April 04, 2004
Weekend Photo Gallery
I don’t know what’s going on in the news right now because I spent all weekend poking around with the cowboys in Oregon’s back country. So you get a photo gallery instead.
Here’s where I’ve been.

Mt. Hood, Oregon’s premier volcano

Mt. Joseph, Wallowa Mountain Range

The charming little town of Joseph, Oregon

Imnaha Canyon

Ghost House, Imnaha Canyon

The Wallowa Mountain Range

The trail to Mt. Joseph

Wallowa Lake

Reflection on the Water
All photos copyright Michael J. Totten
Very pretty. Portland gets another pro-point on my potential future locations list :) Do you know anyone in need of a vet with a degree in Economics and Finance :)
Where I'm from, the countryside is mostly swamp.
Posted by: Green Baron at April 4, 2004 08:17 PMYou missed a lot Michael. Head over to WindsofChange for a round up. Looks like Sadr has volunteered for the chopping block.
Posted by: FH at April 4, 2004 09:07 PMI'm beginning to learn to not trust your absences. They always seem to result in photos that bring on an acute case of homesickness.
Thankfully Southwest now serves Philly, so I can get cheap and easy flights back home. I think I need to take a big vacation this summer and spend a good four days camping in Eastern Oregon and least a few hanging out with my bros in PDX. I wouldn't mind seeing what a real coastline looks like again too (rocks, no sand).
Posted by: Nathan at April 4, 2004 09:11 PMBeautiful photos, MT. Speaking of those lakes, what say you to snorkeling at 6000 ft in the Sierras in early August? Ever given it a go? Unbelievable stuff.
Posted by: Jim at April 4, 2004 09:41 PMMichael, unbelievable photos. Thanks
Posted by: gmroper at April 4, 2004 09:44 PMJim: what say you to snorkeling at 6000 ft in the Sierras in early August?
Sounds COLD as hell to me.
Anyone who tries that in one of our alpine lakes will either jump out quickfast or freeze to death. That water is 32-degree snow-melt. Might as well snorkel off the coast of Alaska. It's warmer in August, but not my much. Maybe it's different down there in So-Cal.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 4, 2004 10:12 PMBeautiful...you said cowboys?
I worked with an extended - family ranching outfit (neighbors back home in Midland) doing end of season gathers in northern New Mexico (Jemez Plateau and caldera). That was way back in the seventies.
Man, I miss those late fall sunrises.
Here in Utah it's time for the Moab Jeep Safari. Even in the middle of a forty vehicle caravan, you can turn around and see a million miles of red rock paradise with nary a soul in sight. Kind of a nice option, when facing a driveline replacement after enjoying the view.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 4, 2004 10:27 PMBeautiful...you said cowboys?
Yep. It's a whole different world in the eastern half of the state. Especially in the Southeastern corner and across the border in Northern Nevada. Real deal cowboys still do their cowboy thing in those parts.
In Portland we've got microbrews, lattes, international cuisine, and the theater. In the east they've got big hats, pickup trucks (they call 'em "rigs"), belt buckles, and shotguns. I don't fit in out there at all, but it's a nice change of pace once in a while. Things are simpler and quieter out there.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 4, 2004 10:45 PM"I don't fit in out there at all, but it's a nice change of pace once in a while. Things are simpler and quieter out there."
That is one reason, among many, why you represent the sane left. You like to experience new things, because they are new, not because they show off your "political awareness."
BTW, awe inspiring pictures. Thanks.
Posted by: FH at April 4, 2004 10:49 PMYou missed a lot Michael. Head over to WindsofChange for a round up. Looks like Sadr has volunteered for the chopping block.
Posted by FH at April 4, 2004 09:07 PM
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You missed nothing Michael. It was all still here after you got back. Thanks for sharing with us a reminder the of peace and quiet and the good things we still have.
Snorkeling: Just west of Lake Tahoe: Loon Lake, 6000 ft., 70-degree (?) water in early August. I used to drink it by the mouthful while snorkeling all day as a kid, risking a little jiardia. Unbelievable taste, unbelievable underwater views.
Posted by: Jim at April 4, 2004 11:04 PMAny idea about the symbol on the side of that Mt. Joseph barn?
Posted by: Bob71 at April 5, 2004 05:55 AMWhat's going on in the news right now? Iraq is spinning out of control.
Andrew Sullivan:
"More and more, it seems hard to avoid inferring that we made one huge mistake: not in liberating Iraq, but in attempting to occupy it with relatively few troops. You have to have unquestioned security before any sort of democracy can begin to function. But, under the Rumsfeld plan, we never had the numbers or resources to do precisely that."
Anthony Cordesman, in "The Facts We Must Face", Washington Post, April 4, 2004, Outlook section:
Much of the reason that the United States now faces a war after the war is that senior officials in the Bush administration indulged in a neoconservative fantasy that Saddam's regime would crumble in ways that allowed unknown and unpopular Iraqi exiles to govern. It did not plan to secure the country once the Iraqi armed forces were defeated. Its initial nation-building plans were little more than a sick joke that prepared for burning oil fields and a food crisis, but not for rebuilding a nation of 26 million devastated by 30 years of dictatorship, and more than 20 years of sanctions and war."
I want to hear some mea culpa's right now.
Posted by: Markus Rose at April 5, 2004 08:44 AMAnyone who tries that in one of our alpine lakes will either jump out quickfast or freeze to death. That water is 32-degree snow-melt. Might as well snorkel off the coast of Alaska. It's warmer in August, but not my much. Maybe it's different down there in So-Cal.
I once headed up to Twin Lakes on the North Umpqua in mid-June, and the snow was still on the ground! As for the water, even in August, it's a bit too brisk for swimming. It'll be in the 90s, but that water's still a bit too cold to be in too long. So, we usually just went down to the rivers and creeks to jump off the waterfalls over and over again.
As for the cowboys, they're one of the reasons I really like Eastern Oregon. We have a lot of wannabe (and some genuine) cowboys in SW Oregon, but the Eastern Oregon ones are the real deal. If you haven't been to Steens Mountain in SE Oregon, it's definitely worth the long drive (even a long one from Roseburg). Lots of cowboys and some amazing vistas. Looking over the edge of the "mountain" at the Alvord Desert is amazing.
Posted by: Nathan at April 5, 2004 08:56 AMNice photos. You're lucky to live out there.
Posted by: eric at April 5, 2004 09:13 AM"Reflection on the Water" is upside down.
On purpose.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 5, 2004 09:23 AMMarkus Rose,
"I want to hear some mea culpa's right now."
Go to hell.
Andrew Sullivan is very smart about politics but he doesn't know military strategy at all. A larger force would require a substantially greater logistical tail and be much more difficult to command. The smaller force we are using is much easier to supply and direct than a giant force would be. By keeping things small, rational, effective action can be taken by commanders at the scene. Bigger is rarely better than smarter.
As for Anthony Cordesman, the "insufficient planning" argument fundamentally fails one key question: Is Iraq better off today than it was one year ago? Since a "sufficient" plan would have taken at least another year of Iraqi suffering and privation, what good is achieved by waiting?
Additionally, the President of the United States with the resolved support of the US Congress decided that allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power was an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States. Rather than wait for the threat to become imminent, the President decided to invade. Another key failure of the "planning" whinge is that it does not acknowledge the primacy of self-defense. It argues quality of life for Iraqi's in a discussion of survival of citizens of the United States.
Posted by: Patrick Lasswell at April 5, 2004 01:21 PMI am so tired of the "no plan" meme. Iraq is in chaos. You can't plan anti-chaos in advance. But you can react to it smartly if you're on the ground and flexible.
No "mea culpas" will be forthcoming. Markus, if you expected Iraq to instantly become Costa Rica that's your own fault. That was never in the cards.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 5, 2004 02:03 PMPatrick Lasswell -- you are missing my point, which has been argued at length by war supporters like Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden and Thomas Friedman for months now. The chaos and anarchy of post-Saadam Iraq, along with out knack and misfortune for making enemies out of the people we are trying to help, has made it impossible for our small force to take "rational, effective action."
There is not excuse for us not being ready, for this was a war that we did not need to start when we did. Not only was Iraq not an imminent threat, it was not going to become one for sometime. I agree that Blix and the UN inspectors were not a permanent solution to the Saadam problem, but once the United States got them back in as a result of THREATENING war, their continued presence would have precluded Iraq developoing WMD's. With them in, there was no reason that we could not have waited six months, or a year, or however long it took until adequate post-war plans were in place.
