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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect hadn't arrived. But on Christmas morning, there it was leaning against the wall, all oiled and shining. Wintertime was the season for trapping muskrats, one of his favorite activities. This enterprise, had it paid better, would likely have prevented him from ever going into law. Dad in the company of Everett, Eldred Wright and George Horan would trudge through the snow on the banks of the Weber River to the slough area. There the boys would float the traps on a board in the river, baiting the trap with apples. The trap was then wired to the shore line. The muskrats would come to get the apples and ended up being caught by the traps lurking just below the surface of the water. Later they came back to check the traps and pull them in. In later years one of these same traps was put to use in the Uintah Circle garage to catch a predator which was trying to enter the garage to get the new baby chicks Steve was raising. Dad's ability to skin muskrats brought him great satisfaction. In fact, the pride which he took in teaching his own boys how to skin their quarry (weasels, rabbits, etc.) cannot be overstated. The refined techniques of skinning the entire animal from nose to tail without any longitudinal slicing entailed cutting around the animal's extremities and pulling the skin off like a sock, turning the whole thing inside out. The skin was then stretched over a board or U-shaped wire (like a croquet hoop) and treated with salt and other chemicals. Dad was seldom seen peeling an orange without reminiscing over the similarities between peeling an orange and skinning a muskrat. The family had some Jersey milk cows that they kept down in one of the fields close to home. The cows had to be milked each day. Some of the milk was put through the separator and the cream was sold to Brown Ice Cream Company in Ogden. John and Everett carried the cream can to the train every moming. However, some of the milk was taken to the house and kept in the round, shallow milk pans where the cream would separate to the top. They would use a skimmer (a flat scoop) to remove the cream from the top. It was forbidden for anyone to
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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