Muckracker Deone Benninghoven

Today’s episode is about Buckshot Burow who homesteaded the Tingle place.  Buckshot was a force of nature unto himself, and that’s probably why his more colorful name stuck and his given name, Raymond, was long forgotten by most.  Driven by a shotgun, moonshine, and the need to prove up on his rocky domain, few stepped foot on his property without an invitation or death wish.

Knowing where to start with Buckshot is as hard as trying to rope a wild horse.  His legacy cast a long shadow, and to this day, I’m still learning more.

For me, I saw beyond the broken-down man that I knew when I found one of his stills in a gully close to our ranch.

What follows after the break is what I pieced together from his daughters, what I found on the homestead that he lost to the Tingles for $17K & a host of self-inflicted ills, and what Emil & my second grandma Gladys told me.

I hope that you'll join me as I do my best in the telling of it.  Please, also, submit your questions and stories, as a daily opportunity, to move through this and on to creating a better place that rewards unity rather than hate.


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So how did celebrities and hangers on end up in Montana?  Today’s episode tells that story.  And, it comes from an unlikely place.  

My friend  Carol moved to the Bitterroot from Pasadena at 40 years old after having a heart attack while working on a Columbia Studios movie as a Set Designer.  Her story is as interesting as it is long.

During her days at Columbia Studios, she designed movie sets and did independent jobs with moguls such as Howard Hughes.  In fact, his last home was fully designed by Carol.

I hope that you'll join as I do my best in the telling of it.  Please, also, submit your questions and stories, as a daily opportunity, to move through this and on to creating a better place that rewards unity rather than hate.


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Today’s episode is about Bill Schreckengost.  Our very own Schrek.  Yep, I’m pretty sure that one of those Hollywood types that moved in on Victor, MT used Bill as inspiration, and no one will, probably, be able to tell me otherwise.

See, Bill was large and gentle.  Okay, he wasn’t green or had funnel ears, and I don’t remember him wearing a tunic with a belt, but he sometimes stumbled around.  And, his heart was alway in a good place.

And, let me tell you it was an experience to be on a snowmobile with him speeding across a clearcut!  Today’s episode is about one day that they talked me into riding with Shrek, and how that turned out.

I hope that you'll join as I do my best in the telling of it.  Please, also, submit your questions and stories, as a daily opportunity, to move through this and on to creating a better place that rewards unity rather than hate.


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Today’s episode is about Vivette Sacks.  Yep, that’s Pete Sacks’ wife.  And let me tell you, Vivette didn’t let much dust ever settle under her feet, and she had her hands in enough pies to keep her busy from sunup to sun down.

It’s hard to pick one story about Vivette.  Like Earl, she was an almost daily fixture in my life.  She came with a plate full or something this or that and she left with a hand full of something else for someone else that she was fixing to see.

Back on the ranch, we were on a party line for most of my childhood.  I can still remember picking up and hearing Vivette’s nasal tones chirping the daily news and goings about she’d picked up at Papa Bays.  And, boy did she know most everything about most everybody in the valley.


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Today’s episode is about Pete Sacks.  A rodeo-star, and gentle giant of my childhood, Pete flat out decided that our bad neighbors were going to be taught a lesson or know why.

It all started when Papa bought me my very own horse.  It was a tall lanky two-year old that was halter broke, and not much more.  I hadn’t grown accustomed to the idea of it, and it hadn’t grown accustomed to the idea of us, so we kept it in the lower corral as things settled.

Then, the tragedy of horrible - likely criminal - neighbors struck.  Of which, Pete Sacks took care of the worst of it.

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Today’s episode is about the visits to Earl Wolfe with Papa that I shan’t forget. 

Earl owned a 100 acre sheep ranch that was fronted by The Eastside Highway, that wasn’t really a highway. Where our school bus turned around close to Pete & Vivette Sacks’ place on North Birch Creek Road.

As I think about how much my Papa, Earl & Anne The Wolfe, and Pete & Vivette Sacks cared about and protected one another over the years, I’m reminded how important caring is in the days of COVID.

I hope that you'll join me and submit your questions and stories, as a daily opportunity, to move through this and on to creating a better place that rewards unity rather than hate.

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