Maggie's Farm

Oh you boys have been missing something very special!

http://www.oldmontana.com/print2.html

Stan Lynde was a bright young kid that crawled off the lonely homestead in MT in the mid 1950's. Made it to Chicago with a good idea for a cartoon strip. Lasted about 20 years and then the
"dirty Chicago boys' took it over. They tried to run it for themselves (greedy bastards) and in 4 years had destroyed it completely. But, years later, and with the help of the Good Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Lynde now own their own creation--Rick O'Shay and Hipshot. I have given you the link to "Happy Birthday Boss". This is a very famous cartoon strip. It shows the savy(not very naive) cowpuncher riding through town on Christmas eve. He passes the church where everyone is singing carols, then he goes past the houses where families are gathering and finally he comes out onto the eastern face of the MT front. There sitting on his horse with nothing to see but distance, horizon, and stars he says aloud:
"Happy birthday boss!"

Do what you can to buy a print, or a t shirt or anything that will help this proud, honest, hardworking couple that had only to survive the Chicago mafia in their prime and came home with a greater vision of what it is that Jesus asked for.

Oh Good! It was a tragedy that the Chicago Tribune treated him the way they did back then. But, you know boss--what goes around comes round! ;-)
So glad you remember this one Skook!

Hey Skook:

I can take you right to THAT place--right there where you can look out and see the universe! I know exactly where ol Hipshot was that night! Anytime you drop by our little homestead--I'll be happy to take you up there!