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Welcome to the website about the Seagoing Cowboys! . Thank you for your patience while the site is under construction, and please come back again! . |
Copyright 2008 by Peggy Reiff Miller All rights reserved |
Site by Abbie L. Miller Hosted by WebHostingBuzz |
Site updated 1/28/10 |
They were students and farmers, bankers and preachers, laborers and teachers. They were Brethren, Mennonite, Catholic; Protestant, Amish, unchurched. Some sought adventure, some sought to serve people whose lives had been torn apart by war, some wanted to see firsthand what they had only read about or seen on film. |
I've been researching, writing about, and documenting the history of the seagoing cowboys since 2002; and I'm happy to be able to share this history with a wider audience here. If you have questions or comments as you read these pages, feel free to send me an email through the Contact the Author page. I will continue to add new information to the site as I process the materials I have collected. I invite you to come back often to see what's new. I hope you find this history as fascinating as I do. |
~Peggy Reiff Miller . |
Logo photo by Elmer J. Bowers |
Photo courtesy of Harold Zimmerman S.S. Alcee Fortier | Nov. 1945 |
Photo courtesy of Guy Buch S.S. Queens Victory | June 1946 |
Photo courtesy of Wilbur Stump S.S. Zona Gale | April 1946 |
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They were the seagoing cowboys: Men and boys who volunteered to tend the livestock shipped to war-devastated countries after World War II by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project. This website is dedicated to telling their story. In these pages, you will find information about the seagoing cowboys, the organizations for which they worked, their trips, and more. |