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Show THE ZEPHYR/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2007 Herb Ringer's AMERICAN WEST ~ The Woman who would sit beneath her horse... near Virginia City, Nevada...1941. In the last years of Herb Ringer's life, he began to lose his eyesight from macular degeneration. There were many photographs he wanted to caption but blindness had stopped him. But Herb was convinced he would remember the photos, if only someone would describe them to him. So for days, Herb and I poured over the old pictures--I would describe the scene and almost always, he would remember. That was the case here---"Herb,” I said, “here are some photos of you and two girls on horseback, and in one picture, one of the girls is under her horse.” Herb smiled, “Yes...yes I remember her. Her name was Skippy and she was spending the summer in Virginia City. She bet me dinner that she could crawl under her horse's front legs. As the photo shows, I bought her a steak.” |