Author to appear at Timber Lake Museum

  • LEFT: Diamond A cowboys in 1925 are identified as (l-r) John Padilla, Albert Lopez, Billy Skully (cook), (standing) Tuffy Ducheneaux, (?) and Ralph Staltenberg. The photo, from the collection donated to the Timber Lake Museum by the late Effie Lopez Hunt, is one of many that will be on display.
    LEFT: Diamond A cowboys in 1925 are identified as (l-r) John Padilla, Albert Lopez, Billy Skully (cook), (standing) Tuffy Ducheneaux, (?) and Ralph Staltenberg. The photo, from the collection donated to the Timber Lake Museum by the late Effie Lopez Hunt, is one of many that will be on display.
  • BELOW: Bob Rose, father of Danialle Rose, who wrote Wild Roses Grew on the Diamond A.
    BELOW: Bob Rose, father of Danialle Rose, who wrote Wild Roses Grew on the Diamond A.

    A book just released by Danialle Rose is part family story - part cowboy history. The author will present Wild Roses Grew on the Diamond A - The Lives and Times of Forest E. “Old Bob” and Lena Rose at the Timber Lake Museum on Sunday, March 15.

    Former Diamond A cowboys and those who knew them are invited to share stories about the days when the Diamond A ran thousands of head of cattle on the Cheye…