboy heritage through the bi-monthly newspaper, Kansas Cowboy. The executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame, he is the author of Desperate Seed:  Ellsworth Kansas on the Violent Frontier and writes the newspaper column “The Way West.”

His presentation at our event, “Head ‘Em Up and Move ‘Em Out” will explore the early days of ranching and trail driving. The drover of yesteryear had little choice but to face the elements placed before him if he was to get his wild cattle to market. This presentation will explore how today’s massive beef industry owes its beginnings to the men and women who were bold enough to “head ‘em up and move ‘em out.”

TO HELP US PLAN FOR MEALS PLEASE RSVP TO HOWARD BY MONDAY NOON ON FEBRUARY 24th!! Either cheneylakewatershed@gmail.com or 620-727-6546 or contact us on the contact page. THANKS!