Drabble by Kevin Fagan for September 18, 2014

Just how old did he expect the grand father to be.

I was trying to trace down our family tradition of being related to Davy Crockett. I was disappointed that I found no connection, but doggone if I didn’t discover that I’m related to Wyatt Earp!

Was it a prison bus?

Wyatt Earp was never shot and lived until 1929. His ashes are buried in the Jewish section of a cemetery outside San Francisco, next to his last wife, Josephine who was Jewish.

Talk about trivia.

Let’s all picture a 1915 bus.

Tax Man: And his last job was auditioning cowboys for the movies. Bat Masterson’s last job was boxing reporter in New York..Carl42SG: Easily. In WW-I, the French requisitioned Paris taxi cabs to rush troops to the front. The British used London buses for the same purpose.

Many families have 30 years or more between generations, his great-grandfather could have been born in the 1800s.

Admitting I am a bit older than Ralph:My father was born in a log cabin on the prairie in northwestern Minnesota. (1917)

My grandfather, born in 1877, traveled to MN from Norway.He walked the last few days to get to his brother-in-law’s cabin near the Red River of the North. (between the Ojibwe and Sioux.

There were some French trappers through the area before them, but no other European settlers.

My grandfather came west in a covered wagon, from Colorado to Oregon, and this was in the 20th century.