Not one to spend much time alone, Walt often recruits his daughter Dondi to pal around. Mostly they head out to the foothills to see what they can kick up, but on this day Walt sets up target practice for Dondi consisting of tin cans balanced on the top of a rail fence. Dondi hates…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Walt is enamored with Indians and their relationship with the land, and it’s exactly this Walt is thinking about as he bags an antelope, the first of the season. In Wyoming in the 1940s, hunting was a practical part of life—even for a drummer from Camden New Jersey. Home refrigeration was nothing to speak of,…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
As the ground thaws and the buds emerge, Walt and Bert pool the money they earned over the previous seven months, and move with Dondi into a small rental house in Casper Wyoming. Absent are the porch and grace of Bud and Mickey’s rental house; this situation is pure rinky-dink. To the right of the…