In this week's episode we sit down with Becky Serres, a retired employee of Ft. Robinson State Park in Crawford, Nebraska. We were at Ft. Robinson to film the Longhorn roundup and ran into Becky as she volunteered to saddle up her horse and help herd these 125 head of cattle to their winter pasture. The Ft. Robinson herd is one of the last few publicly-owned herds of the original style of longhorns remaining in the U.S., what we might call CTLR cattle.
Besides the longhorn herd, there is plenty of history at this park as well. In August 1873, the Red Cloud Agency was moved from the North Platte River to the White River, near what is now Crawford, Nebraska, in the northwest corner of the state. The following year in 1874, the area became a military camp at the agency site. From 1874 through 1948 it housed Native Americans to German POW's, was remount station during WWI and training dogs and pack animals for the Italy Theatre in WWII.
Becky Serres worked there for 30 years, until her retirement last year. She love's the history that her great state of Nebraska and especially that of Ft. Robinson. So, please sit back and enjoy our interview with Becky Serres.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Robinson
http://outdoornebraska.gov/fortrobinson/
https://stateparks.com/fort_robinson_state_park_in_nebraska.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier