The 1940’s (2)

Willow Springs Ranch & Dairy — The 1940s (Part II)

Horses for recreation and therapy, powerful bulls, a fawn named Bambi, and the local kids who learned ranch work each summer — these are the human stories that bring the 1940s to life.

Everyday life at Willow Springs Ranch — a quiet moment outside the ranch house with one of the horses. (Nuisance)
Dunloggin Golden Cross, herd sire of Willow Springs Ranch — powerful and temperamental.
Bambi — the orphaned fawn raised briefly at Willow Springs Ranch, as described by Veronica Arington.
Lila and Little Kenny during the Bear Creek freshman initiation — a moment remembered in Veronica’s memoir.

Veronica summed up the decade: “Anything could happen at Willow Springs and it generally did.”

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1940s — Part I
1940s — Part II
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