An interview with Bud Purdy

Purdy, Leonard N., 1918-2014

[The Oral History Collection consists of taped interviews of long-time residents. This oral history was edited by Miram breckenridge, Judy Johnson, Sandra Hofferber, Shirley Huckins, and Clara Spiegal; transcribed by Bill Robertson., Bud (Leonard) Purdy talks about the problems of sheep ranching and his ranch in Picabo and eventual breakup of the Kilpatrick Brothers Company; discussion of the travels and land purchasing strategy of the Kilpatrick family from circa 1880; discussion of Kilpatrick involvement with railroad construction; discussion of sheep business and sheep herders; discussion of ice cutting business; discussion of range lambing versus shed lambing; discussion of public lands management practices; stories of wild times in sheep business., Transcribed index reads as follows: 1849 3; 1863 3; 1870 4; 1877 1, 2; 1881 1, 2; 1882 1, 2, 5; 1883 1, 6, 8; 1889 1, 6; 1898 6; 1900 15; 1910 24; 1914 9; 1915 15; 1917 23; 1920 23; 1932 31; 1936 33; 1938 15, 33; 1939 15; 1940 16, 24, 30; 1944 16; 1949 35, 36; 1950 16, 20, 24; 1951 16, 35-37; 1955 6, 17; 1958 19; 1960 19, 24; 1970 25; Africa 17, 18; Albrethsen, Martin; Arco desert 33-34; Arco, ID 34-36; Arkoosh, Mr. 12; Aston family 14; Bacon, Clyde 13, 22, 31; Bacon, Robert (Bob) 22; Basque 13-14, 19; Baetrice, NE 3; Bellevue, ID 5, 6, 21; Big Butte 33; Bigwood 11; Black Hills, SD 4; Blaine County, ID 6; blizzard 33-37; Bradley Hill 5; Breckenridge, John 22; Breckenridge, L. L. (Father Breck) 14; Brett family 1; Brigham Point 35; Bureau of land Management, grazing 25-29; Buttram, Hatch 31; Buttram, Rube 31-33; Campbell, Everett; Carey, ID 13, 14; Carlin, Henry 31-34; Carter family 14; cattle 18, 21, 23; Challis Forest 13; Chess family 13; Chinese 5; Cove Creek 1, 12, 32; desert 15; desert entry 1, 6; Dry Creek 9; East Fork of the Wood River 10, 11, 18, 31; Faulkner family 11, 20; Fish Creek 11, 13, 18; Flat Top Sheep Company 20; Forest reserve 10; Fowler, William (Bill) 31; Fox, Dr. Earl 12; Freeman Homestead National Monument 3; Gage County, NE 6; Gannett, ID 7-8; Gooding family 1, 9-10; Gooding, Edward 10; Gooding, ID 2; Gooding, Thomas 10; Gray, Johnny 13; Gross Drugstore 5; gun play 5, 29-30, 32-33; Hailey, ID 11-12, 32; hogs 3, 23; holidays 33; Homestead Act 3; Huff Creek 13, 35; ice cutting 15; Idaho dept. of Fish and Game 26; Illinois 3; Indian Creek Ranch 31-33; Johnson, Lawrence 34; Ketchum Livestock Association 9-12; Ketchum, ID 12; Kilpatrick Brothers 1-2, 6, 91-2, 16-17; Kilpatrick Commissary 5; Kilpatrick Store 5; Kilpatrick, Mrs. W. H. 4; Kilpatrick, R. J. 1; Kilpatrick, S. D> 1; Kilpatrick, W. H. 1, 5, 6-8, 16; Laidlaw park 13; land management, fencing 26; land management, reduction 20, 25, 27-29; land amanagement, rest-rotation 27; land management, seeding 25, 26; lane, jack 11; lava lake ranch 13, 18, 21; Lessenby, Mr. 1; Little Wood River 12, 13; Little, David 28; Mackay, ID 34, 36; Magic Reservoir 12; Masseur, Leo 34; McLaughlin, Mr. 2; Mexicans 5, 13-14; Millington, Pat 2; Moyne, Harry 22; Multiple Use principle 22; Multiple Use principle, recreation 24-28; Newcastle, Wyoming 4; Northern Pacific Railroad 4; Ogden, UT 4; Oregon 6; Oregon Shortline Railroad 4; Palmer family 13; Payne Brothers 1, 2; Picabo store 7, 13, 15, 22, 23, 34-36; predators, poisin 19; Public Lands 24-29; Purdy, Paul 17-19; Purdy, Ruth 8, 9; Quigly Gulch 11-12, 31; railroad 15, 16; railroad roundhouse 4; road contracting 3, 7, 8; Rushneck, Joseph (Joe) 13; Sawtooth Grazing Association 11; Schmel, Mr. 2; Scotts 13-14, 31; sheep herders 13-14, 19-20, 29, 34; sheep, range lambing 22; sheep, shearing 15; sheep, shed lambing 13, 14, 21-22, 30, 36; sheep, transportation 32; Sherbine family 19; Sherbine, Astor 20; Shoshone, ID 2, 4-6; smallpox epidemic 9; Stanley, ID 9; Struthers, Margaret 18, 19; tax law 18; Tennessee 13; Teren, Teddy 12; Texas 22; Tikura, ID 1; U. S. Forest Service 11, 20, 24-25, 27-28; U. S. National Forest 24; Union Pacific Railroad 4; water rights 1-2; water rights, drains 1-2; water rights, rathole 2; wilderness 26; Wildhorse Canyon 13, 35; Wilson, J. H. 6; Wood River 32., Water rights 1883. Idaho,; Picabo; Ice manufacture 1950s. Railroad; Sheep 1938-1955. Idaho; Picabo]

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