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ABOVE A special recognition award was presented to J. Evetts Haley, Jr. for his inspiration, creation and support of the Haley Library. Shown presenting Evetts with a tooled leather briefcase is his daughter, Mary Ann Haley Cosner, along with Board of Trustees President Brian McLaughlin. LEFT The Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library and History Center Board of Trustees (left to right): Robert Carr Vincent, Brian McLaughlin (president), Joe Sullivan, Jeff Haley, and Bill Carruth.

opportunity next year to set the weekend aside in mid-October and attend this wonderful fall event. Watch as each honoree’s own ranch ‘brand’ is represented through a red hot iron pressed against rough wood on the Haley Library fence, at the ‘Burning of the Brands’. Enjoy the friendships from the High Plains, as the ranch families come together once more to celebrate their own. Then take in all the deliciousness that the Rick Newcomb family provides, when they serve up a brisket dinner, authentically prepared and cooked

from a covered Chuck Wagon and Dutch Ovens, just like so many did before them. Nothing compares to the true, real-life stories told by these special historians, as they actually happened. The Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library's "Annual Fall Gatherin' Ranch Storytelling and Foy Proctor Memorial Cowman's Award of Honor" event is worth every moment. One that will pass all too quickly. Just like the stories of a day long ago, on a western plain...  MLM