Les Dindons; (The Turkeys) Sometimes One Will Do What Must Be Done by Michael Ome Untiedt

  • Michael Ome Untiedt

  • Les Dindons; (The Turkeys) Sometimes One Will Do What Must Be Done
  • 30 x 24 in.
  • Frame Size:37.5 x 31.5 in.
  • Oil
  • Price:$12,150
  • Recently, an old high school friend took me on a tour of his ranch, in southeastern Colorado, founded by his family in 1884. It is a beautiful place with rolling prairies and spring fed stone-lined canyons, some twenty to twenty five sections in size. His grandmother was running the ranch during the Great Depression, a time that people there, in the heart of the Dust Bowl, referred to as the "Dirty Thirties". Their springs
    were drying up and the grass was rapidly disappearing. This steadfast ranch woman decided to sell all the cattle as the land could no longer support them. She took that money and purchased 5,000 turkeys and ran them free range on the depleted pastures, the turkeys thriving on millions of locust that had descended upon the ravaged ranch land. In order to protect the birds from wolf and coyote predators, her sons and hired men safe-herded the turkeys on horseback, adding a new meaning to "cowboy". These brave and innovative actions saved the ranch during the worst of hard times! This story reminds me that there is a lot more to the WEST than cowboys and gunfights. The WEST I grew up around was a lot more than high heeled boots and Stetson hats. It was more about surviving all the misfortune that could fall upon this vast land, enduring with hard work and luck! It was about grit in your teeth and spit in your eye. The shoot-em up Hollywood version of the OLD WEST was something that the people I was raised around had nothing to do with! I like to think I don't either. My painting inspiration was a painting created by Claude Monet in 1876 titled Les Dindons.
Les Dindons; (The Turkeys) Sometimes One Will Do What Must Be Done
Michael Ome Untiedt
Oil
30 x 24 in.      Framed: 37.5 x 31.5 in.
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