And it would not have even taken that long to prepare. The fact is that even if we had to invade in March 2003, for political reasons or whatever, we could have prepared effectively for post-war Iraq. All it would have taken would have been for the President to overrule the arrogant bastards in the Vice President's office, the Pentagon, and the American Enterprise Institute, and defer to the military itself, led by Tommy Franks, who wanted a much larger invading force; and to the State Department's Middle East experts, who drew up detailed plans for post-war Iraq, based on likely scenarios that have mostly come to pass. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, and the rest of the gang willfully ignored those plans, out of hubris, and because they were drawn up by State and didn't provide an Iraq led by Chalabi that was willing to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Posted by: Markus Rose at April 5, 2004 02:11 PMMarkus,
If I remember correctly, the rejected State Department plan called for the imposition of a new dictatorship in Iraq. I remember thinking, at the time, thank God that idiot plan was pitched over the side.
And how on Earth did we make "enemies of the people we are trying to help"? If we're talking about the mob in Fallujah, we were their enemies long ago, and we remain so because we overthrew their tribal patron and took away their priviledged place in the Baathist state.
As for the radical rioting Shi'ites under al-Sadr, I'd love to hear how it's America's fault that fanatical Islam still exists in the world. That would require a breatktaking conspiracy theory. But I think you know that already and are being sloppy.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 5, 2004 02:26 PMPatrick Laswell -
You wrote my thoughts on the subject of 'mea culpas', but much better than I would have expressed them.
Markus -
Go get me a mea culpa for OBL breathing after 1998, and North Korea's nuclear program, and ...well, no, there's nothing to debate about 'mea culpa' in Iraq beyond what Patrick already wrote.
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I'm frankly amazed at the content I've seen on Fallujah on the teeny bit of TV time I've had today. This is getting built up to be Anzio or something.
It's exactly the same thing. Well, except the enemy is a fragment of Iranian - supported Shia muslims attempting to execute a Somalia maneuver, and not the Hermann Goering Division dug in on high ground with the logistics support of a modern army. Except that with the exception of the Sunni triangle and spot violence in some major towns that were the traditional tribal or political roots for Hussein, the country is largely self administering now.
Except that at Anzio we set out by mistake to take an EASY way to fight one battle in a larger war (and nobody seemed to look at a map)...whereas before we ever went to Iraq we were told, our represenatives were told and then VOTED that the mission would be expensive, dangerous, and would require the will, the discipline, and most of all the support of the nation to ensure success.
I wish there were other, less damning, issues that could be politicized for Democratic political goals, but they seem to be so plumb out of winners that all they can do is hope for battlefield reverses they can somehow nurture into defeat...
Job growth looks promising. GDP is strengthening still. DOW is up and concensus is the summer will bring strength across manufacturing sectors.
Nope. No silver linings for the Kerry camp.
Joe Biden a war supporter? Seems a bit of a reach, but I'll need to do some reading up. All his public utterances I can put a finger on seem to be a little wide of that club. I'll look, though.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 5, 2004 02:54 PMMichael -- I'm not blaming America for the problems we are having there. I think we would be having FEWER problems with the Sunnis if we had more troops in their areas, and FEWER problems with the Shi'ites if we had planned post-war reconstruction better. It was in evitable we would make huge mistakes and have a big learning curve -- we simply didn't know very well what was going on inside Iraq after 44 years of Baathism. But I don't know why we would dismiss what little knowledge we did have from our Arab experts in the State Department. I'm having a hard time finding a copy of the State Department's Future of Iraq project online, but I think rather than calling for a dictatorship, it simply placed its emphasis on restroring order in the country. And I find it hard to see how the Pentagon's plans for installing Chalabi involved democratic processes either.
I'm curious what you think our biggest mistakes have been in Iraq so far?
Posted by: Markus Rose at April 5, 2004 03:04 PMMarkus: I'm curious what you think our biggest mistakes have been in Iraq so far?
I'd have to think about that.
Here's a mistake for you, from the pages of the Los Angeles Times. This one is (unsurprising to me) largely the State Department's fault.
