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Thanks Frank, as always you've added a real note of high class to the 
day's events.
Laney

DVeritas@xxxxxxx wrote:
> The Last Ride
>  
> /A pioneer in life's sunset/
> /To his pony sang this song/
> /I am going west this time old pal/
> /And can't take you along/
> // 
> /I'm headed over yonder /
> /To the happy hunting grounds/
> /Where life's sorrows cannot follow/
> /And peace and joy abounds/
> // 
> /I've hung up the well-worn saddle/
> /And laid aside my gun/
> /Farewell my pinto pony/
> /Our hunting days are done/
> // 
> /The mountains and the valleys/
> /Shall look for me in vain/
> /The pines and dancing waters/
> /I shall never see again/
> // 
> /A phantom horse shall guide me/
> /On the oldest trail of all/
> /This the path that all must follow/
> /When we hark the final call/
> // 
> /The unknown trail is waiting/
> /In that place where myriads dwell/
> /The land where none returneth/
> /The journey there to tell/
> /
> Voices long forgot are calling/
> /Life's sunlight fading fast/
> /Life's trails are but faint memories/
> /Life's hopes and dreams have passed/
>  
> /I'll be waiting over yonder/
> /Just across the great divide/
> /By the campfire I'll be watching/
> /Good bye old pal I RIDE./
>     
> by Bob Watson (of whom, I have the coolest photograph sitting astride 
> his pinto partner high in the Sierras above the Tevis Trail...so, on 
> this day, I thought this appropriate to provide)
>     Robert Montgomery Watson was one of the earliest white people to 
> live and run a business at the lake. In 1896 he launched the steamer 
> "Tahoe", and in 1908 he and his son Bob built a "honeymoon" cabin in the 
> hills over Tahoe City. Visitors would come to Tahoe via narrow-guage 
> railway that traveled between Truckee and a long pier at the Tahoe 
> Tavern in Tahoe City. Then they'd board the steamer "Tahoe" - the queen 
> of the lake - and tour Lake Tahoe.
>
> Watson became an all-around citizen, working as the area's first 
> constable and building - in one day - the area's first school, Tahoe 
> Lake School, in 1906. Like a barn-raising in the midwest, Watson rallied 
> anyone who'd listen to join in building the structure.
>
>         


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