Re: RE: Owyhee High Country

["Karen Sullivan" <greymare@jps.net>]

Hi Steph,

This may the one ride I someday haul a long distance to go to!  If anyone
remembers from their childhood a series of books by Glenn Balch called the
Tack Ranch series (Lost Horse, Christmas Horse, Wild Horse Tamer, etc, with
main characters being children Ben and Dixie), it was set near the Owyhee
high country area.  That always sounded so wild and wonderful, and your ride
has sparked my interest.  Living in that area, do you remember those books?
Glenn Balch is out of print, and his books collectors items.  They were some
of the best horse books I ever read as a child, and as an adult, I have
collected the whole series.

Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steph Teeter" <steph@endurance.net>
To: "Linda B. Merims" <lbm@naisp.net>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:06 PM
Subject: RC: RE: Owyhee High Country


> Hi Linda - Owyhee county is in the SW corner of Idaho. The ride is south
of
> the Snake River, on the east side of the Owyhee Mtns. Large county, very
few
> people. It's pretty remote and 'wild west'. A large portion of it
(including
> our place) was on Clinton's National Monument list - some incredible
> country. Didn't happen though. (probably after Babbitt's visit they
figured
> they'd need the Nat'l Guard to protect gov't employees from the locals :)
>
> Idaho is still fairly unpopulated - I think it's 65% public land - FS,
BLM,
> Wilderness. Ranges from close to sea-level (Hell's Canyon - Snake River)
to
> 12,000 foot mountains. Still a lot of gun-totin' anti-government renegades
> left in this state...   Ruby Ridge, Claude Dallas ...
>
> I love it!
>
> Steph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda B. Merims [mailto:lbm@naisp.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:56 PM
> To: Steph Teeter
> Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC: Owyhee High Country
>
>
>
> Steph Teeter <steph@endurance.net> wrote:
>
> >Well it's over. Not too bad, for a first time ride...
>
> Steph, where is Owyhee High Country?  I'm looking at my map of
> Idaho and I don't see it anywhere.  (Lots of great names
> though, to conjure up wonderful images:  "Nez Perce National Forest,"
> "River of No Return Wilderness Area," "Bitterroot Wilderness,"
> "Tin Can Flat," "Gospel Hump Wilderness.")
>
> Is this the same area where people were afraid that Clinton/Babbitt
> were going to declare a National Monument?  The area Babbitt
> helicoptered out to and had some kind of perfunctory public
> meeting?  Did this ever happen?
>
> Linda B. Merims
> lbm@naisp.net
> Massachusetts, USA
>
>
>
>
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