WASHINGTON — Last summer, as Iraqis sweltered outside, the Coalition Provisional Authority met in the marbled corridors and air-conditioned offices of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces to hash out how to fund political parties. The State Department was adamant, insisting that the CPA should maintain "an even playing field" and should not favor one party over another. Parties affiliated with the Iraqi Governing Council's militant Islamists and liberal secularists should receive the same treatment. There should be no special consideration given to groups seeking to unite Iraqis rather than dividing them by ethnicity or sectarian affiliations.Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 5, 2004 03:27 PMThis may sound like the way to ensure fair elections. But while the CPA has maintained its neutrality, our adversaries have shown no such compunction.
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The CPA's evenhandedness may be well-intentioned, but to a society weaned on conspiracy theories, the United States' failure to support liberals and democrats signals support for the Islamists. Equal opportunity may exist in Washington, but not in Baghdad. Why, Iraqis ask, would the CPA ignore the influx of Iranian arms and money into southern Iraq if it had not struck some secret deal with Tehran or did not desire the resulting increase in militancy? Why would the Iranian border be largely unguarded a year after liberation?
Iraqi liberals are especially sensitive to signs of support for Shiite politician Abdelaziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose visit official Washington welcomed in January. Students affiliated with the Badr Corps, Hakim's militia, roam Basra University, forcing women to wear the veil. Signs proclaiming the supremacy of Hakim are affixed to doors across the university, and professors say they are afraid to remove them. In Nasiriya and Karbala, Iraqis lament they can no longer speak openly, lest they become the subject of retaliation by Iranian-funded gangs.
Michael -- I'd love to fund only good guys too, but perhaps the CPA decided that helping Abdelaziz Hakim was essential if he was not to turn against them. All sorts of moral dilemmas exist in the real world...it's messy. It appears in retrospect that disbanding Saadam's army and firing mid-level Baathist part members was a terrible thing to do, too.
TMjUtah -- the Pew poll linked below measures all people over 18, not just voters, but it does show a unmistakable slide for Bush from earlier measures using the same criteria. His lowest approval ratings ever:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=210
Regarding the Congressional authorization vote, our representatives voted to give Bush warmaking authority for a hundred different reasons. Some wanted war, others wanted to get inspectors back in, others just wanted win an election. Debate in October 2002 for such an important subject was short and pathetic.
Posted by: Markus Rose at April 5, 2004 04:15 PMGetting back on topic...
Some nice composition in those photos :)
Posted by: Scott Janssens at April 5, 2004 04:42 PMhttp://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact1
Above is a very good article in New Yorker by George Packer. Details Bidens views on the war, both before it started and after. Details Bush's lack of follow through on just about everything.
Posted by: Markus Rose at April 5, 2004 04:45 PMScott: Some nice composition in those photos :)
Thanks. But here's where I get to reveal how clueless I am.
What is composition? I know nothing of photography whatsoever.
I have a camera. I point it at stuff and click the button. That's all I know.
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at April 5, 2004 04:51 PMMarkus -
Well, if this was 1992-2000, we'd already have declared victory and come home.
The issue at hand is not a statistical snapshot of polling preferences. It is maintaining the resolve to finish what we set out to do. That's generally easier with a nation pulling toward a common goal but we do not have that situation now.
Shucks...Markus, I don't want to write a combative post by accident but I'm too tired too articulate effectively. I hate snarky unless it has a point, and you certainly have raised some legit issues.
I agree with MJT in his above on mistakes' but I do have a caveat; in my personal opinion people have been too ready to accept the word mistake in place of the more suitable word obstacle.
Nobody ever said it was going to be easy - least of all this administration. We were shooting Nazis in the street in occupied Germany until well into 1947. The Israelis average a proportional death count (to 9/11) at the hands of terrorists just shy of every two years or so...some years are better, some worse. Fifty years of that....with or without 'engagement' on our part.
Bush commented on Mr. Sadr by name at a post-speech press brief today. I heard the audio. I believe that Mr. Sadr better not count on a knock on the door and "We have a warrant". He's beyond any help an OJ jury could provide.
There's something unmistakeable about a Marine infrantry battalion making an unsocial call. Noisier for a start, and it just gets more exciting from that point on. I wish I was there.
In spite of the reflexive urge to do the Carthage Maneuver after the events of last weekend, we are identifying individuals responsible for discreet crimes. There are over two hundred Iraqis security police with our Marines in order to minimize confusion and needless conflict. This, in the midst of a war our opposition is intent on fighting (and marketing) as a religous jihad.
