Country Lifestyles
Pam Blanscet Schenk’s Story of the Sesquicentennial Wagon Train
By Judy Wade
“I was one of five women who rode horseback or in the wagon every day that the wagon train moved,” Pam Blanscet Schenk said about her trip with the 1986 Sesquicentennial Wagon Train that zig-zagged its way across 3,000-plus miles of Texas celebrating the 150th anniversary of the state’s independence from Mexico.
“I was in Jacksboro working in my uncle’s ice plant when I heard and ad on WBAP radio about the wagon train. I thought, ‘That’s the closest thing I’ll ever get to living like it was 100 years ago,’” Schenk recalled.
Frances Johnson told her about Betty McGaha, who was outfitting a wagon in Henrietta, and Schenk was able to join her and her driver and horse wrangler Randy Chadwick for the journey. “My plan was to ride my mare Roxy and pack my other horse Bo with my supplies. I got a pack saddle and panniers and learned how to balance the load and pack everything,” she explained.
Her plan didn’t work out quite the way she thought it would. “I found out Roxy was pregnant, so I took my dad’s big thoroughbred, Duke. That didn’t make my dad too happy,” Schenk related.
Schenk is 5’ 1”, and Duke was a conservative 16 hands, or at least 5’ 4” at the withers, so saddling and mounting proved a challenge for the cowgirl every day, but she managed. However, Duke proved to be a challenge several times. “During one of our ‘practice wagon trains’ before we actually set out, we were camped on the Ross Ranch in Jolly. A pump jack started up, Bo and Duke spooked and Bo got a rope wrapped around my leg,” she recalled.
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By Jesse Kader
This month western meets safari with this fun army green jumpsuit. I love a good jumpsuit that is simple but stylish and can be accessorized in so many ways. This one especially caught my eye because of the western yoke detail. See this and more at www.jessesjewelz.com
University of North Texas music students were in awe by Texas Music icon, Lyle Lovett recently during his visit to the Denton campus to share his music and personal secrets on navigating a successful music career.
The four-time Grammy winner has recorded 14 albums and has released 25 singles throughout his illustrious career. He’s also most famous for creating his Large Band consisting of his talented rhythm section and a full horn section.
I too have had the honor of recording with Lyle during my time with Asleep At The Wheel and being a UNT grad, I was pleasantly surprised by this act of good will toward these young musicians.
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By Martha Crump
In the April issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch, I introduced the discussion of what is considered the Biden 30X30 Land Grab via the quiet attempt to push through the formation of Natural Asset Companies. If you are a landowner and have not heard about this, I encourage you to research it for your own protection.
Natural Asset Companies would have been publicly tradable securities that hold rights to, and manage the productivity and ecological benefits of natural assets such as natural forests, marine areas and farmland. They place a value on natural processes. Thanks to the watchful eye of a few, NACs have been stopped for now, but make no mistake, this battle is far from over. According to the American Stewards of Liberty, the Intrinsic Exchange Group is the company responsible for the failed attempt to monetize natural processes via the development of “Natural Asset Companies.”
The New York Times is already helping IEG to set the stage for a rebranding of the idea with the article they ran entitled “Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest In It?” which ran on Feb. 18 of this year. The NYT readily assured their readers that, “Natural asset companies would put a market price on improving ecosystems, rather than on destroying them.” That is a perfect lead-in for IEG as they had already indicated that they would be rebranding the idea in yet another attempt to create the investment vehicle.
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