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<blockquote data-quote="CowboyBlue" data-source="post: 1589891" data-attributes="member: 16878"><p>My grandparents' names were Willie and Amy. Grandpa Willie was a hardscrabble, day-working, share-cropping, tenant-farming, survive-by-the-skin-of-our-teeth-and-the-Grace-of-God farmer and would-be cattleman during the Depression. He was known as a hard worker but could never catch a break, and with ten kids to feed, he never did get ahead in his bank account. </p><p></p><p>He came up with a brand, the running W-A , and marked all his tools with that. Daddy says he never had any cattle to brand with it. Then Daddy, in the truest form of the American Dream, went on to college and a more comfortable life. He bought his little place in the country and immediately registered the W-A as his brand as a way to pay tribute to his past. Sadly, Willie and Amy passed on and did not see Daddy's success.</p><p></p><p>Well, fast forward to the 1970's and my presence on the farm. When I saw the brand for the first time I did not understand its significance, and Daddy teasingly told me it stood for the "White Arrow Ranch." Well, even as a kid, I knew that was kind of self-aggrandizing for a little bitty cow outfit like ours, but it became one of our favorite jokes. So we have always called our little place "The White Arrow" though its legal name is the *family name* Family Farm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CowboyBlue, post: 1589891, member: 16878"] My grandparents' names were Willie and Amy. Grandpa Willie was a hardscrabble, day-working, share-cropping, tenant-farming, survive-by-the-skin-of-our-teeth-and-the-Grace-of-God farmer and would-be cattleman during the Depression. He was known as a hard worker but could never catch a break, and with ten kids to feed, he never did get ahead in his bank account. He came up with a brand, the running W-A , and marked all his tools with that. Daddy says he never had any cattle to brand with it. Then Daddy, in the truest form of the American Dream, went on to college and a more comfortable life. He bought his little place in the country and immediately registered the W-A as his brand as a way to pay tribute to his past. Sadly, Willie and Amy passed on and did not see Daddy's success. Well, fast forward to the 1970's and my presence on the farm. When I saw the brand for the first time I did not understand its significance, and Daddy teasingly told me it stood for the "White Arrow Ranch." Well, even as a kid, I knew that was kind of self-aggrandizing for a little bitty cow outfit like ours, but it became one of our favorite jokes. So we have always called our little place "The White Arrow" though its legal name is the *family name* Family Farm. [/QUOTE]
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