WIT AND WISDOM FROM OUR EARLY BREEDERS NELLIE AND ROY JACKSON
Nellie and Roy Jackson provide a fine example of the adage: “Retirement is Not for Everyone.”
When the Jacksons came to California in 1912, they brought a strong pioneer spirit, a toughness born of years in the rough life of Wyoming cattle country. Nellie was born in a log cabin on a mining claim in the Black Hills of South Dakota, then raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, and planned to become a teacher. But then she met Roy Jackson, an expert rider and winner of a twenty-dollar gold piece in a bucking horse contest.
They married in 1910. On a Wyoming cattle ranch, Roy worked
