Tell me about going to catch the wild horses and getting Sorry.
We went to get our mares one day, and the mares weren't in the pasture. We searched and searched for them. We knew there were wild horses up in the Sweetwater mountains, and figured that they had taken our mares. There was a wild black stallion that had stolen all the horses. He was so quick that it was hard to see him, but we found that our horses were in this pack. When they were running, the stallion would lead the pack, but when they came to a fence, he
would go to the middle of the pack and the mares would break through the fence. We went up to the mountains again, and there was a corral that was up there. We went up (Les, DeVon, Errol, Grandpa, me), riding horses and driving the pickup to try to head them off and get them into the corral. It was sagebrush country, and it was a wild ride with lots of adrenaline. We got some of the horses from the wild band, but not all, and not the stallion because he was so wild and quick. We got our mares and a few others - seven or eight. One mare had a sorrel colt (later named Sorry), and we took the colt and our mares and turned the others loose.
Why did you take Sorry? Because he was no one's horse. He was just a colt that belonged to no one.
Why did you name him Sorry? Errol named him because he was a sorrel and sometimes he felt sorry that he had taken him into captivity - that Sorry couldn't run wild anymore. A few years later we found that the stallion had been shot. When Grandpa left the ranch, he took Snip and Sorry.
Who was Snip? One day, up in the mountains, there were about 200 wild horses. Someone in the area captured all these horses and brought them into the fairgrounds and had a wild horse sale. Grandpa bought Snip, a wild black stallion. He had a little white marking on his nose, and he was really spirited. Grandpa loved him because of that, so he kept Snip and Sorry when he sold the ranch, and took them to Utah with him. One winter Grandpa took the horses down to DeVon in Cedar City and DeVon was supposed to be caring for them. Snip died, and Grandpa thought that DeVon hadn't taken care of him well enough. When Grandpa died, DeVon still had property in Cedar City to keep Sorry on, but Mom got him instead.
Why did you get Sorry when Grandpa died? I rode Sorry. Sorry became my horse when all the brothers had left home. If Snip was available, he was ridden by someone else, not me, but I rode Sorry all the time. When Grandpa died, DeVon and I were the only ones that had property to keep Sorry on. Because he was my horse, I got Sorry when Grandpa died.
How did Sorry die? How old was he? When Sorry died, he was over 30. Sorry died from a heart attack while we were in Salt Lake during spring break. I wanted to keep the hide with the brand, but that part of the hide had decayed by the time we got back from Salt Lake. We buried Sorry in the pasture and tacked up some of the hide on the outhouse.
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