I grew up on a 100 pair cow/calf farm in the Blue Grass Valley near Monterey, Highland County, Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains. I made extra money when I was in high school by trapping, digging ginseng, and riding colts for neighbors. I sure wish I'd have known about Ray Hunt then. It would have saved me a lot of hide.
They graduated me from Highland High School in the spring of 1967 and I joined the US Navy that fall. I spent the next four y...