I'm pretty proud of that. I hope that the sentiments I see in my local community (granted, pretty far right) are shared widely across the nation. We cannot fight this like it was happening to someone else and even pretend to expect to accomplish our goals.
*My solution to a whole laundry list of problems would be to establish a Moon Colony for the express purpose of relocating the U.N.
NASA could build a huge mass-driver lift ship to make the move a one-shot deal. After suitable ceremony, the assembled diplomats of the U.N. would board, with every U.S. state department credentialed career officer carrying the bags up as a token of esteem.
Then we slam the hatch, light the fuze, and wave goodbye.
We'll build the ship for the trip up. They can come back just as soon as the Palestinian Authority Industrial Complex builds a vehicle.
Seems fair to me.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 5, 2004 04:55 PMbob71 -
That's sigil is a brand, as in branding iron. I couldn't find an online Oregon Brand Book but the search was fun just the same.
If I was younger and even more stupid, I'd go out on a limb and call it the rocking fish or rocking circle four two, but I just don't know.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 5, 2004 05:08 PMGreat photos, Michael. Oregon seems like the place for me: A little bit of everything, progressive culture and great places to fish.
About the news...
It goes a little something like this:
STAGE ONE: Bush repeatedly and needlessly antagonizes the overwhelmingly popular and democratically legitimate leader of the Iraqi people, the moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, despite the fact he's shown an abundant willingness to work with Coalition officials and despite that he has repeatedly called for patience and non-violence in dealing with American troops, by and in large due to his hostile views towards Israel. In a nutshell, he's an enemy of Israel but a friend to the United States, he's the only Iraqi with enough popular support to democratically rule over his fellow countrymen, and he's the best of what's around. Not good enough for the Bush Administration though, so he's marginalized.
STAGE TWO: Into the vaccum of power we've created steps the radically anti-democratic and anti-American cleric Moqtada Al Sadr who declares solidarity with Hezbollah and Hamas. Sadr starts printing a newspaper laced with inflammatory anti-American rhetoric. Despite the fact that the newspaper hasn't (reportedly) actually provoked a single attack on US forces or rival Iraqis, we decided to shut it down on the 28th of March. Sadr, as a result, instantly gets protrayed as a pious Muslim hero all across Iraq and throghout the Middle East. All hell breaks loose. We're now, thanks to the Bush Administration, left no choice but to further empower Sadr's cause by calling for his arrest.
STAGE THREE: Grand Ayatollah Sistani ONCE AGAIN calls for peace and non-violence in dealing with Coalition Forces, though, now marginalized, he is forced to rhetorically sympathize with the demonstrators as to hold on to his popular support with the Iraqi people. So, now instead of one broadly popular Iraqi leader we have two. Sistani has been, is being, and will continue to be our go-between with the Iraqi people so long as he is in power. The question now lies in whether or not he will remain in his position of democratic authority in light of Sadr's rise to prominence, a rise indirectly and inadvertently facilitated by the Bush Administration's foolhearty overreactions.
Yes, Michael, chaos cannot be controlled. But it can easily be managed or at least not made any worse than it already is. You know me, man. I'm not some kind of wild-eyed "blame America first" leftist. I call it like it is and I blame whoever is truly to blame, regardless. But we screwed this up, plain and simple.
It will take Sistani to diminish the impact of what we've enabled Sadr to do. What we do with Sadr can't be pretty, can't be easy, and will probably have unintended consequences. Thank President Bush for bringing us to this point.
Posted by: Grant McEntire at April 5, 2004 06:31 PMWonderful pictures, Michael. We share a love for Oregon's natural beauty (although how could you not?) Every day I'm able to see Hood from town is a day I count my blessings for being here.
Posted by: torridjoe at April 6, 2004 12:57 AMGEEZ! I buzzed in to the comments to see how everyone likes the GREAT photos and got too much political commentary. RELAX and ENJOY one of the things that preserves Michael's sanity! BREATHE EVERYONE!
Posted by: mouse at April 6, 2004 09:30 AMWow. I never knew that about chaos.
"But it can easily be managed or at least not made any worse than it already is."
I think there may be a wee bit of contradiction there, Grant. Oversimplification would be too generous a gimmee.
