20 X 30
oil on panel
SOLD $800
giclee canvas available My buddy got a limited entry draw on a California Bighorn in the  Similikameen Country right near the border, west of Charlie Russell's prairie country.  We made a fast 12 hour trip south and when we arrived, the trail head was jammed with empty  trucks and horse trailers.  The one guy that was around said we may as  well give up because guys had been up there scouting for a week.  Opening day was tomorrow.  We had a buckskin that we used as a  packhorse and started up anyway.

We were glassing for sheep the next a.m. just at timberline.  A guy  was coming out leading two empty saddle horses away across the valley.   When he finally reached us, he asked, "how much money you got on  ya?" We asked why and he stated that he could tell us where a herd of  sheep were as he was a guide and had just unloaded two hunters. He  said he was kidding and would tell us anyway!

A HUNDRED YARDS RIGHT BELOW US IN THE TIMBER...HE CLAIMS HE SAW THEM  FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY!!! and he rode off.

We looked at each other and wondered if he just wanted to see us  scramble downhill through a steep shale slide and thick timber.  Down  we went.

BANG! One shot and we had a legal ram and we are on our way out at  0700 hours on opening day.  That camel buckskin never drank the whole  trip. This sounds like a Charlie Russell story that has been updated.

The mountains down there are different from up north and this painting  reflects their profile...sawtooth.