This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Meredith Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All I've heard about it was that a man named Purdy raised Fjord > Horses and when he died no one knew who was who in his herd. > > Where did the man live ... out West????? > Whose imports were his herd based on????? Pre-Jacobsen????? > Did he show, drive, pack, log or just breed????? I think he was in Colorado; most of the horses he bred ended up there, and in Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and BC. Apparently, his breeding stock was some of the "original" 1950's imports from Norway; not sure if he was the importer, or if he bought them from the Broadmore Hotel. He stood the American Foundation stallions Solvfast and Sanko. I believe that this was all in the 1960's; Jacobsen got into Fjords in the early 70's. One of the early Fjord Heralds had an article by Jacobsen on the history of Fjords in the US. I guess I need to dig it out, and see what he said about Purdy. But, yes, I'd really like to hear what some of the oldtimers in the breed remember/heard about Purdy. Then, there was Dave Parker, some of whose Fjords were registered as "sire Unknown, dam Unknown, breeder Unknown"---which I suspect means that he bought it at auction, and it looked like a Fjord.... (He is doubly of interest to me, as he was co-founder of the American Council of Spotted Asses, which my pinto donkey, Shadow, is registered with.) Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 30 mi SSE of San Francisco, Calif. -------