The most direct route to stop killers is to kill them. The process is unpleasant and expensive but it is the one sure way of making sure they don't kill any more. The only difference between al Qaeda's declaration of war on civilization and al Sadr's recent manifesto could be expressed as "holy moley, we don't even have to negotiate frequent flyer miles to attack them". Better we confront them on their ground with armed troops rather than waiting around for them to execute attacks at their discretion. Their displeasure at facing coordinated military retribution vice blowing up civilians with relative impunity is their problem.
Your Stage One is revisionist at best, dishonest at worst, too. "Democratically legitimate" how, Grant?
I guess I missed the election. He's a respected cleric, yes, but his authority is assumed by diktat; there's no mechanism available to his followers to influence his actions outside of apostasy. That's not democratic legitimacy - that's the pointy end of the definition of tribal backwardness that leaves entire populations at mercy of whatever personality rises to the positions of power within the system.
We pulled a knife out of the heart of a nation. Call it a vacuum if you want, but trying to parse this situation by capitalizing on the absence of elegant perfection at any given moment without acknowledging the necessity of time to make it work is has become a kind of Greek Chorus.
I am referring back to the other insurmountable obstacles that arose over the last couple of years of this war:
By engaging the enemy directly where they live we will enrage the Arab street, and will see bloody revolutin across moderate Islam.
The impossibility that we could eject the Taliban after the Soviets broke themselves over ten years in the mountains of Afghanistan.
The certain humanitarian and refugee crisis that was to come in Afghanistan if we acted to remove the Taliban.
The certain bloodbath we would face in Afghanistan by civil war between warlords.
The thousands of U.S. casulties we would sustain by WMD/the absence of readily located stocks of WMD.
The quagmire we had fallen into when the sandstorms rose on our sixth day of assaults into Iraq.
The slaughter in the streets of Baghdad that would rival the Soviet assault on Berlin.
The impossibility that Muslim cultures can embrace democracy ...except that the adoption of a constitutions recognising government by consent in Afghanistan and Iraq has already happened and at least in Afghanistan they are already self-administering.
Now we have a situation that somewhat relates back to a broad reference to the Arab street...except that it is more accurately described as an externally instigated effort aimed at fomenting unrest or civil war that can in no way benefit Iraqis but only Iran.
Or John Kerry. Certainly not our war aims, or the outlook for security of our troops or the Iraqi civilian population.
Here we go again. I wonder what the issue will be two weeks from now? What new damning, insurmountable failure MUST be acknowledged?
Don't see it happening that way in the end. By passing civil authority to an Iraqi government we avoid the babysitting trap we've been involved in in Kosovo for SEVEN or EIGHT years.
Funny how we never hear much about that situation, isn't it? Especially since we went there to protect muslims from genocide. Now the coin has flipped and you can't buy a column inch in a mainstream U.S. media outlet to discuss what we can do to "easily" manage that particular chaos.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 6, 2004 01:07 PM"TmjUtah: If I was younger and even more stupid, I'd go out on a limb and call it the rocking fish or rocking circle four two, but I just don't know."
Know this is late so you all probably won't read it or even care- I'm from Enterprise- glad to see such beautiful pictures of my home county! This is the story of the brand from the brand owner:
We acquired that brand when my grandfather Walter Brennan (old time movie and television star – 3 Oscars for Best Supporting Actor) bought Lightning Creek Ranch, down near Imnaha, in 1942. When we sold the ranch in 1978 or so after his death, we kept the brand for our family mostly for sentimental reasons. My brother does still use it on his horses.
The name of the brand is the O K quarter-circle. The quarter circle is technically supposed to be located more in the lower left quadrant, but for some reason over the years as Dad made new branding irons he sometimes located it more centrally as shown on the barn... In my understanding of brand hieroglyphics placed at the bottom there it would read “rocking” But he likes it better there. And he shortened and separated the arms of the K to make it more symmetrical and he told me because of how it showed up on the cows – the intersection of all those lines sort of blobbed together into an unidentifiable mess.
Since most people recognize the symbol for “rocking,” people often misread our brand. I’ve heard the forest service employees sometimes jokingly refer to it as “rocking roadkill” because the arms of the K look a little like legs on a bloated carcass. When he first put it up on the barn, the little windows (then white) made it look like a smiling pig, and I’ve heard people call it that too – even after we painted them red.
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