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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 765340" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>gbrumbelow, will do. I'm short on time today and I just remembered another local forklore story that happened at Gang Ranch.</p><p></p><p>There was a native cowboy by the name of Jiggs that was born at Gang Ranch, lived all his life there and rode there for many, many years. Jiggs was pretty short and not very heavy but his most noticeable characteristic was that although a native indian he was extremely light colored. I would venture to say that he looked most like an albino. Every part of him was much more white in color than a caucasian. There was a very slight pink color to his face from the years in the saddle. The other noticeable thing about him was that he had only one eye. When I knew him he was totally missing that eye but I understand that when the eye accident had first happened he wore a glass eye for many years.</p><p></p><p>He was staying alone in a cow camp cabin at what was called Blue Door Meadow which is quite a few miles from the headquarters. Gang Ranch hired a new young non-native cowboy that was pretty green and was totaly new to the country. The manager told this young cowboy where the cabin was and sent him on his way, horseback. He arrived at the cabin OK and moved in with Jiggs. Jiggs was wearing the glass eye at this time. When they went to bed that night they were in two small cots that were paralell in a small wing of the cabin. So whoever was sleeping in one cot looked right at the other sleeper. No one told the young cowboy about the glass eye but when they went to bed he began to notice that Jiggs while seemingly asleep continued to look at him with one eye. Jiggs was asleep but the glass eye just never closed. This unnerved the younger man not liking to be watched with one eye all night so much that he got up and moved his own cot around the corner to where he couldn't see the staring eye. He still couldn't go to sleep so every few minutes he would get out of bed and go around to see if he was still being watched. Of course he was. The next morning he saddled up, rode the 35 miles back to the headquarters, quit, and left. No one ever told him about Jiggs' condition and he never figured it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 765340, member: 14119"] gbrumbelow, will do. I'm short on time today and I just remembered another local forklore story that happened at Gang Ranch. There was a native cowboy by the name of Jiggs that was born at Gang Ranch, lived all his life there and rode there for many, many years. Jiggs was pretty short and not very heavy but his most noticeable characteristic was that although a native indian he was extremely light colored. I would venture to say that he looked most like an albino. Every part of him was much more white in color than a caucasian. There was a very slight pink color to his face from the years in the saddle. The other noticeable thing about him was that he had only one eye. When I knew him he was totally missing that eye but I understand that when the eye accident had first happened he wore a glass eye for many years. He was staying alone in a cow camp cabin at what was called Blue Door Meadow which is quite a few miles from the headquarters. Gang Ranch hired a new young non-native cowboy that was pretty green and was totaly new to the country. The manager told this young cowboy where the cabin was and sent him on his way, horseback. He arrived at the cabin OK and moved in with Jiggs. Jiggs was wearing the glass eye at this time. When they went to bed that night they were in two small cots that were paralell in a small wing of the cabin. So whoever was sleeping in one cot looked right at the other sleeper. No one told the young cowboy about the glass eye but when they went to bed he began to notice that Jiggs while seemingly asleep continued to look at him with one eye. Jiggs was asleep but the glass eye just never closed. This unnerved the younger man not liking to be watched with one eye all night so much that he got up and moved his own cot around the corner to where he couldn't see the staring eye. He still couldn't go to sleep so every few minutes he would get out of bed and go around to see if he was still being watched. Of course he was. The next morning he saddled up, rode the 35 miles back to the headquarters, quit, and left. No one ever told him about Jiggs' condition and he never figured it out. [/QUOTE]
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